I was under the impression that bonding happens at the link-layer. That would mean that bonding is good for getting to another MAC address, not to a target IP.
But, you do raise another possibility: maybe the DSL company has some parallel telephone structure (OK, almost certainly not) on which they might offer bonding. That use scenario is explicitly mentioned in the linked Wikipedia article. This would be precisely the Article Poster's DSL/DSL idea, unlike many of the other, earlier, responses.
Furthering your view, I would argue that there are enough degrees of freedom in just Newtonian physics.
Consider chaotic systems: they are determined but impossible to simulate (since any error, even of the smallest magnitude, rapidly causes gigantic divergences in behavior). Just because a motion is deterministic does not mean that it can be computed.
I would expect the kind of massively sensitive, discontinuous, and feedback-sensitive behaviors characteristic of chaotic systems in a human brain.
I don't even think the complexities of the quantum world need to be involved in any argument about free will. Deterministic theories should be enough, considering chaotic behavior.
Your post raises an interesting point: for the black hole to even affect us, it couldn't be moving that much faster than escape velocity, a measly 3.7x10^-5 c. Speaking without any substance to back me up, I would imagine that such a small amount of residual velocity (equivalently energy) isn't unlikely in a collision with such massive initial energies...
It would make fusion power look like crawling with one arm. Back of the napkin calculation:
A deuteron has 3.34x10^-27 kg of mass, while an alpha particle (He2+) has mass 6.64x10-27kg. (Particle Masses).
The mass of two deuterons is hence 0.04x10-27 kg more than the mass of an alpha particle. Equivalently, less than 0.6% of the mass of input Hydrogen mass is converted to energy. Pure matter-to-energy would be 167x better than H->He fusion.
Conservation laws would prevent a simple direct conversion (and also spontaneous "evaporation" of matter, thankfully). But, one might dream of more clever ways to do this...
Radio waves, like all electromagnetic radiation, travel at the speed of light. The space between the earth and moon is a fairly good vacuum, and all EM therefore travels at about c.
There are, however, plenty of ways to reduce or "cut down" the speed (install RIVAL OS on the server, for instance).
So, your post prompted me to try a little harder.
I actually can boot up through "Last known-good configuration" so it's not nearly as dire as I had suggested. But, the system is in an inconsistent state (is the new driver installed? it mustn't, since the computer starts; but, it doesn't appear in Windows Update anymore). On the other hand, I guess I should be happy not to have the option to shoot myself in the foot again.
Anyway, that's good enough for me, since I just wanted the volume to be unmarked as "dirty" so it's stops showing up every time I boot. The whole ordeal is still hardly "stable."
Although I would tend to judge an OS by its overall experience, I do understand your point that Microsoft's poor support of Windows doesn't make Windows bad. Don't forget that this problem came about from my use of Microsoft tools. It is Microsoft's fault for releasing this buggy driver.
However, my example of bad hardware was just to give an example of how brittle Windows is, and why documentation and community are important. The fact that a driver precipitated a problem is not so big. It is the ensuing catastrophic failure of the OS that so besmirches my view of Windows.
Let me present an anecdote: Installing a sound card driver update from Windows Update has rendered my Windows install unbootable.
If I ever get around to fixing this install, it will only happen through using the installation media. No dropping into a root shell and repairing the file, though I can do this through NTFS-3g. But, to no avail! There is no documentation to begin to explain what might have gone wrong; and worse, no community to support it. Forget even trying to call up the support drones to ask for help, they'll just say to reinstall from the CD.
MOD PARENT UP. There are MASSIVE spillover benefits to basic research. Economics guarantees that goods with spillover benefits will be underproduced by a free market. It is of critical importance that the government fund basic research.
Without a doubt, all our current models are "wrong" in the sense that they are not perfect. However, they are less imperfect than their ancestors. Science is iterative, and only a philosopher claims to find "absolute truth."
It's insulting to humanity to fail to recognize the amazing accomplishments of the present theories. Not every chap can dream up something that predicts reality so accurately as Einsteinian relativity.
Spacetime does not allow time travel. It forbids it! Why? By definition, that why.
The definition of space-time is that it is the structure which forbids time travel? I haven't taken a class in GR, but I'm pretty sure that's not the definition.
Contradict this truth at your own detriment and see if I care.
I'm quivering.
My position is clear: Hawking is a time travel crackpot and so are his followers.
Having looked at his results, I must tend to disagree.
If you don't like what I write, don't read it.
Fear not, for I have no intention of wasting any more time on it.
Care to cite some APS articles? Maybe something on the arXiv? No? I didn't think so. Because you're not reading physics, or science. Don't bother citing bullshit physics and/or math
that claims:
The assumption is that, since no Newtonian force is required to keep a body in inertial motion, nothing is required. It is a rather foolish assumption because it overlooks the fact that Newtonian force is, by definition, only associated with macroscopic acceleration as seen in the equation below:
Fn = ma
(where Fn = Newtonian force, m = the mass of a moving particle and a = acceleration.)
In other words, Newton posited a cause (force) for the observed accelerated movement of a massive body but failed to do the same for inertial movement.
I'm not sure what crap this site is spewing, but the "inertial movement" (which I could only believe is the MOTION) is related to the acceleration by ITS DEFINITION:
a:= dv/dt = d^2x/dt^
And I've got news for you, and it's called the uniqueness of solutions to linear systems of differential equations: stating a derivative and its initial conditions determines the motion (in many cases, see self-force in classical E&M for examples where other principles are used to determine motion).
Your metaphor (ok, simile, you grammar nazis) isn't the greatest. Almost all combinations of food are harmless to healthy persons.
Cooking (i.e., undercooking or blackening) can, indeed, allow or create toxins. But, that's fairly well understood by almost all cooks.
Very little chemistry is needed to determine if a food is toxic: most of the time you can tell by the taste.
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Mmmh hmmm. Could I get that running on Linux? And... yeah, some fries too, please. kthxbye.
I was under the impression that bonding happens at the link-layer. That would mean that bonding is good for getting to another MAC address, not to a target IP.
But, you do raise another possibility: maybe the DSL company has some parallel telephone structure (OK, almost certainly not) on which they might offer bonding. That use scenario is explicitly mentioned in the linked Wikipedia article. This would be precisely the Article Poster's DSL/DSL idea, unlike many of the other, earlier, responses.
Furthering your view, I would argue that there are enough degrees of freedom in just Newtonian physics.
Consider chaotic systems: they are determined but impossible to simulate (since any error, even of the smallest magnitude, rapidly causes gigantic divergences in behavior). Just because a motion is deterministic does not mean that it can be computed.
I would expect the kind of massively sensitive, discontinuous, and feedback-sensitive behaviors characteristic of chaotic systems in a human brain.
I don't even think the complexities of the quantum world need to be involved in any argument about free will. Deterministic theories should be enough, considering chaotic behavior.
Your post raises an interesting point: for the black hole to even affect us, it couldn't be moving that much faster than escape velocity, a measly 3.7x10^-5 c. Speaking without any substance to back me up, I would imagine that such a small amount of residual velocity (equivalently energy) isn't unlikely in a collision with such massive initial energies...
I'm even less worried now.
Mathematics results are physically relevant. News at 11.
Whoops! Thanks for catching that: I was recalling this from my econ class... quite a while ago.
It would make fusion power look like crawling with one arm. Back of the napkin calculation:
A deuteron has 3.34x10^-27 kg of mass, while an alpha particle (He2+) has mass 6.64x10-27kg. (Particle Masses).
The mass of two deuterons is hence 0.04x10-27 kg more than the mass of an alpha particle. Equivalently, less than 0.6% of the mass of input Hydrogen mass is converted to energy. Pure matter-to-energy would be 167x better than H->He fusion.
Conservation laws would prevent a simple direct conversion (and also spontaneous "evaporation" of matter, thankfully). But, one might dream of more clever ways to do this...
Products exhibiting this peculiar economic phenomenon are known as Giffen Goods.
Gold plated toilets, designer clothing, and diamond rings are other examples (the more expensive, the more desireable they are).
Back when I went to school, the continents were still joined!
And GET OFF MY LAWN!
Darnit. I meant:
Radio waves, like all electromagnetic radiation, travel at the speed of light in vacuum.
Radio waves, like all electromagnetic radiation, travel at the speed of light. The space between the earth and moon is a fairly good vacuum, and all EM therefore travels at about c.
There are, however, plenty of ways to reduce or "cut down" the speed (install RIVAL OS on the server, for instance).
Or ajaxterm. Debian package ajaxterm.
I can think of at least one: it's available most anywhere with a web browser (sans lynx, but: see parent).
:(
Tcsh/Bash/Zsh are not
So, your post prompted me to try a little harder. I actually can boot up through "Last known-good configuration" so it's not nearly as dire as I had suggested. But, the system is in an inconsistent state (is the new driver installed? it mustn't, since the computer starts; but, it doesn't appear in Windows Update anymore). On the other hand, I guess I should be happy not to have the option to shoot myself in the foot again.
Anyway, that's good enough for me, since I just wanted the volume to be unmarked as "dirty" so it's stops showing up every time I boot. The whole ordeal is still hardly "stable."
Although I would tend to judge an OS by its overall experience, I do understand your point that Microsoft's poor support of Windows doesn't make Windows bad. Don't forget that this problem came about from my use of Microsoft tools. It is Microsoft's fault for releasing this buggy driver.
However, my example of bad hardware was just to give an example of how brittle Windows is, and why documentation and community are important. The fact that a driver precipitated a problem is not so big. It is the ensuing catastrophic failure of the OS that so besmirches my view of Windows.
Let me present an anecdote: Installing a sound card driver update from Windows Update has rendered my Windows install unbootable.
If I ever get around to fixing this install, it will only happen through using the installation media. No dropping into a root shell and repairing the file, though I can do this through NTFS-3g. But, to no avail! There is no documentation to begin to explain what might have gone wrong; and worse, no community to support it. Forget even trying to call up the support drones to ask for help, they'll just say to reinstall from the CD.
Windows is not "solid," it's brittle.
MOD PARENT UP. There are MASSIVE spillover benefits to basic research. Economics guarantees that goods with spillover benefits will be underproduced by a free market. It is of critical importance that the government fund basic research.
Without a doubt, all our current models are "wrong" in the sense that they are not perfect. However, they are less imperfect than their ancestors. Science is iterative, and only a philosopher claims to find "absolute truth."
It's insulting to humanity to fail to recognize the amazing accomplishments of the present theories. Not every chap can dream up something that predicts reality so accurately as Einsteinian relativity.
Better still, Windows has had this feature since... the windows button was placed on the keyboard!
Try it! WIN-R. Program name. Enter.
As for "lock in," at least *nix TRIES to be standard: POSIX. Also, same goes for distributions of Linux: LSB.
As I don't do any cross-platform development, I can't comment on the result, only the visible intention.
a:= dv/dt = d^2x/dt^
And I've got news for you, and it's called the uniqueness of solutions to linear systems of differential equations: stating a derivative and its initial conditions determines the motion (in many cases, see self-force in classical E&M for examples where other principles are used to determine motion).
Your metaphor (ok, simile, you grammar nazis) isn't the greatest. Almost all combinations of food are harmless to healthy persons. Cooking (i.e., undercooking or blackening) can, indeed, allow or create toxins. But, that's fairly well understood by almost all cooks. Very little chemistry is needed to determine if a food is toxic: most of the time you can tell by the taste.
Seriously. How about c.f. the $110 million awarded to the MPAA? This carbon program is chump change.
This may not be the brightest idea out of Washington, but it is by far not the worst.
+3 Funny
Seriously, with abuses like the Patriot Act and NSLs, I can't help but chuckle.