The rock band drum set requires you to have good coordination and rhythm, which are qualities that will make you a good drummer. The motions used in Rock Band are pretty similar to what actual drumming is like, but not equivalent. Take someone who has only played Rock Band and sit them in front of a real drum set, and they would probably require a significant amount of practice before being able to e.g. keep good time without a soundtrack, show up on time to rehearsal, or have a girlfriend. You know, like real drummers do...
Just a side note, Eisenhower's original draft of his farewell address referred to a military-industrial-congressional complex. We're all in bed here, don'cha know. The legislative-commercial complex has a much simpler name: corruption.
This country is getting to the point where I'm finding it hard to stay. I'd move to Australia or Britain, but I don't want to learn another language...
If you're referring to MOND, you may want to read this.
If you're not referring to MOND, then realize that people have had this idea of yours before, examined it, and we still have the theory of dark matter as the one that best explains our observations.
You're mistaken in what you think the whole dark matter argument is about. Go read the wikipedia article. Dark matter is the best explanation we have right now; it agrees with many observations quite nicely. None of the alternate explanations hold water.
Dark matter must be extremely counter intuitive; the masses of intellectually lazy people around here dismiss it out of hand. Seriously, people! If you have any doubt, go read the wikipedia article on Dark matter and/or the Bullet Cluster. MOND is the only halfway rational alternate explanation, so go read this article and maybe some others on arXiv. Your sound and fury is irritating; try to have an intelligent debate.
"...hardly run any useful software unless you're logged on as admin..."
Care to give some examples? Assuming you can, they would be examples of poorly written software. Very few things should need admin access to run. Installing things is---rightfully---another matter entirely. Hopefully UAC should force developers to improve their habits, so that if your criticism carries any weight right now, it will prove completely groundless in the future.
I know people who bought antivirus products for a Mac. It speaks more to their gullibility than anything else. Probably if you're dumb enough to think you need it, you need it.
I found a rather interesting arXiv post you should read. Apparently people have verified that F = ma for accelerations several orders of magnitude below the point where Milgrom's a_{0} should have reared its ugly head. The linked article apparently shows that MOND "could not avoid introducing dark matter."
The 'article' I read was probably a post here on/.:) One of those people who put IAAAP at the beginning of their post. I think that while MOND cannot be ruled out entirely, the possibility of it being true is becoming increasingly slim.
I think this is usually a game played at security/hacker conferences. Hook up unpatched windows box, time it until it gets an infection. From what I remember reading it generally takes less than a minute. As of 2005, one company's estimate was twelve minutes to infection. The last time I booted windows (box connected directly to the net without a router) I had the firewall in verbose mode and it registered an average of two intrusion attempts per minute.
Generally speaking, there's a reason that windows machines come with AV and firewalls these days. I'm sure the most conservative estimates of time-to-pwn would be less than the time it would take to download updates.
RTFA
What will the source of the function be? There are two obvious sources. One would be the CleverAge open source project conversion code generated by the long-running project at Source Forge funded by Microsoft. The other would be internal development. While either is possible, in comparing notes with others there are indications that development work may have been ongoing for some time to enable this function.
The universe is a pretty cool place, really. Although in the case of the CMBR, it was theorized to exist before it was discovered experimentally.
what if space time isn't the flat sheet distorted like is thought Well, actually, we've been able to measure that. Here's a summary, but we're pretty sure that the universe is flat (parallel lines will never converge), to within a 2% margin of error. Neat work, that.
I have pretty much the same sense of wonder and awe when faced with the incredible complexity of the universe. It's such an incredible, marvellous thing that we are even here to observe it.
More funding for astronomers, that's what I say. Imagine if the United States spent half as much money on science as we are spending on this war.
I'm not an astrophysicist, but the last I've read on the subject implied that the possibility of MOND being correct was unlikely at best, and purely specious at worst. The Bullet Cluster especially seems like it would require a great deal of explanation. As far as I know, while it's not a settled issue, the preponderance of evidence at this time supports the existence of dark matter.
Quite true. With friends like that, who needs enemies? I suppose this is the beginning of the end for J.T. We'd better gin up some studies and statistics for the next round of the anti-gaming nonsense. Actually, I'm hoping he's managed to kill it off, but if not we'll need some ammunition against the demagogues.
I highly recommend to you the wikipedia article on the subject. The short form is that we've covered all of the other bases with dark matter. We know that not only is there mass out there that we can't detect, there's a staggering amount of it. Most of the mass in the universe, in fact. If it were normal matter, it would be dense enough for star formation. Things behave wildly differently than they're supposed to, and short of revising our theory of gravitation in a complex and inconsistent way, we are left with a bunch of dark matter. Again, the wikipedia article is quite good, and I recommend it.
Fine, find some sort of matter interacts gravitationally with the observable universe but not electromagnetically, and call it whatever you want when you do. We'll be over here calling it non-baryonic matter, or dark matter.
Great, except the problem is that we're trying to figure out what we can measure by its gravitational effects but doesn't interact in any other way with normal matter. This is the solution to a different problem.
Well, dust is not dark matter. There's other matter besides baryonic matter. There's a great picture on wikipedia that 'shows' dark matter. The debate on dark matter is how much it exists and its exact nature, not whether it exists.
I'm sorry, I was rushed. Next time I'll be funnier, I promise!
Actually, I feel like I'm so out of touch that my sense of humor is becoming completely random. Soon I'll become a Python, doomed to never again be understood by mortal men.
Answers!
1. Probably the relative ease with which a population can be led around by the nose is mostly independent of which morality they've been brought up to accept. "Look, they're different and scary!" "Look, something happened to the Maine/Maddox/WTC!"...and away we go.
2. Is the point that wars are bad? Hmm. Bad for whom? More on topic, I'm sure that there are games which promote warfare and games that do not. Probably they are both less influential than many would like to believe. Which may help to explain what happened to this game...
What do we have public education for anyway? We should just can all the funding for that, too. Give it to needy families or something. Lol, what am I saying? My brother works in defense, he could use the money.
Seriously, you're saying the People should not be involved with education for the people. Morality != religion, and especially in the United States people seem to be really keen on legislating the former. Perhaps we not teach in public schools anything remotely related to morality?
What good would our military-government-industrial complex be if this sort of thing grew popular? We must act now to stop the spread of such dangerous new thinking! If "tree of liberty" rhetoric was good enough for this country's founders, it's good enough for me!
The parent's analogy about loans and insurance is much better than your 'snack pack' analogy. Your printer cable analogy is even worse. You're saying "I don't see how it's illegal," well, there's a law, and it says that this kind of forced bundling is illegal. So if I want cable internet, for example, the cable company can't force me to get cable TV too. Again, this isn't the case everywhere, but it is the case in some places. Whether or not you think it isn't.
Now, if you're saying that it shouldn't be illegal, well, I disagree. I sure as shit don't want to have to pay for cable just to get internet service, and my parents have to do that (and pay extortionate rates for the privilege), because there is no state law forbidding the provider from doing just that. The point you seem to be missing is that when you're buying a computer, or internet service, or whatever, you should only be obligated to pay for that item, and not whatever else the vendor decides to tack on because they can get away with it. Being the dominant player in a market doesn't mean that you can jack your customers around however you want. It's why we have laws against monopolies--they are for the most part recognized as being against the interest of the public. Just saying "it's a free market," as if that is a solution to the problem is totally flawed.
Honestly, I would rather see an end to free vendor support. You don't get much for your money anyway. Most people know that they don't know much about computers, and support is probably a larger factor than the hardware capability in the purchasing decision for them. It is totally impractical to provide free support for every single issue, and most vendors don't even try. I believe that the ideal solution would be to eliminate free support, and require vendors to provide as much documentation as possible about their products, use open architectures, open source, etc. The idea would be to make it possible for support to actually be a competitive market. As is there is little incentive for any vendor to provide good support for their products.
ASUS no longer can sell XP pre-installed on a computer, it should then have the right to offer the customer who is not running Windows no support Which is exactly what they do. Same with every other computer manufacturer. Nothing wrong with that, except that it leaves the customer in a bad position, especially if there is not enough information about $product for anyone else to find a solution. This appears to be the trend, however, and I believe that regulation may be necessary to best serve the consumer. You may prefer to avoid such legislation in favor of serving the corporate profit motive.
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The rock band drum set requires you to have good coordination and rhythm, which are qualities that will make you a good drummer. The motions used in Rock Band are pretty similar to what actual drumming is like, but not equivalent. Take someone who has only played Rock Band and sit them in front of a real drum set, and they would probably require a significant amount of practice before being able to e.g. keep good time without a soundtrack, show up on time to rehearsal, or have a girlfriend. You know, like real drummers do...
Just a side note, Eisenhower's original draft of his farewell address referred to a military-industrial-congressional complex. We're all in bed here, don'cha know. The legislative-commercial complex has a much simpler name: corruption.
This country is getting to the point where I'm finding it hard to stay. I'd move to Australia or Britain, but I don't want to learn another language...
If you're referring to MOND, read this plz.
If gravity doesn't scale the way we think it does, it's hiding that very well, and we still need dark matter.
If you're referring to MOND, you may want to read this.
If you're not referring to MOND, then realize that people have had this idea of yours before, examined it, and we still have the theory of dark matter as the one that best explains our observations.
You're mistaken in what you think the whole dark matter argument is about. Go read the wikipedia article. Dark matter is the best explanation we have right now; it agrees with many observations quite nicely. None of the alternate explanations hold water.
Dark matter must be extremely counter intuitive; the masses of intellectually lazy people around here dismiss it out of hand. Seriously, people! If you have any doubt, go read the wikipedia article on Dark matter and/or the Bullet Cluster. MOND is the only halfway rational alternate explanation, so go read this article and maybe some others on arXiv. Your sound and fury is irritating; try to have an intelligent debate.
"...hardly run any useful software unless you're logged on as admin..."
Care to give some examples? Assuming you can, they would be examples of poorly written software. Very few things should need admin access to run. Installing things is---rightfully---another matter entirely. Hopefully UAC should force developers to improve their habits, so that if your criticism carries any weight right now, it will prove completely groundless in the future.
I know people who bought antivirus products for a Mac. It speaks more to their gullibility than anything else. Probably if you're dumb enough to think you need it, you need it.
Time is not generally measured in pennies.
I found a rather interesting arXiv post you should read. Apparently people have verified that F = ma for accelerations several orders of magnitude below the point where Milgrom's a_{0} should have reared its ugly head. The linked article apparently shows that MOND "could not avoid introducing dark matter."
/. :) One of those people who put IAAAP at the beginning of their post. I think that while MOND cannot be ruled out entirely, the possibility of it being true is becoming increasingly slim.
The 'article' I read was probably a post here on
I think this is usually a game played at security/hacker conferences. Hook up unpatched windows box, time it until it gets an infection. From what I remember reading it generally takes less than a minute. As of 2005, one company's estimate was twelve minutes to infection. The last time I booted windows (box connected directly to the net without a router) I had the firewall in verbose mode and it registered an average of two intrusion attempts per minute.
Generally speaking, there's a reason that windows machines come with AV and firewalls these days. I'm sure the most conservative estimates of time-to-pwn would be less than the time it would take to download updates.
The universe is a pretty cool place, really. Although in the case of the CMBR, it was theorized to exist before it was discovered experimentally. what if space time isn't the flat sheet distorted like is thought Well, actually, we've been able to measure that. Here's a summary, but we're pretty sure that the universe is flat (parallel lines will never converge), to within a 2% margin of error. Neat work, that.
I have pretty much the same sense of wonder and awe when faced with the incredible complexity of the universe. It's such an incredible, marvellous thing that we are even here to observe it. More funding for astronomers, that's what I say. Imagine if the United States spent half as much money on science as we are spending on this war.
I'm not an astrophysicist, but the last I've read on the subject implied that the possibility of MOND being correct was unlikely at best, and purely specious at worst. The Bullet Cluster especially seems like it would require a great deal of explanation. As far as I know, while it's not a settled issue, the preponderance of evidence at this time supports the existence of dark matter.
Quite true. With friends like that, who needs enemies? I suppose this is the beginning of the end for J.T. We'd better gin up some studies and statistics for the next round of the anti-gaming nonsense. Actually, I'm hoping he's managed to kill it off, but if not we'll need some ammunition against the demagogues.
I highly recommend to you the wikipedia article on the subject. The short form is that we've covered all of the other bases with dark matter. We know that not only is there mass out there that we can't detect, there's a staggering amount of it. Most of the mass in the universe, in fact. If it were normal matter, it would be dense enough for star formation. Things behave wildly differently than they're supposed to, and short of revising our theory of gravitation in a complex and inconsistent way, we are left with a bunch of dark matter. Again, the wikipedia article is quite good, and I recommend it.
Fine, find some sort of matter interacts gravitationally with the observable universe but not electromagnetically, and call it whatever you want when you do. We'll be over here calling it non-baryonic matter, or dark matter.
Let me correct that. Water *can* form in very low temperatures but I read that most of it comes from supernovae.
Yes. All of the water on the planet formed in deep space. Neat, huh?
Great, except the problem is that we're trying to figure out what we can measure by its gravitational effects but doesn't interact in any other way with normal matter. This is the solution to a different problem.
Well, dust is not dark matter. There's other matter besides baryonic matter. There's a great picture on wikipedia that 'shows' dark matter. The debate on dark matter is how much it exists and its exact nature, not whether it exists.
I'm sorry, I was rushed. Next time I'll be funnier, I promise!
...and away we go.
Actually, I feel like I'm so out of touch that my sense of humor is becoming completely random. Soon I'll become a Python, doomed to never again be understood by mortal men.
Answers!
1. Probably the relative ease with which a population can be led around by the nose is mostly independent of which morality they've been brought up to accept. "Look, they're different and scary!" "Look, something happened to the Maine/Maddox/WTC!"
2. Is the point that wars are bad? Hmm. Bad for whom? More on topic, I'm sure that there are games which promote warfare and games that do not. Probably they are both less influential than many would like to believe. Which may help to explain what happened to this game...
What do we have public education for anyway? We should just can all the funding for that, too. Give it to needy families or something. Lol, what am I saying? My brother works in defense, he could use the money.
Seriously, you're saying the People should not be involved with education for the people. Morality != religion, and especially in the United States people seem to be really keen on legislating the former. Perhaps we not teach in public schools anything remotely related to morality?
What good would our military-government-industrial complex be if this sort of thing grew popular? We must act now to stop the spread of such dangerous new thinking! If "tree of liberty" rhetoric was good enough for this country's founders, it's good enough for me!
Mission Accomplished!
Now, if you're saying that it shouldn't be illegal, well, I disagree. I sure as shit don't want to have to pay for cable just to get internet service, and my parents have to do that (and pay extortionate rates for the privilege), because there is no state law forbidding the provider from doing just that. The point you seem to be missing is that when you're buying a computer, or internet service, or whatever, you should only be obligated to pay for that item, and not whatever else the vendor decides to tack on because they can get away with it. Being the dominant player in a market doesn't mean that you can jack your customers around however you want. It's why we have laws against monopolies--they are for the most part recognized as being against the interest of the public. Just saying "it's a free market," as if that is a solution to the problem is totally flawed.
Honestly, I would rather see an end to free vendor support. You don't get much for your money anyway. Most people know that they don't know much about computers, and support is probably a larger factor than the hardware capability in the purchasing decision for them. It is totally impractical to provide free support for every single issue, and most vendors don't even try. I believe that the ideal solution would be to eliminate free support, and require vendors to provide as much documentation as possible about their products, use open architectures, open source, etc. The idea would be to make it possible for support to actually be a competitive market. As is there is little incentive for any vendor to provide good support for their products. ASUS no longer can sell XP pre-installed on a computer, it should then have the right to offer the customer who is not running Windows no support Which is exactly what they do. Same with every other computer manufacturer. Nothing wrong with that, except that it leaves the customer in a bad position, especially if there is not enough information about $product for anyone else to find a solution. This appears to be the trend, however, and I believe that regulation may be necessary to best serve the consumer. You may prefer to avoid such legislation in favor of serving the corporate profit motive.