What energy must an antiproton have to get past the repulsion caused by the electrons of the target atom(s)? I imagine it would eventually annihilate with someone on its way through normal matter, but how far would it get?
I think my Spotlight must be broken... It used to work just fine but I typed in "Dracula" before I started this comment: two minutes later I gave up on moaning and decided to moan on slashdot. I store all my rips in either/Volumes/External/Movies or/Volumes/External/TV and "Dracula, Dead and Loving it" is in the former. Oddly, Spotlight doesn't find what I want when I search for "Dracula", but has no problems with "dead".
Frankly, I used to use spotlight all of the time but since realising it was often quicker just to find stuff myself I practically gave up. The problem wasn't a lack of speed per se, more that it randomly refuses to find some search terms.
It has totally lost the anarchistic feel it had and has become a group consisting of a handful of 'smart' guys giving out orders to the masses of zombie idiots who give up their connection voluntarily.
*Emphasis mine*
So the kiddies are doing this all voluntarily and they're free to stop whenever they want. Isn't that a workable definition of anarchy?
Anonymity does not imply a flat hierarchy. It simply means that screen names cannot (in theory) be tied to real ones. For example, Spartacus may be notionally equal to everyone else in Anonymous, but if he/she is well-respected in the group you might well find other members happy to follow his/her lead in coordinated actions.
Similarly, anarchy does not automatically imply disorder, only a lack of rulers. There's nothing to stop people self-organising into whatever organisational structure they desire.
I can understand people wanting to avoid the sound of spiders scratching behind earbuds, or bright flashing colours in the corner of one's eye but why ban silent, monochromatic book replacements? This sort of café sounds to me like a gathering place of pompous poseurs (possibly goateed) sat there with tattered - by their previous owners - copies of Milne spouting neo-luddite claptrap.
Here endeth the rant. If these places want to alienate paying customers then that's their right; it's just a shame there probably won't be another article on their inevitable going out of business. Of course, collecting all this sort just makes it that much easier to avoid them, so I'm at best ambivalent about the whole thing.
P.S. I figure if the only source is a paywalled opinion piece then it shouldn't count as news...
Actually, the wording is that one has to "receive broadcasts as they are transmitted". If you want to argue that iPlayer programmes are TV signals then this distinction is important. I watch perhaps 2 hours of TV programming per week using iPlayer and sometimes 4OD so I don't pay a license fee. If I want to watch something else I'll just go to a streaming site or my DVD collection.
FWIW I believe Channel 4 does receive some small amount of the fee.
So, what you're saying is that to reprint a book costs wildly less than to produce a book?
Websites aren't books.
That an electronic copy with no attempts to guarantee availability is much cheaper than a resilient set of servers which deliver instantly and accessibly to goodness-knows-how-many-people per minute?
Yes, electronic copies don't cost Auntie anything, which is sort of the point.
And that the cheapest thing of all is to do so without asking anyone's permission?
If he's british then the matter of permission is a grey one: having paid his license fee it could be argued that he has a right to this material and making it available to other Britons is merely an extension. Of course, sticking it on BT for all to grab would complicate matters but I don't see Auntie getting her knickers in too much of a twist.
Look, we can all observe an assault undique to neuter and privatise the BBC. But OP is attention whoring with a cheap technical demonstration which alienates him from the very people he might think he is supporting.
If there is an assault on the BBC it's coming from the government and not even the shower we have now would privatise the Beeb (hell, not even Thatcher tried that). OP may be attention-seeking - he's a Twitterer, go figure - and what he did may have been simple but it's hardly alienating. It never hurts to have another alternative archive of lost material, especially when one has been stung in the past by all those lost tapes of Dr. Who.
I agree with your points on performance-based pay and "throwing" money at teachers* but not your comparison with sewer cleaners. Sewers are not children and teachers have to endure shit of an entirely different kind.
Wouldn't it be funny, though? Imagine if Google did this with others too: "Sorry, but we're not going to include results from people who are currently suing us. Don't shit where you eat!"
Oxymoron? I think not. The brain is a fascinating computer with immense capability for calculation and it is also very flexible.
Until we advance the state of computer aided universe simulation to the point where we don't need to run thought experiments and can just run a model universe for a couple of days to see if our theories are correct, we'll be stuck experimenting in our brains.
Thought experiment is an oxymoron, unless you can somehow gather data using clairvoyance. Otherwise, everything you imagine as more akin to discovering some new facet of mathematics rather than making an observation of the natural world.
And yes, the human brain is indeed a very powerful instrument capable of reasoning, imagination and intuition but so what? Even if it were a thousand times more capable it wouldn't change the above.
Finally, you suggest a false dichotomy between a simulation using the wet stuff between your ears and one encompassing the entire universe done in silico. Perhaps I misunderstood, are you saying a human is capable the same feat using just grey matter?
I'll leave you with a question (well, two questions):
Which of the following is an experiment: dropping a hammer and timing its fall or imagining a dropped hammer and how long it takes to fall?
Why did Einstein use thought experiments in preference to computer simulation? (Hint: It's not because he was a luddite.)
Setting aside the problems of maintaining the aesthetics while keeping it waterproof, I'll concentrate on one essential aspect of the iphone: ever notice how the touchscreen doesn't work when the screen gets wet?
Yeah, really. You'd think that "Bauer" would be derived from "bauen" (build), and it might well be, but it's an illustration of the fact that German is no more logical than any other human-developed language. There are a number of German-English dictionaries online; go look it up.
No more logical, perhaps, but there's something about the word Handschuh in particular that I find beautifully elegant.
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it's good entertainment and small things amuse small minds.
Not so amusing as those who do not appreciate the (usually omitted) last part of that saying:
Simple things please simple minds, while greater fools look on.
Oops, that should say something .
What energy must an antiproton have to get past the repulsion caused by the electrons of the target atom(s)? I imagine it would eventually annihilate with someone on its way through normal matter, but how far would it get?
A bit of whoosing going on here, eh commodore?
Why? we're harmless.
Well, mostly. See *Genocide.
What's a tangible table? Neither TFA nor TFS say. Also, what makes a tangible table more so than the wooden one in my living room?
I think my Spotlight must be broken... It used to work just fine but I typed in "Dracula" before I started this comment: two minutes later I gave up on moaning and decided to moan on slashdot. I store all my rips in either /Volumes/External/Movies or /Volumes/External/TV and "Dracula, Dead and Loving it" is in the former. Oddly, Spotlight doesn't find what I want when I search for "Dracula", but has no problems with "dead".
Frankly, I used to use spotlight all of the time but since realising it was often quicker just to find stuff myself I practically gave up. The problem wasn't a lack of speed per se, more that it randomly refuses to find some search terms.
It has totally lost the anarchistic feel it had and has become a group consisting of a handful of 'smart' guys giving out orders to the masses of zombie idiots who give up their connection voluntarily.
*Emphasis mine*
So the kiddies are doing this all voluntarily and they're free to stop whenever they want. Isn't that a workable definition of anarchy?
Anonymity does not imply a flat hierarchy. It simply means that screen names cannot (in theory) be tied to real ones. For example, Spartacus may be notionally equal to everyone else in Anonymous, but if he/she is well-respected in the group you might well find other members happy to follow his/her lead in coordinated actions.
Similarly, anarchy does not automatically imply disorder, only a lack of rulers. There's nothing to stop people self-organising into whatever organisational structure they desire.
Say no to XKCD!
I figure so long as Lrrr is further away than Altair, we're safe... for now.
I can understand people wanting to avoid the sound of spiders scratching behind earbuds, or bright flashing colours in the corner of one's eye but why ban silent, monochromatic book replacements? This sort of café sounds to me like a gathering place of pompous poseurs (possibly goateed) sat there with tattered - by their previous owners - copies of Milne spouting neo-luddite claptrap.
Here endeth the rant. If these places want to alienate paying customers then that's their right; it's just a shame there probably won't be another article on their inevitable going out of business. Of course, collecting all this sort just makes it that much easier to avoid them, so I'm at best ambivalent about the whole thing.
P.S. I figure if the only source is a paywalled opinion piece then it shouldn't count as news...
Actually, the wording is that one has to "receive broadcasts as they are transmitted". If you want to argue that iPlayer programmes are TV signals then this distinction is important. I watch perhaps 2 hours of TV programming per week using iPlayer and sometimes 4OD so I don't pay a license fee. If I want to watch something else I'll just go to a streaming site or my DVD collection.
FWIW I believe Channel 4 does receive some small amount of the fee.
So, what you're saying is that to reprint a book costs wildly less than to produce a book?
Websites aren't books.
That an electronic copy with no attempts to guarantee availability is much cheaper than a resilient set of servers which deliver instantly and accessibly to goodness-knows-how-many-people per minute?
Yes, electronic copies don't cost Auntie anything, which is sort of the point.
And that the cheapest thing of all is to do so without asking anyone's permission?
If he's british then the matter of permission is a grey one: having paid his license fee it could be argued that he has a right to this material and making it available to other Britons is merely an extension. Of course, sticking it on BT for all to grab would complicate matters but I don't see Auntie getting her knickers in too much of a twist.
Look, we can all observe an assault undique to neuter and privatise the BBC. But OP is attention whoring with a cheap technical demonstration which alienates him from the very people he might think he is supporting.
If there is an assault on the BBC it's coming from the government and not even the shower we have now would privatise the Beeb (hell, not even Thatcher tried that). OP may be attention-seeking - he's a Twitterer, go figure - and what he did may have been simple but it's hardly alienating. It never hurts to have another alternative archive of lost material, especially when one has been stung in the past by all those lost tapes of Dr. Who.
I agree with your points on performance-based pay and "throwing" money at teachers* but not your comparison with sewer cleaners. Sewers are not children and teachers have to endure shit of an entirely different kind.
*A bit of a cart and horse situation there.
Doesn't the Tolkein estate take exception to this? If not, please excuse me while I head down to Companies House to found General Products...
That would be a bit of a dick move and, prima facie, libel no?
Wouldn't it be funny, though? Imagine if Google did this with others too: "Sorry, but we're not going to include results from people who are currently suing us. Don't shit where you eat!"
That is all.
Even a BMW has at least one part that doesn't work: the indicator stalk, usually, but the driver would do in a pinch.
Mathematicians don't experiment; they calculate.
Oxymoron? I think not. The brain is a fascinating computer with immense capability for calculation and it is also very flexible. Until we advance the state of computer aided universe simulation to the point where we don't need to run thought experiments and can just run a model universe for a couple of days to see if our theories are correct, we'll be stuck experimenting in our brains.
Thought experiment is an oxymoron, unless you can somehow gather data using clairvoyance. Otherwise, everything you imagine as more akin to discovering some new facet of mathematics rather than making an observation of the natural world.
And yes, the human brain is indeed a very powerful instrument capable of reasoning, imagination and intuition but so what? Even if it were a thousand times more capable it wouldn't change the above.
Finally, you suggest a false dichotomy between a simulation using the wet stuff between your ears and one encompassing the entire universe done in silico. Perhaps I misunderstood, are you saying a human is capable the same feat using just grey matter?
I'll leave you with a question (well, two questions):
Which of the following is an experiment: dropping a hammer and timing its fall or imagining a dropped hammer and how long it takes to fall?
Why did Einstein use thought experiments in preference to computer simulation? (Hint: It's not because he was a luddite.)
Setting aside the problems of maintaining the aesthetics while keeping it waterproof, I'll concentrate on one essential aspect of the iphone: ever notice how the touchscreen doesn't work when the screen gets wet?
To error is human. To really foul things up, you need a computer.
Which one are you?
Yeah, really. You'd think that "Bauer" would be derived from "bauen" (build), and it might well be, but it's an illustration of the fact that German is no more logical than any other human-developed language. There are a number of German-English dictionaries online; go look it up.
No more logical, perhaps, but there's something about the word Handschuh in particular that I find beautifully elegant.
I'm way ahead of you there, friend!
You go have a virtual one on me.