Relativity is that time passes at different rates, depending on a number of factors (gravitional differences, differences in velocity, and differences in acceleration).
No, but it does hinder making search parameters for intelligent (or for that matter, non-intelligent) life. "Whatever God wants" is a lot larger scope than "whatever evolution dictates possible/rational."
You fail at relativity. Just because we haven't observed it yet, doesn't mean it hasn't happened.
ex: a pulse of light is shot from the Earth to the moon. The pulse takes ~12 seconds to arrive.
Two seconds before the pulse arrives, does someone on the moon say that the pulse hasn't been fired yet? If so, then consider a ship that travels at 0.9c (we'll say that it takes less than 0.01 second to accelerate 0.9c relative to an observer, from stationary to that observer) If this ship leaves at the same time as the beam is fired, it will arrive 1.3 seconds after the light pulse. By your logic, since the ship would arrive 1.3 seconds after it was seen to leave, it would thus be calculated as traveling at about 9x the speed of light.
Now, what can actually be said, is that if the observer hasn't seen the pulse, then it hasn't been set off any more than ~12 seconds ago, they cannot tell if it has been set off in the last 12 seconds.
Being disruptive is certainly worthy of being fired, and he was doing that, as has been stated ad-nausium here.
Also, as a computer scientist, he may very likely have worked with xenobiology stuff, particularly in SETI, so, yeah, it could also affect his work performance.
How old is the machine? I have a circa-vista Core2 Duo, and it loads up Windows 7 really fast (definitely faster than Linux did, when I was experimenting with it), and performs quite smoothly.
I haven't had to frequently reinstall windows since Windows 2000. What do you do to your boxes?
Direct X support, maybe not - but for 3D with OpenGL, with an nVidia card, FreeBSD does amazingly well (at least on par with XP ~2-3 years ago). Given that Linux support is usually better than FreeBSD support for 3D, I'd have to say, you might want to step away from the LSD.
Oh, and replacing text with buttons in the file browsing location bar is extremely irritating, I know it only takes half a second or so to get it to show text, but it's each time you access it, and that gets annoying quick.
The window borders are too large, (from vista, but still in 7) the input field color cant be set different from the window background color. The window borders and buttons are ugly and distracting.
Yeah, but it's amazing the number of self proclaimed tech experts I've known who think there are.
"I use a Mac, and have worked in the industry for 40 years, I know it's impossible for me to get a virus."
"I use a Mac and Chrome, I'll never get infected with anything."
"I use Linux, my system is impenetrable."
etc. etc.
I haven't had a malware problem on windows in about 13 years. Some of which I used IE (earlier times), some of which I used Firefox. This is a better record than any of those yutzes. The most important factor has and always will be the gray matter between the users ears.
Heh, I hadn't even thought about the phone aspect - low rez, yuck. I was mostly thinking about tablets, but even in the case of a phone:
Some of us don't have data caps. Even then, many phones can use WiFi... Which mitigates your throughput complaint.
Battery life could be an issue, varies by phone/tablet.
Both of my previous android phones allowed me to make calls while using apps. My current phone is WP7, so it isn't relevant to the conversation.
Play games while using X, or play games that use X? Guessing both. I expect the developers of this put each "window" on it's own screen, or set a number pf screens, and let the windows play around in there.
Yeah, I only really look at latency in games (where it is displayed in the game) or locally, I've never much had too look at it across the net otherwise.
After SSHing home:
$ ping 8.8.8.8 PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=56 time=31.735 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=26.125 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=27.463 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=23.671 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=24.563 ms
Guess it is better than I thought:-)
Still, both ends matter. And, I guess my metrics are a bit outdated.
Same reason as SSH - it's a convenient platform. It'd be nice, if I needed to do something work related (or access something on my home machine) to have an available X session.
Yes, but ISPs can make a big difference, as I mentioned on another post, I played an MMO 8 years or so ago, where the other players (pretty much all using TW, a few Comcast I think), complained of server lag at certain times, and experienced 500-1500ms latency. With my DSL connection, I was getting 75-100ms latency at the same time - not server lag. Some users were farther from the west coast servers than me, most were closer, pretty much all of them had higher-throughput connections than me. Local maintenance of the network, and load handling can make a huge impact. At the time (I suspect it isn't nearly as bad now), these companies didn't handle their loads very well.
I had AT&T's DSL and did some gaming. I live in Ohio, and the servers were west coast. I typically had 75-100ms latency when the TimeWarner users were complaining about server lag and 500-1500mls latency. When they were down to 150-200ms (good for them), I typically hovered around 50-60ms.
This was 7-8 years ago.
IMHO, 300ms is unacceptable.
My current cable gives me around 100ms average latency with SW:TOR.
To me, "acceptable latency" comes with the type of service, and the distance to the target. This covers my views with servers in the continental US: With my previous DSL experience, I would be pissed with a DSL service that had 100ms or more latency except at the busy hours With cable, I expect upwards of 200ms, but the average should be closer to 100-150ms. With WiFi in the equation, I'd add a bit more, and be surprised if it were less than +50ms, but would still be pissed if it were more than +100ms.
Mind you though, this is from anecdotal experience, YMMV.
After ditching the first guy, I did use a broker, and I didn't get any more pressure. I don't like the company I am with. Their political campaign contributions in Ohio have really helped hurt the state, but that's another matter... didn't know it at the time.
Anyway, I already had the house picked out too (by the time I talked to the first loan officer). Didn't stop him.
My sister is a redhead with low pain tolerance also.
It's probably a linked gene, which is also mutated, which would mean, that redheads are more likely to have reduced pain thresholds compared to others.
Yeah, but he had more than enough info to know I wouldn't be able to pay for it, and in the end, he'd be screwing over both myself, and the group the mortgage got sold to.
The difference is, most of those groups are shot-gun advertising, a lot of people CAN afford what they are selling. Also, if you screw up on many of those, compared to a house, it is an annoyance, not a catastrophe.
not knowledgeable or experienced enough might be better terminology. I suspect most people are smart enough, but not motivated enough to spend the requisite time on the task of understanding who/what they are voting for and the ramifications of an arbitrary given agenda.
Also, what is best? You could have two very competent groups, each able to achieve a goal, but in general, there is no firm consensus as to which goal is best. Ex: A stable economic system where: A) There is more "freedom to move up", but the wealth ratio between the wealthiest and least wealthy groups is 10^5 or more. B) There is less "freedom to move up" (mostly due to the top of the ladder being lot lower and the bottom being a bit higher), but the ratio between the most and least wealthy is now only 10^2 or 10^3.
Even if they have the same average per-capita income, and both are sustainable, there are people who would prefer A to B (and people who would prefer B to A).
Personal responsibility is important (it certainly kept me out of a mess in this regard), but when people from every side are trying to trick you from every side, you eventually slip. These people know your financial situation, - they see your records, and in most cases, are probably better trained to understand it than you. Yet they try to put you in a situation that is above your head, and screws whoever they sell the loan to, for their own profit. Yeah, they should be held responsible as well, not instead of.
It's a bit beyond the magnitude of a super-sized meal, a $20 stack of disks, or a V8 car...
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Nope, wrong.
Relativity is that time passes at different rates, depending on a number of factors (gravitional differences, differences in velocity, and differences in acceleration).
No to both.
If it hadn't happened yet, then it would be much longer until you could view it.
No, but it does hinder making search parameters for intelligent (or for that matter, non-intelligent) life. "Whatever God wants" is a lot larger scope than "whatever evolution dictates possible/rational."
You fail at relativity. Just because we haven't observed it yet, doesn't mean it hasn't happened.
ex: a pulse of light is shot from the Earth to the moon. The pulse takes ~12 seconds to arrive.
Two seconds before the pulse arrives, does someone on the moon say that the pulse hasn't been fired yet?
If so, then consider a ship that travels at 0.9c (we'll say that it takes less than 0.01 second to accelerate 0.9c relative to an observer, from stationary to that observer)
If this ship leaves at the same time as the beam is fired, it will arrive 1.3 seconds after the light pulse.
By your logic, since the ship would arrive 1.3 seconds after it was seen to leave, it would thus be calculated as traveling at about 9x the speed of light.
Now, what can actually be said, is that if the observer hasn't seen the pulse, then it hasn't been set off any more than ~12 seconds ago, they cannot tell if it has been set off in the last 12 seconds.
Being disruptive is certainly worthy of being fired, and he was doing that, as has been stated ad-nausium here.
Also, as a computer scientist, he may very likely have worked with xenobiology stuff, particularly in SETI, so, yeah, it could also affect his work performance.
o.O Core 2 Duo + 2GB mem + 320GB disk here...
Heh, that's my experience with a Mac, that's why I hackintoshed a computer - I don't pay the overhead, but I can familiarize myself with the OS.
How old is the machine? I have a circa-vista Core2 Duo, and it loads up Windows 7 really fast (definitely faster than Linux did, when I was experimenting with it), and performs quite smoothly.
I haven't had to frequently reinstall windows since Windows 2000. What do you do to your boxes?
Direct X support, maybe not - but for 3D with OpenGL, with an nVidia card, FreeBSD does amazingly well (at least on par with XP ~2-3 years ago). Given that Linux support is usually better than FreeBSD support for 3D, I'd have to say, you might want to step away from the LSD.
Oh, and replacing text with buttons in the file browsing location bar is extremely irritating, I know it only takes half a second or so to get it to show text, but it's each time you access it, and that gets annoying quick.
The window borders are too large, (from vista, but still in 7) the input field color cant be set different from the window background color. The window borders and buttons are ugly and distracting.
Yeah, but it's amazing the number of self proclaimed tech experts I've known who think there are.
"I use a Mac, and have worked in the industry for 40 years, I know it's impossible for me to get a virus."
"I use a Mac and Chrome, I'll never get infected with anything."
"I use Linux, my system is impenetrable."
etc. etc.
I haven't had a malware problem on windows in about 13 years. Some of which I used IE (earlier times), some of which I used Firefox. This is a better record than any of those yutzes. The most important factor has and always will be the gray matter between the users ears.
You mean it tastes like glass? But I don't want to have my throat sliced up by broken glass!
That being said, anything that can keep me in FreeBSD more, and Windows 7 less, without losing the programs I like, is a good thing.
Read the post that was in reply to again. Note why I would mention a communist state...
Why is the North Korea of text editors, the most patriotic?
Heh, I hadn't even thought about the phone aspect - low rez, yuck. I was mostly thinking about tablets, but even in the case of a phone:
Some of us don't have data caps. Even then, many phones can use WiFi... Which mitigates your throughput complaint.
Battery life could be an issue, varies by phone/tablet.
Both of my previous android phones allowed me to make calls while using apps. My current phone is WP7, so it isn't relevant to the conversation.
Play games while using X, or play games that use X? Guessing both. I expect the developers of this put each "window" on it's own screen, or set a number pf screens, and let the windows play around in there.
Yeah, I only really look at latency in games (where it is displayed in the game) or locally, I've never much had too look at it across the net otherwise.
After SSHing home:
$ ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=56 time=31.735 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=26.125 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=27.463 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=23.671 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=24.563 ms
Guess it is better than I thought :-)
Still, both ends matter. And, I guess my metrics are a bit outdated.
Millions of androids were oblivious... ... and continued doing what they were previously doing.
It's a niche tool, but for those of us who are in that niche, it's nice to see it available.
Same reason as SSH - it's a convenient platform. It'd be nice, if I needed to do something work related (or access something on my home machine) to have an available X session.
Yes, but ISPs can make a big difference, as I mentioned on another post, I played an MMO 8 years or so ago, where the other players (pretty much all using TW, a few Comcast I think), complained of server lag at certain times, and experienced 500-1500ms latency. With my DSL connection, I was getting 75-100ms latency at the same time - not server lag. Some users were farther from the west coast servers than me, most were closer, pretty much all of them had higher-throughput connections than me. Local maintenance of the network, and load handling can make a huge impact. At the time (I suspect it isn't nearly as bad now), these companies didn't handle their loads very well.
I had AT&T's DSL and did some gaming. I live in Ohio, and the servers were west coast. I typically had 75-100ms latency when the TimeWarner users were complaining about server lag and 500-1500mls latency. When they were down to 150-200ms (good for them), I typically hovered around 50-60ms.
This was 7-8 years ago.
IMHO, 300ms is unacceptable.
My current cable gives me around 100ms average latency with SW:TOR.
To me, "acceptable latency" comes with the type of service, and the distance to the target. This covers my views with servers in the continental US:
With my previous DSL experience, I would be pissed with a DSL service that had 100ms or more latency except at the busy hours
With cable, I expect upwards of 200ms, but the average should be closer to 100-150ms.
With WiFi in the equation, I'd add a bit more, and be surprised if it were less than +50ms, but would still be pissed if it were more than +100ms.
Mind you though, this is from anecdotal experience, YMMV.
After ditching the first guy, I did use a broker, and I didn't get any more pressure. I don't like the company I am with. Their political campaign contributions in Ohio have really helped hurt the state, but that's another matter... didn't know it at the time.
Anyway, I already had the house picked out too (by the time I talked to the first loan officer). Didn't stop him.
My sister is a redhead with low pain tolerance also.
It's probably a linked gene, which is also mutated, which would mean, that redheads are more likely to have reduced pain thresholds compared to others.
Yeah, but he had more than enough info to know I wouldn't be able to pay for it, and in the end, he'd be screwing over both myself, and the group the mortgage got sold to.
The difference is, most of those groups are shot-gun advertising, a lot of people CAN afford what they are selling. Also, if you screw up on many of those, compared to a house, it is an annoyance, not a catastrophe.
not knowledgeable or experienced enough might be better terminology. I suspect most people are smart enough, but not motivated enough to spend the requisite time on the task of understanding who/what they are voting for and the ramifications of an arbitrary given agenda.
Also, what is best? You could have two very competent groups, each able to achieve a goal, but in general, there is no firm consensus as to which goal is best. Ex:
A stable economic system where:
A) There is more "freedom to move up", but the wealth ratio between the wealthiest and least wealthy groups is 10^5 or more.
B) There is less "freedom to move up" (mostly due to the top of the ladder being lot lower and the bottom being a bit higher), but the ratio between the most and least wealthy is now only 10^2 or 10^3.
Even if they have the same average per-capita income, and both are sustainable, there are people who would prefer A to B (and people who would prefer B to A).
Personal responsibility is important (it certainly kept me out of a mess in this regard), but when people from every side are trying to trick you from every side, you eventually slip. These people know your financial situation, - they see your records, and in most cases, are probably better trained to understand it than you. Yet they try to put you in a situation that is above your head, and screws whoever they sell the loan to, for their own profit. Yeah, they should be held responsible as well, not instead of.
It's a bit beyond the magnitude of a super-sized meal, a $20 stack of disks, or a V8 car...