I still haven't had anyone explain adequately to me how, after they've gone public, the company's stock market valuation matters (to the company) for anything at all, except for perhaps their ability to rack up debt.
If the company's stock is highly valued they can finance growth by selling shares. Otherwise they would have to "rack up debt" in order to grow.
Rebooting destroys information. If you reboot for any petty reasons, you miss the truly important problems.
Here's a practical example: I have a server that had been running uninterruptedly since it was first installed, in August 2007. The air conditioning system at the site had been giving a lot of trouble recently, and everybody complained, but the upper management thought there was no reason to upgrade it.
Recently there was a long, several hours, failure of the AC and the server gave a temperature alarm and had to be rebooted. An event that happens once in three years is a *strong* message that something is seriously wrong. If I had rebooted the system frequently, the AC failure would have been business as usual.
As for cruelty, considering Ancient Rome pretty much made a science out of painful ways of killing people
Looking at news today, I see plenty examples of random cruelty. I don't think that's a reason for me to behave that way, because I feel I'm morally superior to people who perform those acts.
Obviously, the Christian church didn't feel that way, AND THEY STILL DON'T FEEL THAT WAY TODAY, when every Christian when confronted with the ruthlessness of the church in ancient times insist that's OK, because it was the custom of those days.
A church should be a moral guide, not the follower of corrupt customs.
many applications require high-precision measurements, not just good approximations
And your point is...?
For any application that needs high-precision measurements, there are many others where lower precision would do fine, if only it wouldn't cost so much.
The catholic church has been involved in violent abuse since the start of the Middle Ages, when it came to rule all Europe.
The start of catholic rule also coincides with the start of the "dark ages" in Europe. An event that could be defined as the beginning of the dark ages would be the council of Ephesus, when Cyril of Alexandria won a political dispute over his rival, Nestor of Constantinople. It was in that council that Mary, mother of Jesus, was elevated to the status of a goddess, which she still maintains today in the catholic church, although other Christian denominations are much more discreet about venerating her.
Cyril became one of the topmost leaders of the catholic church as a result of that council. He was an extremely cruel man. It can be argued that the execution of Hypatia at his command was one of the most violent and stupid acts committed in the history of mankind, since it started a period of a thousand years of misery and violence.
All we know, from Bell`s inequality experiments, is that collapse must propagate faster than light speed. It might be instantaneous in one, but not every frame of reference.
This means that collapse must happen in a time reversed way looking from some other references, but this doesn't violate causality because, as far as anyone can tell, there's no way to send information that way.
And when they find me, how will I resist their clever and informative advertising? I'm sure there must be plenty of marketeers scratching their heads trying to understand what's this "Anonymous Coward" guy's preferences.
The entanglement doesn't need to collapse simultaneously, it just needs to collapse consistently
There are experiments with entangled particles separated by more than ten kilometers that seem to indicate simultaneous collapse. If not, you could perform separate measurements on each particle and violate the uncertainty principle.
I see no reason to expect that all quantum entanglement in the universe collapses simultaneously in a common reference frame.
We know that every entanglement must collapse simultaneously in some frame, because measuring polarization in two different directions gives different results if the particles are entangled. Which frame is that? It need not be the same frame for all entanglements, but in each case there must exist some frame where those events are truly simultaneous.
Absolute simultaneity seems to be a requisite to Bell's inequality and the uncertainty principle, without it one of these two must be false.
I wanted to learn how to make Napalm from human fat
Napalm is a mix of gasoline with soap. To make soap from human fat, get (by weight) 7 parts fat, 2 parts water, and 1 part sodium hydroxide. Mix thoroughly in a blender until it starts thickening. Pour in a mold and let stand for a few days. To make napalm, grind the soap and mix 2 parts gasoline with 1 part soap.
The point is that this "privileged" inertial frame is not special. We can make any other inertial frame the "privileged" one, that is, any of the other inertial frames can replace it
That's the theory, but Bell's inequality seems to indicate otherwise. When a quantum entangled system with two separated particles collapses, these are two space-separated events that occur simultaneously. In which reference is this collapse simultaneous? That's an important question for which relativity does not have an answer.
The "every frame is equal" principle is not a physical rule, it's just an interesting symmetry, brought by the fact that light speed is constant for every observer. It does not preclude the existence of one special inertial frame, which is different from all others.
Think of a spacetime diagram as a map, you cannot say "the mountain is to the right of the lake" because the map can be turned around. However you can put an arrow pointing "North" on the map, then you could say "the mountain is to the east of the lake". Likewise, the existence of one privileged inertial frame would allow us to draw one set of coordinates on a spacetime diagram that would have some interesting property related to it, for instance, "quantum decoherence is simultaneous in this reference".
There's an embarrassing set of experiments that simply won't go away that imply physics isn't as local as relativity would suggest.
Before someone tells me that "absolute simultaneity does not exist", let me point out that there's nothing in our current knowledge of physics against the existence of *one* specially privileged inertial frame having absolute simultaneity, provided that all other inertial frames are relative.
At least for me, it's easier to believe in one inertial frame that allows FTL transportation or communication than to believe in something that makes the universe suddenly grow by 78 orders of magnitude.
To say that not everyone who is religious becomes violent is a strawman argument, because not everyone who plays videogames becomes violent either.
And yet, you have already managed to characterize them all, congratulations on your stereotyping abilities.
No, not at all. I was pointing out the inconsistency in people who want to characterize everyone who plays videogames as violent, who call anyone who does not believe in their religion "doorknobs", yet want to distance themselves from people who commit acts of violence motivated by religion.
Odd you don't feel comfortable talking about religion yet you post about it.
I'm not posting anything about religion, I'm posting about censorship.
if you don't care about religion you likely in some way don't respect people who do
Exactly, I definitely do not respect people who believe in something that causes so much violence and harm.
To put things into perspective, some studies purportedly show that some people have a tendency to become violent after playing video games. Well, manypeople have become *extremely* violent as a result of believing in a religion.
It really does not make sense to propose banning one possible, but yet unproven, cause of violence and not ban another clearly demonstrated cause of violence.
To say that not everyone who is religious becomes violent is a strawman argument, because not everyone who plays videogames becomes violent either. There are peaceful and law abiding citizens who play videogames. If you want to be respected you should also respect other people.
Violent video games make ME uncomfortable. Therefore, nobody should be allowed to make or play them
I don't like people who talk about their religion to me. My solution? No, I don't want to ban religion. I just avoid it. Don't go to church, avoid people who talk about religion.
Even though thousands of years of history prove that religion motivates people to perform the most atrocious violence, I'm not proposing to ban religion.
Therefore I cannot understand why people want to ban games without even presenting credible evidence that games cause any harm.
The images in TFA are in infrared, so they not resemble North America at all, in visible light, depending on how the picture was taken, there can be a very good resemblance.
As for the horse head nebula, it looks more like a dog head, IMHO
Keep your defense and social security spending as is, and kill all your basic research and science. That's the way to the future.
Then wonder why so many American kids are functionally illiterate and start creating conspiracy theories about Chinese technology and badmouth globalization when technical jobs are outsourced to India...
The solution? Hire more lawyers, raise the managers' salaries, pay more bonuses to high executives.
I, too, remember fondly DN3D and its gameplay did have all those things you mentioned. But I wouldn't expect too much from DNF. My guess, from all game sequels I have seen in recent years, is that it will have well polished graphics with a mediocre gameplay.
It was the same thing with car simulators. I played "Need for Speed - Porsche Unleashed" in 2000 in a 500 MHz Pentium 3 machine with 128 MB memory and a 6 GB hard disk. It was awesome, especially with a force-feedback wheel. It had great playability because it had a perfect combination of a decent physical simulation without having to bother too much with details.
Today there is no driving simulator that does what NFSPU did. Either they are arcade games designed for consoles or they are extremely detailed simulations where you spend more time fiddling with adjustments rather than driving. All of them have great graphics, though...
The tiles each contained 496 programmable transistors built from ten-nanometre-thick germanium wires, and were touted as a "world first" in complexity and function.
You would think that an article that talks about some new technology would actually state what they were building upon, and what they changed to improve the process.
It's right there, in the sentence you quoted: "ten-nanometer-thick germanium wires"
What's new is the ten-nanometer wires, not using germanium.
The FBI's stats actually show rape is down yet people don't take the time to verify things anymore
When I was a kid, my mother went to a PTA meeting where the school director (a retired army colonel, BTW) presented police statistics showing a decrease in rape incidents. He interpreted this as an indicator of increased use of marijuana because, according to him, marijuana causes sexual impotence.
Conclusion: if video games cause rape that's good, because it will decrease drug use, same as piracy decreases global warming.
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I still haven't had anyone explain adequately to me how, after they've gone public, the company's stock market valuation matters (to the company) for anything at all, except for perhaps their ability to rack up debt.
If the company's stock is highly valued they can finance growth by selling shares. Otherwise they would have to "rack up debt" in order to grow.
Rebooting destroys information. If you reboot for any petty reasons, you miss the truly important problems.
Here's a practical example: I have a server that had been running uninterruptedly since it was first installed, in August 2007. The air conditioning system at the site had been giving a lot of trouble recently, and everybody complained, but the upper management thought there was no reason to upgrade it.
Recently there was a long, several hours, failure of the AC and the server gave a temperature alarm and had to be rebooted. An event that happens once in three years is a *strong* message that something is seriously wrong. If I had rebooted the system frequently, the AC failure would have been business as usual.
As for cruelty, considering Ancient Rome pretty much made a science out of painful ways of killing people
Looking at news today, I see plenty examples of random cruelty. I don't think that's a reason for me to behave that way, because I feel I'm morally superior to people who perform those acts.
Obviously, the Christian church didn't feel that way, AND THEY STILL DON'T FEEL THAT WAY TODAY, when every Christian when confronted with the ruthlessness of the church in ancient times insist that's OK, because it was the custom of those days.
A church should be a moral guide, not the follower of corrupt customs.
many applications require high-precision measurements, not just good approximations
And your point is...?
For any application that needs high-precision measurements, there are many others where lower precision would do fine, if only it wouldn't cost so much.
The catholic church has been involved in violent abuse since the start of the Middle Ages, when it came to rule all Europe.
The start of catholic rule also coincides with the start of the "dark ages" in Europe. An event that could be defined as the beginning of the dark ages would be the council of Ephesus, when Cyril of Alexandria won a political dispute over his rival, Nestor of Constantinople. It was in that council that Mary, mother of Jesus, was elevated to the status of a goddess, which she still maintains today in the catholic church, although other Christian denominations are much more discreet about venerating her.
Cyril became one of the topmost leaders of the catholic church as a result of that council. He was an extremely cruel man. It can be argued that the execution of Hypatia at his command was one of the most violent and stupid acts committed in the history of mankind, since it started a period of a thousand years of misery and violence.
what you said implies that it must collapse simultaneously in all frames
No, that's impossible.
All we know, from Bell`s inequality experiments, is that collapse must propagate faster than light speed. It might be instantaneous in one, but not every frame of reference.
This means that collapse must happen in a time reversed way looking from some other references, but this doesn't violate causality because, as far as anyone can tell, there's no way to send information that way.
And when they find me, how will I resist their clever and informative advertising?
I'm sure there must be plenty of marketeers scratching their heads trying to understand what's this "Anonymous Coward" guy's preferences.
let .net developers do things correctly.
You mean, like migrating apps away from .net?
The entanglement doesn't need to collapse simultaneously, it just needs to collapse consistently
There are experiments with entangled particles separated by more than ten kilometers that seem to indicate simultaneous collapse. If not, you could perform separate measurements on each particle and violate the uncertainty principle.
I see no reason to expect that all quantum entanglement in the universe collapses simultaneously in a common reference frame.
We know that every entanglement must collapse simultaneously in some frame, because measuring polarization in two different directions gives different results if the particles are entangled. Which frame is that? It need not be the same frame for all entanglements, but in each case there must exist some frame where those events are truly simultaneous.
Absolute simultaneity seems to be a requisite to Bell's inequality and the uncertainty principle, without it one of these two must be false.
I wanted to learn how to make Napalm from human fat
Napalm is a mix of gasoline with soap. To make soap from human fat, get (by weight) 7 parts fat, 2 parts water, and 1 part sodium hydroxide. Mix thoroughly in a blender until it starts thickening. Pour in a mold and let stand for a few days. To make napalm, grind the soap and mix 2 parts gasoline with 1 part soap.
The point is that this "privileged" inertial frame is not special. We can make any other inertial frame the "privileged" one, that is, any of the other inertial frames can replace it
That's the theory, but Bell's inequality seems to indicate otherwise. When a quantum entangled system with two separated particles collapses, these are two space-separated events that occur simultaneously. In which reference is this collapse simultaneous? That's an important question for which relativity does not have an answer.
The "every frame is equal" principle is not a physical rule, it's just an interesting symmetry, brought by the fact that light speed is constant for every observer. It does not preclude the existence of one special inertial frame, which is different from all others.
Think of a spacetime diagram as a map, you cannot say "the mountain is to the right of the lake" because the map can be turned around. However you can put an arrow pointing "North" on the map, then you could say "the mountain is to the east of the lake". Likewise, the existence of one privileged inertial frame would allow us to draw one set of coordinates on a spacetime diagram that would have some interesting property related to it, for instance, "quantum decoherence is simultaneous in this reference".
There's an embarrassing set of experiments that simply won't go away that imply physics isn't as local as relativity would suggest.
Before someone tells me that "absolute simultaneity does not exist", let me point out that there's nothing in our current knowledge of physics against the existence of *one* specially privileged inertial frame having absolute simultaneity, provided that all other inertial frames are relative.
At least for me, it's easier to believe in one inertial frame that allows FTL transportation or communication than to believe in something that makes the universe suddenly grow by 78 orders of magnitude.
To say that not everyone who is religious becomes violent is a strawman argument, because not everyone who plays videogames becomes violent either.
And yet, you have already managed to characterize them all, congratulations on your stereotyping abilities.
No, not at all. I was pointing out the inconsistency in people who want to characterize everyone who plays videogames as violent, who call anyone who does not believe in their religion "doorknobs", yet want to distance themselves from people who commit acts of violence motivated by religion.
Odd you don't feel comfortable talking about religion yet you post about it.
I'm not posting anything about religion, I'm posting about censorship.
if you don't care about religion you likely in some way don't respect people who do
Exactly, I definitely do not respect people who believe in something that causes so much violence and harm.
To put things into perspective, some studies purportedly show that some people have a tendency to become violent after playing video games. Well, many people have become *extremely* violent as a result of believing in a religion.
It really does not make sense to propose banning one possible, but yet unproven, cause of violence and not ban another clearly demonstrated cause of violence.
To say that not everyone who is religious becomes violent is a strawman argument, because not everyone who plays videogames becomes violent either. There are peaceful and law abiding citizens who play videogames. If you want to be respected you should also respect other people.
Violent video games make ME uncomfortable. Therefore, nobody should be allowed to make or play them
I don't like people who talk about their religion to me. My solution? No, I don't want to ban religion. I just avoid it. Don't go to church, avoid people who talk about religion.
Even though thousands of years of history prove that religion motivates people to perform the most atrocious violence, I'm not proposing to ban religion.
Therefore I cannot understand why people want to ban games without even presenting credible evidence that games cause any harm.
The images in TFA are in infrared, so they not resemble North America at all, in visible light, depending on how the picture was taken, there can be a very good resemblance.
As for the horse head nebula, it looks more like a dog head, IMHO
Why print news about NASA missions as reported by somebody else?
Pretty picture here
"New View of Family Life in the North American Nebula"
a region called the North American Nebula
Seriously now?
Wikipedia is your friend. Spoiler: it's named for its shape.
Keep your defense and social security spending as is, and kill all your basic research and science. That's the way to the future.
Then wonder why so many American kids are functionally illiterate and start creating conspiracy theories about Chinese technology and badmouth globalization when technical jobs are outsourced to India...
The solution? Hire more lawyers, raise the managers' salaries, pay more bonuses to high executives.
I, too, remember fondly DN3D and its gameplay did have all those things you mentioned. But I wouldn't expect too much from DNF. My guess, from all game sequels I have seen in recent years, is that it will have well polished graphics with a mediocre gameplay.
It was the same thing with car simulators. I played "Need for Speed - Porsche Unleashed" in 2000 in a 500 MHz Pentium 3 machine with 128 MB memory and a 6 GB hard disk. It was awesome, especially with a force-feedback wheel. It had great playability because it had a perfect combination of a decent physical simulation without having to bother too much with details.
Today there is no driving simulator that does what NFSPU did. Either they are arcade games designed for consoles or they are extremely detailed simulations where you spend more time fiddling with adjustments rather than driving. All of them have great graphics, though...
From TFA:
The tiles each contained 496 programmable transistors built from ten-nanometre-thick germanium wires, and were touted as a "world first" in complexity and function.
You would think that an article that talks about some new technology would actually state what they were building upon, and what they changed to improve the process.
It's right there, in the sentence you quoted: "ten-nanometer-thick germanium wires"
What's new is the ten-nanometer wires, not using germanium.
we are going to hit it with a laser and look at the smoke. What if aliens were to do that to us one day?
Let me guess: no tattoos?
It's a well known fact that a Fox News agent raped and killed a girl in 1990. Which video games did he play?
The FBI's stats actually show rape is down yet people don't take the time to verify things anymore
When I was a kid, my mother went to a PTA meeting where the school director (a retired army colonel, BTW) presented police statistics showing a decrease in rape incidents. He interpreted this as an indicator of increased use of marijuana because, according to him, marijuana causes sexual impotence.
Conclusion: if video games cause rape that's good, because it will decrease drug use, same as piracy decreases global warming.