No... the Dinosaurs were just fine at slapping mosquitoes, it's just that jerk Adam liked to play practical jokes and would put mosquitoes on their beds at night.
So how would we be able to tell if our universe was a simulation? Whitworth says that if reality was to do something that information processing cannot, then it cannot be virtual. But he falls short of suggesting what this might be.
This is the failure of reconciling the metaphysical with the physical. I agree with you completely. There is no way for us to remove ourselves from the universe at large to observe it. Whitworth is not a scientist when he speaks of this. He is a philosopher exploring metaphysics and ontology.
I can come up with a number of theories about reality myself, and without being able to experiment on them they are just as valid. Therefore I propose that the universe we experience is really just the eye of an aether system. Once you get beyond the aether, it really is turtles all the way down. That's just as valid, without relevant experimentation, as the universe being a vr sim. Metaphysics is cool and all, but just don't call it science or its practitioners scientists.
Didn't you read the article! The primary focus is not "to increase market share" against MySQL and Apache as the Netcraft fud would have you believe. The real reason is this is a surreptitious physical-user based fix to sending out too many cancel allow dialogs. Microsoft completely misjudged the boxes functionality and popularity, which resulted in masses of dialog boxes being excessively consumed. Microsoft was getting so many bug reports about exhausted screen space from all the boxes that they had to something. This is just another case of MS providing relief to customers who are unable to responsibly control their MS lust, in this case for cancel allow dialogs.
I swear it was in the article. Why are you all looking at me? What?!
Who's talking about killing journalism for profit? Nobody. The newspaper's days as distribution model are fading. Notice that people still subscribe to the New York Times online. The fact a lot of papers will be put out of business. A lot of local newspapers are flat out cruft. They reprint syndicated columnists and give out a minimum of news about the area. This change is good. I'm not one that enjoys journalism for profit, as I get most of my news from aggregators like here or not-for-profit stuff like PBS and NPR. But, I see the online market changing things in two ways. It will move the cruft, like high school sports scores and the minutia about social events, about an area online where it can be distributed more efficiently and it doesn't waste the resources that printing it up does. The online market is also breaking the hold that papers have on informing an area. With the online news market we essentially have competition. The most insightful commentary and the most useful reporting wins.
People will still pay for news. We're just streamlining and improving the process. I can't think of any reason why anyone would want to continue the local information monopolies that newspapers have on a community. There exists an elite club of newspapers, and busting up their model is going to force them to become more responsible about their reporting.
It's ironic really. The Internet is the greatest hearth for cruft sites when it comes to pop culture, but on the other hand it's killing the printing of cruft.
Maxwell-Boltzman probably wouldn't apply anyways, because at >10^32 K it would be pretty hard to be in thermal equilibrium. As for your question... maybe I just don't understand the physics enough, but wouldn't temperature still be defined as the average of atomic vibration, in this case the very large atomic vibrations.
That's how it has always been. MBA's and lawyers are the company's greatest weakness. They are the cause of the downfall of the company in the 80's. If Apple isn't careful, they will just turn into another abusive corporation sucking money from it's customers rather than providing innovative technology.
You're onto something there. Their smiley face would probably not be anthromorphic, as they probably don't look like humans. If I were a super advance civilization that could move stars and such, I would move black holes around me as to cloak my existence. If I have the power to move stars, there is a good chance that someone else does and could use it to blow me up.
I say we start looking for constellations that resemble our imaginations of aliens. After that we look for black hole clusters and then wipe out those galactic hide and seek playing wimps for being galactic hide and seek playing wimps. You can move stars have some courage!
But do they have senses of humor and are they able to understand when their culture isn't actually the point of the post, but instead just a detail in a parody of a very common practice on slashdot.
I think so. Gotta a friend from Stavanger. He's an ok guy and pretty sharp, apparently sharper and a little more lighthearted than/. mods.
Spot on about speaking better english than Americans though. My first reply is proof positive.
But do they have senses of humor and can understand when their culture is actually the point of the post, but instead just a detail in a parody of a very common practice on slashdot.
I think so. Gotta a friend from Stavanger. He's an ok guy and pretty sharp, apparently sharper and a little more lighthearted than/. mods.
Not to karma whore or anything... but the least you think an editor would do is provide the bokmal translation. This proves it... Slashdot hates Norwegian people. Again, not to karma whore:
" enhver burde ha likeverdig adgang å offentligheten beskjed : Åpen standarder bli tvangsmessig innen regjeringen. " regjeringen har bestemte det alle beskjed opp på regjeringen websites burde være anvendelig i fri luft formatter HTML PDF eller ODF. Med dette bestemmelse tidene når offentligheten dokumenter der hvor bare anvendelig inne Microsoft's Ord - formatter kommer å slutt. 'Everybody burde ha likeverdig adgang å offentligheten beskjed. Fra 2009 det borger ville være i stand til valgte hvilke programvare å bruk for at få innpass å offentligheten beskjed. Det regjeringen bestemmelse ville likeledes gjøre bedre konkurransen imellom leverandør av kontor søknadene sier DEN - minister Heidi Praktfull Røys. " denne er avgjørelsen av regjeringen : HTML burde være det primære formatter for forlagsartikkel av offentligheten beskjed på Sykehuslege. PDF (1.4 eller nyere , eller PDF / EN ISO 19005-1) er tvangsmessig når du ønske å gjemme originalen layout av en dokumentet. ODF ISO IEC 26300) må av sted anvendt når utgiveren dokumenter det er mente å bli forandret etter dataoverfører eg. blankett det er å bli fylte inne av brukeren. "- Norge Ministerium av Regjeringen Administrasjon og Forbedring "
It is basically useless to run a search engine in China. If the search engine has to be responsible for ensuring that content it brings up is in compliance with each every law, sane or crazy, then the data set it opens up to the user will essentially be hacked into one tiny piece. This is perfect for big content and information repressing regimes. The internet is their biggest fear, a decentralized, cheap means of distributing information. If you can narrow its scope, as big content or an information repressing regime, you win.
"By confirming that Yahoo China's service violates copyright under new Chinese laws, the Beijing court has effectively set the standard for Internet companies throughout the country."
Translation: "The government has staked its claim. It will control the flow of information on the web across the board. This is just a small step."
You sir are a genius. No really I mean it. I wish there were more people like you that put the ad nauseum hashed debate about warming or climate change or whatever to the side. There is a legitimate argument for a lot of different viewpoints about the climate. The area where there is no room for different viewpoints is on the limited nature of fossil energy resources. Whether or not you buy into anthropogenic climate change or not, you should support more efficient non-fossil fuel energy sources. Diversity is the key. For two long we've all of our eggs in one basket, and it hasn't been until recently that we've realized that come back and bite us. Cheap solar like this could go a long way to broadening available energy as we start to see the real issue with energy arise, namely how do we support a rapidly industrializing third world and a world population that will reach nine billion in fifty years. Quantity is a real problem. We've built our economies on cheap energy, and now we're gonna have to work to keep that going.
All of which begs the question: Just where is all this innovation going? To Clippy?
Microsoft has turned the business of chair throwing into an art. Nobody does it better than them. Why just a few short years ago, we were lucky to launch chairs more than a few meters. Even then they usually ended in a destructive fireball. Then came that luminary Ballmer. He changed everything. Next time you stand in awe of perfect chair-to-low-earth-orbit (CLEO, another MS patent), you thank Microsoft.
was when he got a hold of anti-reality distortion field unit. I hear got a look at Jobs' real face. All I can say is... he's lucky he's not dead. Count your blessings and move on man.
I'll say it sounds promising. A major hindrance to using alternative energy (eg solar), which is what most want to move to, to produce electricity is storing the power. The sun and wind, among other things, can't exactly be controlled manually to produce power on a whim. Inefficient storing is a major drawback. Any advance that improves storage capacity (for any platform) by an order of magnitude is promising to say the least. The article barely touched on how important this could be.
... of the morning, so I'll bite. I'll admit that I only got as far as reading the abstract, so sue me. I really don't see the need for a journal published paper to dissect the situation. Sony got caught up in the zeitgeist over Napster and how digital distribution was going to destroy their business model, just like how Hollywood freaked over the VCR. I think paranoia and utter indifference to the customer pretty much sums up the whole situation. Other than that, I don't see the need to dredge up a two-year old incident with a published paper, other than it's pretty late.
WP says they are a 501(c)(3), meaning they solely exist to promote science. So any donation to them would be a tax exemption just like a regular charity.
Wow an OS from a hated megacorp has majors upon release. Said issues are hashed and rehashed for the next year. A movement begins to move back to hated megacorp's old OS. Some jerk posts a weak summarization of issues with the new OS filled with lame smugness.
That's fricking hilarious!
With the topical freshness of this guy's material, he needs to be on late night competing with Leno.
AHA! We all knew it. We saw it coming. They laughed at us yes... YES!! Well, now THEY'LL be the ones to laugh at... ahhhhahhhahahahahhahhahaa!
Tinfoil hat brethren, I say we unite and add tinfoil earmuffs to the wardrobe. NAY!! The WHOLE wardrobe must be tinfoil. Only then will you be SAFE FROM THIS INVASION!!
I thought that's exactly what I said. He was opening up files that may be incriminating, but otherwise not related to the offense he was being held for and unknown to the government. Sorry if I confused anybody.
No, it's a good day that the fifth amendment is being upheld like this, especially in a child pornography case. The fact that there wasn't an immediate 20-life sentence when the guy said something to the effect of "i may have transferred child pornography." Child porn is despicable, but it's a boogeyman that has been used in numerous countries to get heavy-handed law enforcement policies legislated into being. That movement has been set back by this ruling. On top of that, this ruling bodes well for electronic encryption. I can't see why you would be sad that the 5th amendment was "questioned" like this. Be happy a judge upheld it. Oh that's right... I forgot whining and crying about "teh police state" is so much more important and helpful than supporting people, like this judge in Vermont, that actually stand up for individual liberties. Sorry man, really.
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Hey go for it, we should all support going into space as this planet is screwed.
Everyone knows that in Soviet Russia, mother nature screws you... so that sort of environmentalist talk is uncalled for.
No... the Dinosaurs were just fine at slapping mosquitoes, it's just that jerk Adam liked to play practical jokes and would put mosquitoes on their beds at night.
So how would we be able to tell if our universe was a simulation? Whitworth says that if reality was to do something that information processing cannot, then it cannot be virtual. But he falls short of suggesting what this might be.
This is the failure of reconciling the metaphysical with the physical. I agree with you completely. There is no way for us to remove ourselves from the universe at large to observe it. Whitworth is not a scientist when he speaks of this. He is a philosopher exploring metaphysics and ontology.
I can come up with a number of theories about reality myself, and without being able to experiment on them they are just as valid. Therefore I propose that the universe we experience is really just the eye of an aether system. Once you get beyond the aether, it really is turtles all the way down. That's just as valid, without relevant experimentation, as the universe being a vr sim. Metaphysics is cool and all, but just don't call it science or its practitioners scientists.
Didn't you read the article! The primary focus is not "to increase market share" against MySQL and Apache as the Netcraft fud would have you believe. The real reason is this is a surreptitious physical-user based fix to sending out too many cancel allow dialogs. Microsoft completely misjudged the boxes functionality and popularity, which resulted in masses of dialog boxes being excessively consumed. Microsoft was getting so many bug reports about exhausted screen space from all the boxes that they had to something. This is just another case of MS providing relief to customers who are unable to responsibly control their MS lust, in this case for cancel allow dialogs.
I swear it was in the article. Why are you all looking at me? What?!
A lot of stuff like, insane robot killing machines let loose on an unsuspecting population. You don't have an imagination at all dude!
Wait... what's that... it was supposed to be humorously rhetorical... still you're not getting an apology!
Who's talking about killing journalism for profit? Nobody. The newspaper's days as distribution model are fading. Notice that people still subscribe to the New York Times online. The fact a lot of papers will be put out of business. A lot of local newspapers are flat out cruft. They reprint syndicated columnists and give out a minimum of news about the area. This change is good. I'm not one that enjoys journalism for profit, as I get most of my news from aggregators like here or not-for-profit stuff like PBS and NPR. But, I see the online market changing things in two ways. It will move the cruft, like high school sports scores and the minutia about social events, about an area online where it can be distributed more efficiently and it doesn't waste the resources that printing it up does. The online market is also breaking the hold that papers have on informing an area. With the online news market we essentially have competition. The most insightful commentary and the most useful reporting wins.
People will still pay for news. We're just streamlining and improving the process. I can't think of any reason why anyone would want to continue the local information monopolies that newspapers have on a community. There exists an elite club of newspapers, and busting up their model is going to force them to become more responsible about their reporting.
It's ironic really. The Internet is the greatest hearth for cruft sites when it comes to pop culture, but on the other hand it's killing the printing of cruft.
Maxwell-Boltzman probably wouldn't apply anyways, because at >10^32 K it would be pretty hard to be in thermal equilibrium. As for your question... maybe I just don't understand the physics enough, but wouldn't temperature still be defined as the average of atomic vibration, in this case the very large atomic vibrations.
That's how it has always been. MBA's and lawyers are the company's greatest weakness. They are the cause of the downfall of the company in the 80's. If Apple isn't careful, they will just turn into another abusive corporation sucking money from it's customers rather than providing innovative technology.
You're onto something there. Their smiley face would probably not be anthromorphic, as they probably don't look like humans. If I were a super advance civilization that could move stars and such, I would move black holes around me as to cloak my existence. If I have the power to move stars, there is a good chance that someone else does and could use it to blow me up.
I say we start looking for constellations that resemble our imaginations of aliens. After that we look for black hole clusters and then wipe out those galactic hide and seek playing wimps for being galactic hide and seek playing wimps. You can move stars have some courage!
But do they have senses of humor and are they able to understand when their culture isn't actually the point of the post, but instead just a detail in a parody of a very common practice on slashdot. I think so. Gotta a friend from Stavanger. He's an ok guy and pretty sharp, apparently sharper and a little more lighthearted than /. mods.
Spot on about speaking better english than Americans though. My first reply is proof positive.
But do they have senses of humor and can understand when their culture is actually the point of the post, but instead just a detail in a parody of a very common practice on slashdot.
/. mods.
I think so. Gotta a friend from Stavanger. He's an ok guy and pretty sharp, apparently sharper and a little more lighthearted than
Not to karma whore or anything... but the least you think an editor would do is provide the bokmal translation. This proves it... Slashdot hates Norwegian people. Again, not to karma whore:
" enhver burde ha likeverdig adgang å offentligheten beskjed : Åpen standarder bli tvangsmessig innen regjeringen. " regjeringen har bestemte det alle beskjed opp på regjeringen websites burde være anvendelig i fri luft formatter HTML PDF eller ODF. Med dette bestemmelse tidene når offentligheten dokumenter der hvor bare anvendelig inne Microsoft's Ord - formatter kommer å slutt. 'Everybody burde ha likeverdig adgang å offentligheten beskjed. Fra 2009 det borger ville være i stand til valgte hvilke programvare å bruk for at få innpass å offentligheten beskjed. Det regjeringen bestemmelse ville likeledes gjøre bedre konkurransen imellom leverandør av kontor søknadene sier DEN - minister Heidi Praktfull Røys. " denne er avgjørelsen av regjeringen : HTML burde være det primære formatter for forlagsartikkel av offentligheten beskjed på Sykehuslege. PDF (1.4 eller nyere , eller PDF / EN ISO 19005-1) er tvangsmessig når du ønske å gjemme originalen layout av en dokumentet. ODF ISO IEC 26300) må av sted anvendt når utgiveren dokumenter det er mente å bli forandret etter dataoverfører eg. blankett det er å bli fylte inne av brukeren. "- Norge Ministerium av Regjeringen Administrasjon og Forbedring "
*Translated by hand.
"We believe that time emerged during the Big Bang, and if time can emerge, it can also disappear - that's just the reverse effect," he says.
Of course it could also flip us all upside down and turn everything a light salmon color!
Note to self: Patent method for garnering scientific celebrity. Come up with outlandish theory, then claim that LHC will move it to the mainstream.
It is basically useless to run a search engine in China. If the search engine has to be responsible for ensuring that content it brings up is in compliance with each every law, sane or crazy, then the data set it opens up to the user will essentially be hacked into one tiny piece. This is perfect for big content and information repressing regimes. The internet is their biggest fear, a decentralized, cheap means of distributing information. If you can narrow its scope, as big content or an information repressing regime, you win.
"By confirming that Yahoo China's service violates copyright under new Chinese laws, the Beijing court has effectively set the standard for Internet companies throughout the country."
Translation: "The government has staked its claim. It will control the flow of information on the web across the board. This is just a small step."
You sir are a genius. No really I mean it. I wish there were more people like you that put the ad nauseum hashed debate about warming or climate change or whatever to the side. There is a legitimate argument for a lot of different viewpoints about the climate. The area where there is no room for different viewpoints is on the limited nature of fossil energy resources. Whether or not you buy into anthropogenic climate change or not, you should support more efficient non-fossil fuel energy sources. Diversity is the key. For two long we've all of our eggs in one basket, and it hasn't been until recently that we've realized that come back and bite us. Cheap solar like this could go a long way to broadening available energy as we start to see the real issue with energy arise, namely how do we support a rapidly industrializing third world and a world population that will reach nine billion in fifty years. Quantity is a real problem. We've built our economies on cheap energy, and now we're gonna have to work to keep that going.
It's actually surprisingly hard to weed out the morons
/. moderation seems to do it pretty well. (glances at most recent YRO comments).... oh wait... nevermind.
All of which begs the question: Just where is all this innovation going? To Clippy?
Microsoft has turned the business of chair throwing into an art. Nobody does it better than them. Why just a few short years ago, we were lucky to launch chairs more than a few meters. Even then they usually ended in a destructive fireball. Then came that luminary Ballmer. He changed everything. Next time you stand in awe of perfect chair-to-low-earth-orbit (CLEO, another MS patent), you thank Microsoft.
Where does the innovation go?! PFFF!
was when he got a hold of anti-reality distortion field unit. I hear got a look at Jobs' real face. All I can say is... he's lucky he's not dead. Count your blessings and move on man.
I'll say it sounds promising. A major hindrance to using alternative energy (eg solar), which is what most want to move to, to produce electricity is storing the power. The sun and wind, among other things, can't exactly be controlled manually to produce power on a whim. Inefficient storing is a major drawback. Any advance that improves storage capacity (for any platform) by an order of magnitude is promising to say the least. The article barely touched on how important this could be.
... of the morning, so I'll bite. I'll admit that I only got as far as reading the abstract, so sue me. I really don't see the need for a journal published paper to dissect the situation. Sony got caught up in the zeitgeist over Napster and how digital distribution was going to destroy their business model, just like how Hollywood freaked over the VCR. I think paranoia and utter indifference to the customer pretty much sums up the whole situation. Other than that, I don't see the need to dredge up a two-year old incident with a published paper, other than it's pretty late.
WP says they are a 501(c)(3), meaning they solely exist to promote science. So any donation to them would be a tax exemption just like a regular charity.
Wow an OS from a hated megacorp has majors upon release. Said issues are hashed and rehashed for the next year. A movement begins to move back to hated megacorp's old OS. Some jerk posts a weak summarization of issues with the new OS filled with lame smugness.
That's fricking hilarious!
With the topical freshness of this guy's material, he needs to be on late night competing with Leno.
AHA! We all knew it. We saw it coming. They laughed at us yes... YES!! Well, now THEY'LL be the ones to laugh at... ahhhhahhhahahahahhahhahaa!
Tinfoil hat brethren, I say we unite and add tinfoil earmuffs to the wardrobe. NAY!! The WHOLE wardrobe must be tinfoil. Only then will you be SAFE FROM THIS INVASION!!
VINDICATION IS SO SWEET!!
I thought that's exactly what I said. He was opening up files that may be incriminating, but otherwise not related to the offense he was being held for and unknown to the government. Sorry if I confused anybody.
No, it's a good day that the fifth amendment is being upheld like this, especially in a child pornography case. The fact that there wasn't an immediate 20-life sentence when the guy said something to the effect of "i may have transferred child pornography." Child porn is despicable, but it's a boogeyman that has been used in numerous countries to get heavy-handed law enforcement policies legislated into being. That movement has been set back by this ruling. On top of that, this ruling bodes well for electronic encryption. I can't see why you would be sad that the 5th amendment was "questioned" like this. Be happy a judge upheld it. Oh that's right... I forgot whining and crying about "teh police state" is so much more important and helpful than supporting people, like this judge in Vermont, that actually stand up for individual liberties. Sorry man, really.