I had several issues and tasks that I wished to perform on an ubuntu install on my now-deceased old machine.
Some were easy to find, but some involved wading through page after page of contradictory forum advice, or advice that seemed to completely disable my network adaptor. Things that I had expected to be possible through a GUI required pasting invalid forum syntax into system-critical files, sometimes with unpleasant results.
I was using linux only because I had to (producing dedicated server binaries for a source mod server), and my task was pretty non-trivial for a first-time user. I really did try to enjoy the experience... but I found it largely cumbersome, and haven't been back. Which is a shame, tbh, cos I'd like to like it.
The main problem, for me, was that it felt like for every task I wanted to perform, I had to find an expert person on a forum who already knew precisely how to achieve said task. There was usually little possibility of the self-discovery that is generally possible with an intuitive GUI, in the areas where a GUI was lacking.
With hindsight, it would have been more efficient to have just paid an expert to produce the binary for me. Or better yet, to set up my environment the way I wanted it.
Protestantism is designed, at least in part, to counter this tendency.
See the fundamental principals shared by (almost) all protestant denominations... specifically, Justification by Faith Alone and the Universal Priesthood of Believers - essentially the idea that there is nothing one can do to become "holier" or "better" than fellow believers, and following from that, the abolishment of any form of heirarchal system. That all members should (in principle) take part in, or at least be represented in, the entirety of any decision making process.
So, instead of power concentrating in the hands of an elect few, the whole organisation splits up into several. Repeatedly. And usually acrimoniously. So that sucks, but its probably better than the alternative...
You're confusing "monotheistic" religion (one with a single supernatural being in charge), with "patriarchal" religion (one with a single, mortal being in charge). Monotheistic religion without centralised power and a "top-down" structure is, it would seem to me, a lot more resistant to corruption than a patriarchal religion, simply because there are no "head honchos" to corrupt.
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Silly american grading system.:) Over the pond, 50-100% is the range of pass grades used in university courses, allowing for much greater granularity. You can get through on 45% at a pinch, as long as you average 50 or more.
Problem is, some of us can see right through those...
Those of us that do IT support for friends & family know that Someone Else's Problems have a nasty habit of becoming Our problems at a moment's notice.
This application would, yes. But this is very closely related to the work on designing metamaterials to deflect light around a spherical object rather than to simply absorb it.
It strikes me now that it would be completely back as seen from the inside, however, which would limit its usability unless you mounted cameras around the rim.
How much energy does it "take?"
Its a metamaterial structure, and the refractive properties are caused by its shape alone.
That said, all that incident EM radiation is gonna really heat it up... so if you were going to put a solar panel in the middle, as the article describes, then it will likely require cooling if its placed in bright conditions.
Unless they're very clever with creating it, such that only wavelengths usable by the solar panel are refracted into the centre. Anyway, if they think they can do that by the end of 2009, can they make me a man-sized invisible hamsterball? Invisible zorbing would be an interesting experience.
Its a single global server (with multiple instances of each zone), which works a lot better than I would have expected. But that means there are no RP servers.
Also known as lag compensation. Its either that or you have to aim at where your target will be in the future, once your ping time has elapsed. While I do prefer the former, doing something clever rather than doing nothing seems like the opposite of "retarded" to me.
Mobile phone and internet are certainly revolutionary from a social point of view.
Technologically, however, pretty much all progress is incremental.
Tele-visual radio transmissions built upon radio transmissions of sound, which built upon radio transmissions of morse, which built upon wired transmission of morse, so on and so on. Each of these had dramatic social consequences, but technologically, they were still incremental - even if the increment was large in some cases
There are obvious reasons that the internet wasn't invented in the 19th century, or that television wasn't invented in the 17th. They had to invent microchips and radio first.
I'd contend that it isn't possible to say that the rate of technological progress has slowed significantly in the last 5 years, as to do so properly would require enough time to observe the full range of social effects, once economics and continued development allow things to propagate out of the lab and into society.
Thats half-way there. Observe, then theorise, then make a prediction, and test that.
The problem is that we have General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, and both describe their own domains very well (the very large and very small, respectively) - but we have no way of combining the two into a single, unified theory.
String theory in its various permutations could be (partial) theoretical solutions to this, but coming up with testable predictions of such theories (such as large-amplitude gravitational waves) is horrendously tricky. Indeed, some theories are pretty much untestable by definition - many string theories have been considered to come into this category.
So we have our observation (GR and QM both work well, but are hard to unify), we have many predictions (string theories, etc), and now we have a test of many such theories in the form of this experiment.
"Observe then theorise" is all well and good, but when you can't you can test predictions of your theory, its not worth much.
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I had several issues and tasks that I wished to perform on an ubuntu install on my now-deceased old machine.
Some were easy to find, but some involved wading through page after page of contradictory forum advice, or advice that seemed to completely disable my network adaptor. Things that I had expected to be possible through a GUI required pasting invalid forum syntax into system-critical files, sometimes with unpleasant results.
I was using linux only because I had to (producing dedicated server binaries for a source mod server), and my task was pretty non-trivial for a first-time user. I really did try to enjoy the experience... but I found it largely cumbersome, and haven't been back. Which is a shame, tbh, cos I'd like to like it.
The main problem, for me, was that it felt like for every task I wanted to perform, I had to find an expert person on a forum who already knew precisely how to achieve said task. There was usually little possibility of the self-discovery that is generally possible with an intuitive GUI, in the areas where a GUI was lacking.
With hindsight, it would have been more efficient to have just paid an expert to produce the binary for me. Or better yet, to set up my environment the way I wanted it.
Protestantism is designed, at least in part, to counter this tendency. See the fundamental principals shared by (almost) all protestant denominations... specifically, Justification by Faith Alone and the Universal Priesthood of Believers - essentially the idea that there is nothing one can do to become "holier" or "better" than fellow believers, and following from that, the abolishment of any form of heirarchal system. That all members should (in principle) take part in, or at least be represented in, the entirety of any decision making process.
So, instead of power concentrating in the hands of an elect few, the whole organisation splits up into several. Repeatedly. And usually acrimoniously. So that sucks, but its probably better than the alternative...
Win8's new critical stop sound:
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATES!!!!
Sorry.
What can Windows 8 do that can't be done with Windows 7?
128 bit, I think we heard previously.
I certainly know people who treat soccer like a religious activity - complete with its own crusades and everything.
Cos those buddist monks are totally in it for the epic lewt?
You're confusing "monotheistic" religion (one with a single supernatural being in charge), with "patriarchal" religion (one with a single, mortal being in charge). Monotheistic religion without centralised power and a "top-down" structure is, it would seem to me, a lot more resistant to corruption than a patriarchal religion, simply because there are no "head honchos" to corrupt.
Silly american grading system. :) Over the pond, 50-100% is the range of pass grades used in university courses, allowing for much greater granularity. You can get through on 45% at a pinch, as long as you average 50 or more.
Pfft. Real people use beans.
Monochrome telly with none of the headaches that this 3d nonsense gives the rest of us!
That's nothing; you remember the Crotch Shot mutator? :)
America is only a subset of humanity.
Problem is, some of us can see right through those...
Those of us that do IT support for friends & family know that Someone Else's Problems have a nasty habit of becoming Our problems at a moment's notice.
It helps get it in new scientist. Thats about it.
This application would, yes. But this is very closely related to the work on designing metamaterials to deflect light around a spherical object rather than to simply absorb it.
It strikes me now that it would be completely back as seen from the inside, however, which would limit its usability unless you mounted cameras around the rim.
How much energy does it "take?" Its a metamaterial structure, and the refractive properties are caused by its shape alone.
... so if you were going to put a solar panel in the middle, as the article describes, then it will likely require cooling if its placed in bright conditions.
That said, all that incident EM radiation is gonna really heat it up
Unless they're very clever with creating it, such that only wavelengths usable by the solar panel are refracted into the centre. Anyway, if they think they can do that by the end of 2009, can they make me a man-sized invisible hamsterball? Invisible zorbing would be an interesting experience.
mismatch between the task to be performed and the funds that are available to support those tasks
And congress reject this. They call this "voicing support?" Sounds like a death sentence to the higher-ups at NASA to me...
Its a single global server (with multiple instances of each zone), which works a lot better than I would have expected. But that means there are no RP servers.
Its an MMO. It costs the same as all the other MMOs: £8.99, or however many shells thats equivalent to in your local money
I didn't particularly enjoy the tutorial, but once that's out of the way, things improved immensely.
Frankly, no one remotely sceptical of such things would consider buying it, so ... yeah.
Also known as lag compensation. Its either that or you have to aim at where your target will be in the future, once your ping time has elapsed. While I do prefer the former, doing something clever rather than doing nothing seems like the opposite of "retarded" to me.
Mobile phone and internet are certainly revolutionary from a social point of view.
Technologically, however, pretty much all progress is incremental.
Tele-visual radio transmissions built upon radio transmissions of sound, which built upon radio transmissions of morse, which built upon wired transmission of morse, so on and so on. Each of these had dramatic social consequences, but technologically, they were still incremental - even if the increment was large in some cases
There are obvious reasons that the internet wasn't invented in the 19th century, or that television wasn't invented in the 17th. They had to invent microchips and radio first.
I'd contend that it isn't possible to say that the rate of technological progress has slowed significantly in the last 5 years, as to do so properly would require enough time to observe the full range of social effects, once economics and continued development allow things to propagate out of the lab and into society.
Thats half-way there. Observe, then theorise, then make a prediction, and test that. The problem is that we have General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, and both describe their own domains very well (the very large and very small, respectively) - but we have no way of combining the two into a single, unified theory.
String theory in its various permutations could be (partial) theoretical solutions to this, but coming up with testable predictions of such theories (such as large-amplitude gravitational waves) is horrendously tricky. Indeed, some theories are pretty much untestable by definition - many string theories have been considered to come into this category.
So we have our observation (GR and QM both work well, but are hard to unify), we have many predictions (string theories, etc), and now we have a test of many such theories in the form of this experiment.
"Observe then theorise" is all well and good, but when you can't you can test predictions of your theory, its not worth much.
Actually, if the unit really were dollar-metres, only a lunatic would put one part at the front, and the other at the end.
... also known as 30 cents.
What you actually have here is 300 millidollars
All in all, not a bad investment!