It's only a paradox because it ignores other's frame of reference.
"If I completely ignore these variables over here, this makes no sense! It's a paradox!" - Surprise? It is a fun thought exercise.
"from the photon's point of view"
From birth to death, the photon has always been traveling at the speed of light. If no time has ever elapsed for it, how could it have a "point of view"?
Let me phrase that a bit differently. If something "existed" for a time of exactly 0, then it never existed at all. From its own frame of reference, it never existed. This means the photon's frame of reference is "wrong".
I always wondered how that worked. If time didn't exist, how did the big-bang happen in the first place? An event cannot happen outside of time, yet an event was required to create time. --I am not a scientist.
That implies that for a given event, it must happen once for every possible frame of reference. Being an infinite frame of references, a given event must happen an infinite amount of times, meaning there is an infinite amount of energy as an event requires energy. It is not "happening now", we are just looking at delayed measurements of an event that happened a long time ago.
"You just don't understand relativity"
You don't understand that distance = rate * time
If time is 0, then you haven't moved. You're thinking about the wrong frame of reference's time. A photon may have a time of 0, but for most everything else, time cannot ever be 0.
Relative to yourself, you were moving either.
According to you, my car doesn't move, the Earth moves around me. Got it
And no, it won't bring you back to that proto-galaxy. In the zero seconds your travel took, the universe has expanded.
While technically correct, your logic is wrong. If you want to understand time relative to the proto-galaxy, then you must do all of your calculations from the proto-galaxy's frame of reference, not your own. So yes, it took 12.7bil years.
In the USA, we like farmers who make food so the rest of use lazy people don't starve. So the government runs electricity/etc to these rural folk.
I think all of the farmers should just conspire to jack up the prices of food to cover the cost of fiber roll out and see how everyone fairs. OMG anti-trust! Welcome to the free-market that you so much want. Ohh, wait.. you want the government to help you but not the farmers?
My city of 17k got a federal grant for installing fiber because we're classified as "rural". I think "rural" needs to be defined as I think the government is using something other than the dictionary. Not to say the USA and UK governments use the same definition, but it brings up the issue of different definitions.
There was an ISP in the USA that decided it was worth it to to run fiber to it's 30k customers, who were spread over 5,000 square miles or 13,000km2. That's an average of 6 people/mi2 or 2.3/km2.
How "rural" are these areas that they're not worth it?
Copy-infringement is a civil issue. I'm sure they could get a warrant for your computer equipment if bomb-threats/child-porn/etc happened from your IP as those are Federal crimes.
The mass doesn't just go "somewhere". Blackholes slowly dissipate over time as they give off energy in the form of gravity. Eventually a blackhole will just disapear. poof
Mass and energy are interchangeable. You have to stop thinking of a blackhole as matter and think of it as a big ball of energy.
Blackholes don't have infinite mass, they have infinite density.
That being said, what Trax3001BBS posted is really good. Netflix "Universe". There is A LOT. Keep using your imagination:p
I think the EUI-64 address is not meant to be routed on the internet, but to be used as a local "static" IP are MAC address are supposed to collide. It can/does happen though.
Either way, IPv6 is really meant to have many IP address per machine. Use DHCP/static for servers as you need to know their IP address anyway for DNS reasons.
This is not a problem if you are willing to dualboot.
You reboot your computer? I let mine runs for months at a time. What's the point of using a Linux VM if the host OS is Windows anyway? Might as well just use Windows.
Michael Larabel from Valve has confirmed that a Linux version of Steam is in the works with games like Left 4 Dead 2 running natively on Ubuntu 11.10 with AMD Catalysts drivers.
I have 30Mb with 100Mb burst, and I hit 100Mb all the time. Great for downloading from the cloud.
You should see my network usage when rebuilding a computer. Between Windows Updates, Steam, Diablo3, World of Warcraft, Eve Online, ~1GB of drivers, and watching Netflix while waiting, I can keep 30Mb constant for hours with lots of bursting into the 40-60 range(powerboost).
The coolest thing I have seen is the Streaming features of the new WoW client. I only need to download ~100MB. Since my cable has powerboost up to 100Mb, it only takes about 15-20 seconds before I can start playing WoW. Then the other 10GB of the game dynamically streams in while I play.
If you can't see the usefulness of 100Mb+, you're living under a rock.
Paying $40 for 5mbit is price gouging. I can get 25/25 for $50 here in the USA, and that's high compared to some places. That one Cali start-up ISP is offering 25/25 for $30 and 50/50 for $50 and 1Gb for $75.
The point about tech isn't how much bandwidth people use today, but how bandwidth could be used tomorrow. You get a chicken and the egg issue. Certain services require high bandwidth, like true 1080p BR quality streaming, or weekly cloud back-ups of your 1TB drive.
There are an infinite amount of possible services that we have not yet thought of because we don't have the bandwidth for them. The same thing happened with computers. Pffft, who needs an electronic calculator? Who needs an 8086? Who need a Pentium? Who needs a dual core cpu? We now have quad core 1.5ghz cpus with GPU acceleration and 2GB of ram, packed into a cell-phone.
Everything about our economy is "luxury". Cell phones are a "luxury", electricity is a "luxury", cars are a "luxury", education is a "luxury", access to health care is a "luxury". I'm pretty sure there is quite a bit of stuff we can get by without as we have for the past 100,000 years.
A nomad life-style is base-line, anything above is a "luxury".
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Windows 8 isn't just the worst product Microsoft has ever made - it's also bloatware
Funny how less memory, CPU, while booting faster turns into "bloatware". I would love to see your definition for the word.
It's only a paradox because it ignores other's frame of reference.
"If I completely ignore these variables over here, this makes no sense! It's a paradox!" - Surprise? It is a fun thought exercise.
"from the photon's point of view"
From birth to death, the photon has always been traveling at the speed of light. If no time has ever elapsed for it, how could it have a "point of view"?
Let me phrase that a bit differently. If something "existed" for a time of exactly 0, then it never existed at all. From its own frame of reference, it never existed. This means the photon's frame of reference is "wrong".
Have fun with this thought exercise.
I always wondered how that worked. If time didn't exist, how did the big-bang happen in the first place? An event cannot happen outside of time, yet an event was required to create time. --I am not a scientist.
That implies that for a given event, it must happen once for every possible frame of reference. Being an infinite frame of references, a given event must happen an infinite amount of times, meaning there is an infinite amount of energy as an event requires energy. It is not "happening now", we are just looking at delayed measurements of an event that happened a long time ago.
"You just don't understand relativity"
You don't understand that distance = rate * time
If time is 0, then you haven't moved. You're thinking about the wrong frame of reference's time. A photon may have a time of 0, but for most everything else, time cannot ever be 0.
According to you, my car doesn't move, the Earth moves around me. Got it
And no, it won't bring you back to that proto-galaxy. In the zero seconds your travel took, the universe has expanded.
While technically correct, your logic is wrong. If you want to understand time relative to the proto-galaxy, then you must do all of your calculations from the proto-galaxy's frame of reference, not your own. So yes, it took 12.7bil years.
Light-year is a distance, not an age
But when light goes the speed of light, the distance also becomes an age.
As much as I appreciate your first few corrections, your on-going determination to be a grammar-nazi is not appreciated.
Yeah, a poison trying to kill my-little-microbe-gut-friends(tm).
In the USA, we like farmers who make food so the rest of use lazy people don't starve. So the government runs electricity/etc to these rural folk.
I think all of the farmers should just conspire to jack up the prices of food to cover the cost of fiber roll out and see how everyone fairs. OMG anti-trust! Welcome to the free-market that you so much want. Ohh, wait.. you want the government to help you but not the farmers?
Society is just one big luxury. Back to nomads!
My city of 17k got a federal grant for installing fiber because we're classified as "rural". I think "rural" needs to be defined as I think the government is using something other than the dictionary. Not to say the USA and UK governments use the same definition, but it brings up the issue of different definitions.
There was an ISP in the USA that decided it was worth it to to run fiber to it's 30k customers, who were spread over 5,000 square miles or 13,000km2. That's an average of 6 people/mi2 or 2.3/km2.
How "rural" are these areas that they're not worth it?
This is how you sound to the average Joe.
"I see no reason why I, as a passenger, should not know how to build a 747 from scratch."
Your assigned IP's are logged for something like 6 months-2 years. Mistakes can be made, but most of the time, they shouldn't "accidentally" pick you.
Copy-infringement is a civil issue. I'm sure they could get a warrant for your computer equipment if bomb-threats/child-porn/etc happened from your IP as those are Federal crimes.
I am not a physicist
:p
The mass doesn't just go "somewhere". Blackholes slowly dissipate over time as they give off energy in the form of gravity. Eventually a blackhole will just disapear. poof
Mass and energy are interchangeable. You have to stop thinking of a blackhole as matter and think of it as a big ball of energy.
Blackholes don't have infinite mass, they have infinite density.
That being said, what Trax3001BBS posted is really good. Netflix "Universe". There is A LOT. Keep using your imagination
I think the EUI-64 address is not meant to be routed on the internet, but to be used as a local "static" IP are MAC address are supposed to collide. It can/does happen though.
Either way, IPv6 is really meant to have many IP address per machine. Use DHCP/static for servers as you need to know their IP address anyway for DNS reasons.
This is not a problem if you are willing to dualboot.
You reboot your computer? I let mine runs for months at a time. What's the point of using a Linux VM if the host OS is Windows anyway? Might as well just use Windows.
Michael Larabel from Valve has confirmed that a Linux version of Steam is in the works with games like Left 4 Dead 2 running natively on Ubuntu 11.10 with AMD Catalysts drivers.
I wonder how OBSD would compare to FBSD for firewall throughput using 10Gb interfaces and a 6 core Xeon.
U C-hash, I add pepper and salt, then U no C-hash.
Howling winds that sweep clockwise around the planet at up to 225 mph — though the atmosphere is so thin, it would only feel like 1 mph hour on Earth.
I have a feeling you wouldn't hear much of anything if the atmosphere was so thin that you could barely feel a "225 mph wind"
I have 30Mb with 100Mb burst, and I hit 100Mb all the time. Great for downloading from the cloud.
You should see my network usage when rebuilding a computer. Between Windows Updates, Steam, Diablo3, World of Warcraft, Eve Online, ~1GB of drivers, and watching Netflix while waiting, I can keep 30Mb constant for hours with lots of bursting into the 40-60 range(powerboost).
The coolest thing I have seen is the Streaming features of the new WoW client. I only need to download ~100MB. Since my cable has powerboost up to 100Mb, it only takes about 15-20 seconds before I can start playing WoW. Then the other 10GB of the game dynamically streams in while I play.
If you can't see the usefulness of 100Mb+, you're living under a rock.
Paying $40 for 5mbit is price gouging. I can get 25/25 for $50 here in the USA, and that's high compared to some places. That one Cali start-up ISP is offering 25/25 for $30 and 50/50 for $50 and 1Gb for $75.
The point about tech isn't how much bandwidth people use today, but how bandwidth could be used tomorrow. You get a chicken and the egg issue. Certain services require high bandwidth, like true 1080p BR quality streaming, or weekly cloud back-ups of your 1TB drive.
There are an infinite amount of possible services that we have not yet thought of because we don't have the bandwidth for them. The same thing happened with computers. Pffft, who needs an electronic calculator? Who needs an 8086? Who need a Pentium? Who needs a dual core cpu? We now have quad core 1.5ghz cpus with GPU acceleration and 2GB of ram, packed into a cell-phone.
Build it, and they will come.
Everything about our economy is "luxury". Cell phones are a "luxury", electricity is a "luxury", cars are a "luxury", education is a "luxury", access to health care is a "luxury".
I'm pretty sure there is quite a bit of stuff we can get by without as we have for the past 100,000 years.
A nomad life-style is base-line, anything above is a "luxury".
Income and property tax should be enough