The whole reason naked singularities are an issue is that relativity breaks in their presence - and the current theories do not rule them out. A made up "cosmic censor" is nice and all but doesn't really cut it.
Finding a case where the current models produce a naked singularity in "realistic" conditions would blow the cosmic censor thing out of the water. Which is in fact a big deal.
Trying and failing is less of a big deal, but worth mentioning since others may see a flaw in the simulation or not bother doing the exact same thing, or see a tweak they can make, and so on.
Maybe you could look up "event horizon" and see that it has nothing to do with the physical size of stuff. It's just the distance from some item of mass where the escape velocity from its gravity is equal to the speed of light.
And of course the "collapse into itself and disappear" is the entire singularity problem (except it doesn't disappear - there's that silly law of thermodynamics and matter/energy equivalence to get in the way)...
Because if their simulation had created a naked singularity it would be interesting. That it doesn't isn't, since that's the expected result - but just because they "failed" as such doesn't mean they should pretend they didn't try anything.
And yes, it may have nothing to do with the actual universe. Seeing what the current theories produce is an important part of science.
No it's giving money away to every "I call myself a home owner, but really I rent money from the bank instead of renting from a landlord" idiot who borrowed more than they can afford to pay.
And why should my tax dollars (well more likely my savings due to inflation, since I didn't notice a tax increase to fund this crap in that bill) be given to American "homeowners", of all people. Also if homeowners are the issue, why not buy their damn houses off them at inflated values and skip the middle man? Everyone who bought a house under financing that could only be maintained with appreciation at multiples of the historic norm deserves to lose it. And the bank deserves to lose the money they lent to that idiot. And the buyer of the derived securities deserve to lose their money too. Any idiot could see this was going to happen, back in 2004 - the only bizarro thing is that the the scheme ran for so long.
When home prices double in a few years, then guess what, they need to drop 50% to get back to a reasonable price. I guess you think pets.com needed a bail out too - just think of all those investors losing their money when that bubble also popped. But it doesn't matter how big a bailout the Government does a median house can not be priced at more than 2.5 times the medium income - unless no one lives in them other than people funded by the Government I guess.
Anyway, it doesn't matter what the Government does, they can't stop this tsanumi. They can delay it a bit (which is good for them, makes it the next guys problem).
When you lose trillions of dollars the piper has to be paid. That knock on affect to the rest of the financial sector failing due to counterparties failing is because, shock horror, when you don't price in the risk that is obviously there you tend to end up insolvent and bankrupt.
On the bright side, since the Government can only delay (and make larger) the inevitable, the recipients of this bailout are screwed anyway. On the not so bright side, so it the US economy and the rest of the people.
We'll see the benefit shorts give in a dropping market since shorting financials was banned. So now when the bottom falls out there'll be no one covering their shorts and providing a floor for the price - instead it'll just keep on-a-dropping.
Gravitational effects travels at the speed of light.
Hence the light from the distant object having a gravitational affect on what we are observing must have reached the point we are observing
Since light travels at the same speed it continues to us and arrives at the same time as what we are observing. Of course that's if those objects and us are in a line - if not then non-uniform expansion or universe in which the distance from us->X is greater than the distance from us->Y + the distance from Y->X would make this unable to see the object we can see the effects of thing happen (I don't think either of those things are true where we live).
Windows XP comes with IE, and yet installing firefox isn't that uncommon. You think Microsoft should disallow that since they feel is has "no difference from an existing, core application"?
When playing poker all those regulations on the casino don't matter so much, since you aren't playing against the house (they make the same amount of money no matter who wins - more action benefits them, but that's hardly worth the risk of cheating).
Other players cheating is the problem. It is *really* easy to collude online and in a casino. Heads up is the simple remedy against that and that is much more practical online.
Of course online sites with huge backdoors might tilt it back to casinos, at least for high stakes.
Playing against the house games at an online casino is obviously insane, I agree there.
At least online you can play heads up only and hence remove the collusion form of cheating. You obviously can't avoid the AP style "cheater can see your cards" stuff - then again you do also bump into players who are better than you and lose to them - this just makes another one of them. As long as you have a small enough ego (and play heads up poker, yeah right!) and don't go back for more, that shouldn't make a significant dent in the win rate.
$150/GB so the $37,500 a month from that one big downloader easily covers 100 paying customers, in fact they make 10x as much.
So instead of a cap which people complain about, an overage charge that has the big downloaders begging to be cut off. Some other ISP will offer cheaper overage rates when they see it can still be profitable to have those big downloaders
Yes, you play against people who are worse than you. That's pretty obvious.
Such people are very easy find in casinos. Thank you TV poker!
The most important skill in poker is table selection - much more important than the actual playing of the game. Need to find the idiots and know when to change to a better table...
Unless you live rent with included utilities, then the simple system for commodity utilities is: fixed cost and then a rate per unit, often with a fixed amount that is "free" (as in you only get charged per unit over it - clearly you paid for it in the fixed cost).
Which is exactly how ISPs worked when I wasn't in the US - You paid $X/month for Y GB and then paid Z cents per MB over that. At any reasonable ISP they also offered $X/month for Y GB and then the connection is throttled to something a bit better than dial up for those who don't want a huge bill because the kid decided to download the internet.
Just a cap is stupid, a cap at which you start paying makes sense if bandwidth is limited.
If bandwidth is larger than demand then just like fixed line phones you'll get unlimited plans popping up...
It's not just cherry picking - which wouldn't matter so much in itself. Drugs are very hit and miss you expect lots of things to just not work.
The problem is they study drugs X, Y, and Z in combination and find that not only does it not help it makes the patients worse. They don't bother publishing since they didn't get anything useful out of it and no one is going to cite them...
A year later another group decides to study X, Y, and Z in combination. So a pointless study that harms patients is done because this second group never found out about the previous study in their literature search.
It's clearly revenue positive. Those coupons made it easier to make the transition. They are getting orders of magnitude more revenue from selling the freed up spectrum than they spend on coupons...
Since those admins are doing the selling. And inflation means people won't be able to afford as many things with thee gold they get from in-game play and hence will have to buy stuff from them. Adding to inflation some more, and hence making buying stuff even more likely...
I suspect they understand it just fine.
Of course they could manage it the other way and have fixed price sellers for all items that way inflation doesn't happen - instead newbies get given whatever the best gear is the moment they join by other players with so much gold they can't use it all...
Rather than a line-item veto - which opens up huge gaming the system options, by vetoing part of something which significantly changes the effect of the rest - would be not having damn riders in the first place.
Of course then the garbage legislation the lobbyists pay for wouldn't be passable, and hence the checks would stop coming. So that isn't happening...
There's a retard involved here, but it isn't Moore.
First, the notion that the music industry should not have stopped selling CDs is simply asinine. I'm in my 40s and even I don't buy CDs anymore. They're outdated, obsolete, and completely unnecessary. The market has spoken, consumers don't want to buy music on shiny plastic anymore.
Which is exactly what he said "I am not going to be at the helm of a company that ends up like the music business that refused to stop trying to sell you CDs for £15 because it was a hugely profitable model" - he's using the music business refusing to stop trying to sell you CDs as the bad example, ipso facto his notion is they should have stopped.
Second, the implication that the music industry should not have started selling singles again shows what an ass he is. And it also shows he knows nothing about the music industry. I grew up with music in the 70s and 80s. Back then we had the 45 single. If you didn't want to buy the whole record, you'd buy the singles for about a buck each. About the same price as a song off of iTunes or Amazon. Which is an awesome deal considering inflation.
Again you are agreeing with what he said. "Steve Jobs comes to the rescue to figure out a way to charge you 99 cents", in other word's the music industry was too dumb to do it but Apple did and he thinks that's a good thing (the word "rescue" is a hint there)...
And of course this shows what an ass Moore is because he honestly believes that the music industry should ignore the demands of its customers and force them to buy what they do not want. That's exactly the reason the music industry is in trouble in the first place. If that's what Moore is going to do with the gaming industry, I give it five years tops!
He gave itune singles as an example of a good thing, and the music industry wanting to keep everything on CDs as a bad thing - so clearly he thinks no such thing.
And last but not least, third. Exactly how is Apple ripping customers off who buy songs off of iTunes?! God, if you're going to say something that stupid, you should at least attempt to support your argument with facts. Heck, you should at least make an argument. He just concludes it as true.
79p is almost US$1.50. He considers the UK itunes buyers as being ripped off because they are paying 50% more than US buyers.
Seriously every single thing you read in that paragraph you managed to interpret in the opposite way than it clearly means. English has never seen such a great success at failure.
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The whole reason naked singularities are an issue is that relativity breaks in their presence - and the current theories do not rule them out. A made up "cosmic censor" is nice and all but doesn't really cut it.
Finding a case where the current models produce a naked singularity in "realistic" conditions would blow the cosmic censor thing out of the water. Which is in fact a big deal.
Trying and failing is less of a big deal, but worth mentioning since others may see a flaw in the simulation or not bother doing the exact same thing, or see a tweak they can make, and so on.
Maybe you could look up "event horizon" and see that it has nothing to do with the physical size of stuff. It's just the distance from some item of mass where the escape velocity from its gravity is equal to the speed of light.
And of course the "collapse into itself and disappear" is the entire singularity problem (except it doesn't disappear - there's that silly law of thermodynamics and matter/energy equivalence to get in the way)...
Because if their simulation had created a naked singularity it would be interesting. That it doesn't isn't, since that's the expected result - but just because they "failed" as such doesn't mean they should pretend they didn't try anything.
And yes, it may have nothing to do with the actual universe. Seeing what the current theories produce is an important part of science.
They're fixing that coolant leak. Calling them hot is just uncalled for.
No it's giving money away to every "I call myself a home owner, but really I rent money from the bank instead of renting from a landlord" idiot who borrowed more than they can afford to pay.
And why should my tax dollars (well more likely my savings due to inflation, since I didn't notice a tax increase to fund this crap in that bill) be given to American "homeowners", of all people. Also if homeowners are the issue, why not buy their damn houses off them at inflated values and skip the middle man? Everyone who bought a house under financing that could only be maintained with appreciation at multiples of the historic norm deserves to lose it. And the bank deserves to lose the money they lent to that idiot. And the buyer of the derived securities deserve to lose their money too. Any idiot could see this was going to happen, back in 2004 - the only bizarro thing is that the the scheme ran for so long.
When home prices double in a few years, then guess what, they need to drop 50% to get back to a reasonable price. I guess you think pets.com needed a bail out too - just think of all those investors losing their money when that bubble also popped. But it doesn't matter how big a bailout the Government does a median house can not be priced at more than 2.5 times the medium income - unless no one lives in them other than people funded by the Government I guess.
Anyway, it doesn't matter what the Government does, they can't stop this tsanumi. They can delay it a bit (which is good for them, makes it the next guys problem).
When you lose trillions of dollars the piper has to be paid. That knock on affect to the rest of the financial sector failing due to counterparties failing is because, shock horror, when you don't price in the risk that is obviously there you tend to end up insolvent and bankrupt.
On the bright side, since the Government can only delay (and make larger) the inevitable, the recipients of this bailout are screwed anyway. On the not so bright side, so it the US economy and the rest of the people.
Intentionally overpaying is by definition giving money away.
We'll see the benefit shorts give in a dropping market since shorting financials was banned. So now when the bottom falls out there'll be no one covering their shorts and providing a floor for the price - instead it'll just keep on-a-dropping.
you picked up during the 7 hours of the day you play video games on the company computers.
Gravitational effects travels at the speed of light.
Hence the light from the distant object having a gravitational affect on what we are observing must have reached the point we are observing
Since light travels at the same speed it continues to us and arrives at the same time as what we are observing. Of course that's if those objects and us are in a line - if not then non-uniform expansion or universe in which the distance from us->X is greater than the distance from us->Y + the distance from Y->X would make this unable to see the object we can see the effects of thing happen (I don't think either of those things are true where we live).
Why?
Windows XP comes with IE, and yet installing firefox isn't that uncommon. You think Microsoft should disallow that since they feel is has "no difference from an existing, core application"?
I'm not allowed a preference?
When playing poker all those regulations on the casino don't matter so much, since you aren't playing against the house (they make the same amount of money no matter who wins - more action benefits them, but that's hardly worth the risk of cheating).
Other players cheating is the problem. It is *really* easy to collude online and in a casino. Heads up is the simple remedy against that and that is much more practical online.
Of course online sites with huge backdoors might tilt it back to casinos, at least for high stakes.
Playing against the house games at an online casino is obviously insane, I agree there.
At least online you can play head up without any wait.
You can't ensure in a casino either...
At least online you can play heads up only and hence remove the collusion form of cheating. You obviously can't avoid the AP style "cheater can see your cards" stuff - then again you do also bump into players who are better than you and lose to them - this just makes another one of them. As long as you have a small enough ego (and play heads up poker, yeah right!) and don't go back for more, that shouldn't make a significant dent in the win rate.
You obviously haven't seen overage charges in action.
For example: http://my.bigpond.com/internetplans/broadband/cable/fineprint.jsp
$150/GB so the $37,500 a month from that one big downloader easily covers 100 paying customers, in fact they make 10x as much.
So instead of a cap which people complain about, an overage charge that has the big downloaders begging to be cut off. Some other ISP will offer cheaper overage rates when they see it can still be profitable to have those big downloaders
Yes, you play against people who are worse than you. That's pretty obvious.
Such people are very easy find in casinos. Thank you TV poker!
The most important skill in poker is table selection - much more important than the actual playing of the game. Need to find the idiots and know when to change to a better table...
Unlimited water?
Unlimited gas?
Unlimited cell phone calls?
Unless you live rent with included utilities, then the simple system for commodity utilities is: fixed cost and then a rate per unit, often with a fixed amount that is "free" (as in you only get charged per unit over it - clearly you paid for it in the fixed cost).
Which is exactly how ISPs worked when I wasn't in the US - You paid $X/month for Y GB and then paid Z cents per MB over that. At any reasonable ISP they also offered $X/month for Y GB and then the connection is throttled to something a bit better than dial up for those who don't want a huge bill because the kid decided to download the internet.
Just a cap is stupid, a cap at which you start paying makes sense if bandwidth is limited.
If bandwidth is larger than demand then just like fixed line phones you'll get unlimited plans popping up...
Not the root servers.
The .com, .net, whatever they had level ones - one below the root, still ones you have to use if you want DNS to work...
Because wind power, tidal power, geothermal power, coal power, and nuclear power are all perpetual motion devices.
Dimwit.
It's not just cherry picking - which wouldn't matter so much in itself. Drugs are very hit and miss you expect lots of things to just not work.
The problem is they study drugs X, Y, and Z in combination and find that not only does it not help it makes the patients worse. They don't bother publishing since they didn't get anything useful out of it and no one is going to cite them...
A year later another group decides to study X, Y, and Z in combination. So a pointless study that harms patients is done because this second group never found out about the previous study in their literature search.
It's clearly revenue positive. Those coupons made it easier to make the transition. They are getting orders of magnitude more revenue from selling the freed up spectrum than they spend on coupons...
It can't be sued for being racist...
Since those admins are doing the selling. And inflation means people won't be able to afford as many things with thee gold they get from in-game play and hence will have to buy stuff from them. Adding to inflation some more, and hence making buying stuff even more likely...
I suspect they understand it just fine.
Of course they could manage it the other way and have fixed price sellers for all items that way inflation doesn't happen - instead newbies get given whatever the best gear is the moment they join by other players with so much gold they can't use it all...
Rather than a line-item veto - which opens up huge gaming the system options, by vetoing part of something which significantly changes the effect of the rest - would be not having damn riders in the first place.
Of course then the garbage legislation the lobbyists pay for wouldn't be passable, and hence the checks would stop coming. So that isn't happening...
No, but it probably helps in getting a warrant to check for evidence in things they wouldn't be allowed to look at without a warrant...
There's a retard involved here, but it isn't Moore.
Which is exactly what he said "I am not going to be at the helm of a company that ends up like the music business that refused to stop trying to sell you CDs for £15 because it was a hugely profitable model" - he's using the music business refusing to stop trying to sell you CDs as the bad example, ipso facto his notion is they should have stopped.
Again you are agreeing with what he said. "Steve Jobs comes to the rescue to figure out a way to charge you 99 cents", in other word's the music industry was too dumb to do it but Apple did and he thinks that's a good thing (the word "rescue" is a hint there)...
He gave itune singles as an example of a good thing, and the music industry wanting to keep everything on CDs as a bad thing - so clearly he thinks no such thing.
79p is almost US$1.50. He considers the UK itunes buyers as being ripped off because they are paying 50% more than US buyers.
Seriously every single thing you read in that paragraph you managed to interpret in the opposite way than it clearly means. English has never seen such a great success at failure.