Which in Einstein's case is unfortunate, as his The World as I See It clearly shows him to be an idiot savant: untouchable at mathematical physics, but laughably and tragically stupid about nearly everything else.
Heisenberg's Physics and Beyond is, on the other hand, a brilliant chronicle of the development of quantum physics. Heisenberg's disgust at faculty loyalty oaths and other trappings of National Socialism is clear. Heinsenberg also records the brilliance and humor of his colleagues, like Wolfgang Pauli, "There is no God and Dirac is His prophet!" Heisenberg is quite gracious to Einstein, so it is sad Einstein couldn't rise above his petty bitterness to all things quantum (what a cranky idiot savant).
Since this is Slashdot, there is of course no need to urge folks to read Stan Ulam's Adventures of a Mathematician. Y'all got it next to Feynman on your shelves, right?
Amazing to see the Net's foremost Nazi apologist talk about freedom. Arbeit macht frei, y'all!
Also, who would expect Mike to even know the meaning of "slander?" Slander is Mike's MO! I tried to teach him logic, but Boole conflicted with his worldview. He too much enjoyed non sequitur to ever give real logical argumentation even a try. Lawyering is just a matter of convincing a judge or jury of your viewpoint, and is not at all concerned with real decent argumentation. Perhaps, thousands of years ago, lawyers were trained in logic.
But nowadays, bluster and bullshit are the tools of their trade. We have completely kludged laws as the result.
Slashdot is supposed to be "News for Nerds." As the people who built the communications networks, we should be very careful about letting lesser professions try to control our work. The last smart lawyer was Leibniz, today's batch is nothing but parasitic imbeciles with advanced college infections.
We don't need to kill all the lawyers. We need only de-kludge the law so we don't need so many lawyers.
Beware the lawyer who speaks of "freedom." In their parlance, it is a synonym for "control."
Mike formulated his Nazi quip because he got tired of being compared to (other) Nazis. I know, I was there, he did it on my hardware.
You misheard, or are trolling. Apple's ad was about its fastest "personal computer." Given Apple's seminal position in the industry, they can define "personal computer" any way they please. They chose to exclude "workstations" and "servers."
Again, either you misheard or misremembered, or you are a liar and you are lying for attention, which is a form of trolling.
Mike: why do you hang out on so many Nazi-oriented newsgroups?
There are very few Nazi references in places where decent people go.
But I am a Practical Logician, you are a lawyer. I hang out in Babylon 5 and comp.sys.... groups. Your fascination with the Nazis is perhaps an obvious professional affliction.
OSX is taking each 64 bit instruction (from 64 bit apps like Photoshop, for example) and breaking it into two 32 bit instructions which it sends one after the other to the CPU.
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If you want a President who kicks ass, vote for a Republican. If you want a President who kisses ass, vote for a Democrat. If you want a President who is an ass, vote Green. If you want a President who will let you buy ass, vote Libertarian.
Tikrit, Iraq: After coming out of hiding, international leftist hero Saddam Hussein has endorsed the presidential campaign of fellow traveler Howard Dean.
"I know that Howard Dean and I agree on nearly every political subject," said the freshly-shaved new Democrat icon. "I look forward to donating billions of dollars to his campaign war chest."
"I am delighted to gain the support of such an eminent statesman," said Howard Dean. "I look forward to implementing our shared vision for turning the whole world into a hellhole, starting with the United States."
When asked for comment, a spokesman for the Bush campaign said, "Oh, Democrats, you've gotta love 'em! They're willing to sell out their country just to win an election. They'll sleep with the KKK, the CWP, the PRC, and ugly fat chicks if it'll get a vote."
Hussein has become a symbol of left-wing solidarity and a shining hope of terrorist wannabes.
"After I am elected, I will work to change the Constitution, so that we can elect a great man like Saddam Hussein to the presidency," added Dean.
"I guess this means I'll be bowing out," lamented Green candidate Ralph Nader. "The combination of Dean and Hussein can implement the Worldwide Hellhole plan more effectively if I help them destroy the United States. I heartily endorse the anti-American views of Dean and Hussein, and will be consulting my advisors about the possibility of becoming a Democrat candidate for Vice-President," he added.
Libertarian and Natural Law Party campaigns could not be contacted.
The things you say are lies from Bush are actually invented by his political opponents. Go read his State of the Union message. You will not find any of your assertions in it.
I understand that leftists have a hard time reading words that are actually in print, and like to imagine all sorts of other words that aren't there, to make the world fit their stupid little retarded minds. So let's make it personal: I dare you to read Bush's State of the Union. Do not just swallow whatever shit dribbles from Howard Dean's ass. Go read the source material yourself:
Note especially that he said we cannot wait until the threat is imminent, not that the threat was imminent:
"Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike? If this threat is permitted to fully and suddenly emerge, all actions, all words, and all recriminations would come too late. Trusting in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein is not a strategy, and it is not an option. " -President of the United States of America, George Walker Bush
Also, go read (yeah, I know it's hard for you, but try) David Kay's report, available at any serious news outlet. It makes perfectly clear that Iraq's weapons programs were waiting for sanctions to be lifted. Just as pathetic Europeon countries wanted to do all along to aid their little leftist puppet Saddam. Remember the context of a year ago, when every moron on the planet was complaining that the sanctions were killing baby Iraqis, when Saddam had plenty of money for his palaces and was directly responsible for those deaths.
The leftists have destroyed the world's educational systems, and you're probably unable to overcome your political bias to be able to read the two documents I've suggested. But give it a try. You might find you enjoy reading things that challenge your assumptions.
But I suspect you think you're so superior to the President of the United States that you'll snort and close the window the first sentence you read that you don't agree with. You are so superior to David Kay, why didn't he just give you a call to ask about Iraq's weapons programs instead of going to Iraq? You're so smart, you're practically omniscient compared to President Bush and David Kay and Tony Blair. You don't even need to read a speech to know what it says. The Democrat Nazgul have told you what to think, and you are happy to believe them.
George Bush's foreign policy states that the US can invade when it feels that the justfication is there or that the justfication may soon be there.
As opposed to the US only being able to protect itself when France and Germany think it should?
YOU, bgfay, are an America-hating pile of shit. You'll hide behind freedoms you wouldn't have unless better people than you actively defended those freedoms. YOU are a parasite, a bloodsucker, a disease: YOU, BGFAY, ARE AN ENEMY OF HUMAN FREEDOM.
Please go kill yourself. Do us real humans, us genuine, freedom-loving people, a big favor, and just go kill yourself. You are a waste of oxygen, and deep down inside you know it. You are tying up valuable carbon which is better used to cook big beefy burgers. Indeed, the cattle from which the burgers come are far, far more intelligent than you! A bull will actively defend his herd. You are a parasite hiding in the herd, like your terrorist heroes. If you are an American you are a traitor and should be shot.
BGFAY IS A PILE OF STEAMING AMERICAN-HATING COW SHIT. Yes I am yelling. Go kill yourself, moron, and leave we, the living, to the serious business of liberation.
"Such...are a danger to the American people, and they will be defeated." -President of the United States of America George Walker Bush. Mr. President, I volunteer for firing squad duty when you round up all the little shits like BGFAY! I'll do my best to empty a few rounds into his extremities before delivering the killing shot. If the punishment is to fit the crime, we would need to kill him more than three thousand times, but since that is impossible, let's use him for target practice.
Okay this isn't really a spelling flame. But how can you criticize Dubya when you can't choose the correct words? Maybe English is not your first language. If it is your first language, well then you're an idiot English speaker. Maybe you are a Republican trolling by pretending to be a stereotypical frothing-at-the-mouth rabid dog Democrat.
"end in site"
That's "sight," imbecile.
"most nobel activity"
It's "noble" you stupid pile of shit.
"space fairing nations"
That's space faring nations. You're such a pathetic idiot. Please, just go crawl away and die. You're wasting oxygen that could be better put to use by the most brain-damaged jackass imaginable.
Bush is far from my ideal President. I've never voted for him. But I'm grown up and honest enough to understand that he is at least doing some things better than I or any number of leftist simpletons could. If all you can do is spout facile crap you heard from Michael Moore, you aren't smart enough nor are you honest enough to give Dubya a fair appraisal.
So go away and die. You know it's the right thing to do.
Kill youself! Do it! Kill yourself! Do it! Kill yourself! Do it!
Anyway, if English is not your first language, then please ignore the flamage and take it as constructive criticism!
Other Slashdotters more literate than I have noted that David Gerrold had a virus in a 1972 Harley Davidson story. I suspect it was from his usage that the Austin gaming community picked it up. That makes a lot of sense. There are connections between Gerrold and gaming.
Fred Cohen is mistaken
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20 Years of Virii
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Fred Cohen **DID NOT** coin the term "computer virus" 20 years ago. He may think he did, or he may be a liar. The term was **ALREADY IN USE** in 1979, some three or four years before the event described in News.com. I would guess that the person who coined the term was an associate/customer of Steve Jackson, who at the time was producing "microgames," like Ogre and GEV. It is from the players of these games that "virus" began to be applied to computer programs.
By 1982, there were mutant versions of Apple ][ DOS that were called viruses.
By 1986, the DoD was soliciting RFPs through the SBIR program for people to write viruses.
Cohen and News.com are completely and totally **WRONG** about the coinage of the term. An academic and a news outlet: nobody should be surpised they're full of sh!t.
Don't you wish reporters and scientists would quit naming theories and events after movies?
It's getting to be so bad that the first step in research seems to be, "find a catchy name." It's more important than funding, more important even than the subject of the research. A catchy name will help get funding and therefore should determine the direction of research.
Perhaps it started in the 80s when reporters derided SDI with the title, "Star Wars." It continued with "Out of Africa" in anthropology. Now every weather event is "The Perfect Storm."
We all know that reporters are stupid. But that's no reason to dumb down science so it fits in a movie title!
Which led to numerous Mac users enlightening us lowly PC peons about how processor clock alone does not determine processor performance, a fact which many of us had been aware of long before the release of the Motorola G4.
Dude, we've been making these arguments since the 68000 days.
Must -- not -- respond -- to -- trolling -- anonymous -- coward -- must -- not -- respond....
Can someone explain to me why I should buy A Mac when I can get a faster PC for less?
Why would anyone pay $2000+ for a Paul Reed Smith guitar when they could get a Fender Squire for $200? Why do people pay millions for Stradivarius violins?
A Mac is like a fine musical instrument. It usually isn't "just a tool." Attention to detail, fit and finish figure into the value.
Apple can compete by providing machines at that price I am sure, but as OSX really does need a bit more horsepower to get the best out of it, then you really need to spend more to beef it up.
An $800 eMac has 800MHz G4, which is plenty enough to run OS X.
To get the best out of any operating system, you need next year's hardware!
I hate sitting in one place basically doing nothing for more than 5 mins.
Tibetan Buddhism has plenty for you to do! There are elaborate visualizations to construct, as illustrated in the art form called "Thangkas" -- Google(Thangka). Accomplished yogins can visualize these with perfect clarity, and it's much more than just memorizing pictures: each implement, gesture, grouping, seating, and posture reflects a specific attitude that guides toward Awakening. After the visualization is created it is "completed" by dissolving it into the Great Space of Mind. Like the sand mandalas Tibetan monks make and destroy, very much like that!
I can barely visualize mantra syllables rendered in Roman alphabet. However, I'm a musician, and I can memorize long and complicated (progressive rock) guitar parts, so I have an appreciation for the astonishing amount of brain-power it must take to hold such visualizations steady. Behold:
The creation state imaginative manipulation of the jewel plasma of Buddha forms continues in extravagant detail, getting ever more subtle, until it reaches a point where one becomes capable of visualizing the entire mandala palace and occupants as contained within a shining drop at the tip of the nose, heart center, or genitals, and of holding that precise hologram stable for several hours. -Robert A.F. Thurman (
Uma's father!), commentary to his translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
These mandalas frequently have a hundred or so deities. If you're a programmer, you can easily think of the Meditation Deities as objects, so holding the hologram steady would be like holding the whole API to a 100-class framework steady in mind, certainly do-able but not without work.
BTW, I'm still a materialist and have no belief in the supernatural elements of Tibetan Buddhism. I map those functions on to Vorlons or Goa'uld and go ahead and make the calls!
If you learn Dream Yoga or Lucid Dreaming then you can meditate in your dreams -- it's like a teep in hyperspace! It will happen automagically if you meditate enough. But you can help the process:
Visualize your dream
Record it in the present tense
If you persist in your efforts,
You can achieve Dream Control.
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Heisenberg's Physics and Beyond is, on the other hand, a brilliant chronicle of the development of quantum physics. Heisenberg's disgust at faculty loyalty oaths and other trappings of National Socialism is clear. Heinsenberg also records the brilliance and humor of his colleagues, like Wolfgang Pauli, "There is no God and Dirac is His prophet!" Heisenberg is quite gracious to Einstein, so it is sad Einstein couldn't rise above his petty bitterness to all things quantum (what a cranky idiot savant).
Since this is Slashdot, there is of course no need to urge folks to read Stan Ulam's Adventures of a Mathematician. Y'all got it next to Feynman on your shelves, right?
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Also, who would expect Mike to even know the meaning of "slander?" Slander is Mike's MO! I tried to teach him logic, but Boole conflicted with his worldview. He too much enjoyed non sequitur to ever give real logical argumentation even a try. Lawyering is just a matter of convincing a judge or jury of your viewpoint, and is not at all concerned with real decent argumentation. Perhaps, thousands of years ago, lawyers were trained in logic.
But nowadays, bluster and bullshit are the tools of their trade. We have completely kludged laws as the result.
Slashdot is supposed to be "News for Nerds." As the people who built the communications networks, we should be very careful about letting lesser professions try to control our work. The last smart lawyer was Leibniz, today's batch is nothing but parasitic imbeciles with advanced college infections.
We don't need to kill all the lawyers. We need only de-kludge the law so we don't need so many lawyers.
Beware the lawyer who speaks of "freedom." In their parlance, it is a synonym for "control."
Mike formulated his Nazi quip because he got tired of being compared to (other) Nazis. I know, I was there, he did it on my hardware.
Again, either you misheard or misremembered, or you are a liar and you are lying for attention, which is a form of trolling.
Mike: why do you hang out on so many Nazi-oriented newsgroups?
There are very few Nazi references in places where decent people go.
But I am a Practical Logician, you are a lawyer. I hang out in Babylon 5 and comp.sys.... groups. Your fascination with the Nazis is perhaps an obvious professional affliction.
Enterprise sucks more than the vacuum of space itself.
Enterprise is the new low. Decades from now, when a TV show sucks, people will say "well, it was better than Enterprise."
Enterprise sucks so bad that BLACK HOLES glow green with envy.
OUCH - my inronimeter is pegged! (and it's a Fluke digital)
You must be making a joke here, right?
IBM keeps some PowerPC documentation here,
http://www-306.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/p roductfamilies/PowerPC
if you're interested in how they really work.
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If you want a President who kicks ass, vote for a Republican. If you want a President who kisses ass, vote for a Democrat. If you want a President who is an ass, vote Green. If you want a President who will let you buy ass, vote Libertarian.
"I know that Howard Dean and I agree on nearly every political subject," said the freshly-shaved new Democrat icon. "I look forward to donating billions of dollars to his campaign war chest."
"I am delighted to gain the support of such an eminent statesman," said Howard Dean. "I look forward to implementing our shared vision for turning the whole world into a hellhole, starting with the United States."
When asked for comment, a spokesman for the Bush campaign said, "Oh, Democrats, you've gotta love 'em! They're willing to sell out their country just to win an election. They'll sleep with the KKK, the CWP, the PRC, and ugly fat chicks if it'll get a vote."
Hussein has become a symbol of left-wing solidarity and a shining hope of terrorist wannabes.
"After I am elected, I will work to change the Constitution, so that we can elect a great man like Saddam Hussein to the presidency," added Dean.
"I guess this means I'll be bowing out," lamented Green candidate Ralph Nader. "The combination of Dean and Hussein can implement the Worldwide Hellhole plan more effectively if I help them destroy the United States. I heartily endorse the anti-American views of Dean and Hussein, and will be consulting my advisors about the possibility of becoming a Democrat candidate for Vice-President," he added.
Libertarian and Natural Law Party campaigns could not be contacted.
I understand that leftists have a hard time reading words that are actually in print, and like to imagine all sorts of other words that aren't there, to make the world fit their stupid little retarded minds. So let's make it personal: I dare you to read Bush's State of the Union. Do not just swallow whatever shit dribbles from Howard Dean's ass. Go read the source material yourself:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20 030128-19.html
Note especially that he said we cannot wait until the threat is imminent, not that the threat was imminent:
"Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike? If this threat is permitted to fully and suddenly emerge, all actions, all words, and all recriminations would come too late. Trusting in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein is not a strategy, and it is not an option. " -President of the United States of America, George Walker Bush
Also, go read (yeah, I know it's hard for you, but try) David Kay's report, available at any serious news outlet. It makes perfectly clear that Iraq's weapons programs were waiting for sanctions to be lifted. Just as pathetic Europeon countries wanted to do all along to aid their little leftist puppet Saddam. Remember the context of a year ago, when every moron on the planet was complaining that the sanctions were killing baby Iraqis, when Saddam had plenty of money for his palaces and was directly responsible for those deaths.
The leftists have destroyed the world's educational systems, and you're probably unable to overcome your political bias to be able to read the two documents I've suggested. But give it a try. You might find you enjoy reading things that challenge your assumptions.
But I suspect you think you're so superior to the President of the United States that you'll snort and close the window the first sentence you read that you don't agree with. You are so superior to David Kay, why didn't he just give you a call to ask about Iraq's weapons programs instead of going to Iraq? You're so smart, you're practically omniscient compared to President Bush and David Kay and Tony Blair. You don't even need to read a speech to know what it says. The Democrat Nazgul have told you what to think, and you are happy to believe them.
As opposed to the US only being able to protect itself when France and Germany think it should?
YOU, bgfay, are an America-hating pile of shit. You'll hide behind freedoms you wouldn't have unless better people than you actively defended those freedoms. YOU are a parasite, a bloodsucker, a disease: YOU, BGFAY, ARE AN ENEMY OF HUMAN FREEDOM.
Please go kill yourself. Do us real humans, us genuine, freedom-loving people, a big favor, and just go kill yourself. You are a waste of oxygen, and deep down inside you know it. You are tying up valuable carbon which is better used to cook big beefy burgers. Indeed, the cattle from which the burgers come are far, far more intelligent than you! A bull will actively defend his herd. You are a parasite hiding in the herd, like your terrorist heroes. If you are an American you are a traitor and should be shot.
BGFAY IS A PILE OF STEAMING AMERICAN-HATING COW SHIT. Yes I am yelling. Go kill yourself, moron, and leave we, the living, to the serious business of liberation.
"Such...are a danger to the American people, and they will be defeated." -President of the United States of America George Walker Bush. Mr. President, I volunteer for firing squad duty when you round up all the little shits like BGFAY! I'll do my best to empty a few rounds into his extremities before delivering the killing shot. If the punishment is to fit the crime, we would need to kill him more than three thousand times, but since that is impossible, let's use him for target practice.
This "Battlestar Galactica" is much better than "Enterprise" ...
And so was the 1970's "Battlestar Galactica!!"
"end in site"
That's "sight," imbecile.
"most nobel activity"
It's "noble" you stupid pile of shit.
"space fairing nations"
That's space faring nations. You're such a pathetic idiot. Please, just go crawl away and die. You're wasting oxygen that could be better put to use by the most brain-damaged jackass imaginable.
Bush is far from my ideal President. I've never voted for him. But I'm grown up and honest enough to understand that he is at least doing some things better than I or any number of leftist simpletons could. If all you can do is spout facile crap you heard from Michael Moore, you aren't smart enough nor are you honest enough to give Dubya a fair appraisal.
So go away and die. You know it's the right thing to do.
Kill youself! Do it! Kill yourself! Do it! Kill yourself! Do it!
Anyway, if English is not your first language, then please ignore the flamage and take it as constructive criticism!
Other Slashdotters more literate than I have noted that David Gerrold had a virus in a 1972 Harley Davidson story. I suspect it was from his usage that the Austin gaming community picked it up. That makes a lot of sense. There are connections between Gerrold and gaming.
By 1982, there were mutant versions of Apple ][ DOS that were called viruses.
By 1986, the DoD was soliciting RFPs through the SBIR program for people to write viruses.
Cohen and News.com are completely and totally **WRONG** about the coinage of the term. An academic and a news outlet: nobody should be surpised they're full of sh!t.
It's getting to be so bad that the first step in research seems to be, "find a catchy name." It's more important than funding, more important even than the subject of the research. A catchy name will help get funding and therefore should determine the direction of research.
Perhaps it started in the 80s when reporters derided SDI with the title, "Star Wars." It continued with "Out of Africa" in anthropology. Now every weather event is "The Perfect Storm."
We all know that reporters are stupid. But that's no reason to dumb down science so it fits in a movie title!
Science should not be controlled by Oliver Stone.
Dude, we've been making these arguments since the 68000 days.
An American war is less deadly than the "peace" of our enemies.
Can someone explain to me why I should buy A Mac when I can get a faster PC for less?
Why would anyone pay $2000+ for a Paul Reed Smith guitar when they could get a Fender Squire for $200? Why do people pay millions for Stradivarius violins?
A Mac is like a fine musical instrument. It usually isn't "just a tool." Attention to detail, fit and finish figure into the value.
A Mac is like a fine musical instrument.
GOOD!
An $800 eMac has 800MHz G4, which is plenty enough to run OS X.
To get the best out of any operating system, you need next year's hardware!
Tibetan Buddhism has plenty for you to do! There are elaborate visualizations to construct, as illustrated in the art form called "Thangkas" -- Google(Thangka). Accomplished yogins can visualize these with perfect clarity, and it's much more than just memorizing pictures: each implement, gesture, grouping, seating, and posture reflects a specific attitude that guides toward Awakening. After the visualization is created it is "completed" by dissolving it into the Great Space of Mind. Like the sand mandalas Tibetan monks make and destroy, very much like that!
I can barely visualize mantra syllables rendered in Roman alphabet. However, I'm a musician, and I can memorize long and complicated (progressive rock) guitar parts, so I have an appreciation for the astonishing amount of brain-power it must take to hold such visualizations steady. Behold:
These mandalas frequently have a hundred or so deities. If you're a programmer, you can easily think of the Meditation Deities as objects, so holding the hologram steady would be like holding the whole API to a 100-class framework steady in mind, certainly do-able but not without work.
BTW, I'm still a materialist and have no belief in the supernatural elements of Tibetan Buddhism. I map those functions on to Vorlons or Goa'uld and go ahead and make the calls!
Visualize your dream
Record it in the present tense
If you persist in your efforts,
You can achieve Dream Control.
Lamrim.com broadcasts Tibetan Buddhist teachings. Of special importance to Reality Hackers is the Dalai Lama participating in a Mind Sciences Conference.
It would scare the hell out of all the leftist ninnies like Saddam and the Europeons!