I see what you're saying, dude, but I was actually semi-serious. *I* was the guy spewing those speculations at those cocktail parties. General Relativity actually CAN explain apparent Expansion of the Universe(tm). It's Intuitively Obvious To The Most Casual Observer! (IOTTMCO)
The following hypothesis has been thoroughly vetted at many cocktail parties, so its' credibility and clarity of concept is unassailable: Here's the deal. There _was no big bang_. The universe is _not_ expanding. "Huh? I hear you say. "But, but what about red shift? The hubble constant?" Simple. Two words: General Relativity. If the universe stretches out infinitely in all directions, is of a density similar to here everywhere, and somehow replenishes matter lost to black holes and..stuff.. by a mechanism that we don't understand yet, then the aggregate mass (infinite with a big I) at tremendous distances from us would be sufficient to bend space time in such a way so as to make it *appear* that everything is else is moving away from us. No matter where you went, when looking out to the 'edge' you'd see red shift all the way down to infinitely long wavelengths. The universe, in effect would appear to have an 'event horizon'.. a 'Black Sphere', if you will, beyond which nothing would be visible. Oh, this idea would explain all that pesky 'background radiation" too. Of course, measuring distances gets to be a real bear, but that's outweighed by being able to learn cool stuff about time-space geometries by playing around with the red-shift data viewed in a new analytical framework. So there you have it. When do I get my grant:)
I'm no biologist, but wouldn't the likelihood that carbon (the swiss army atom) be at the center of any expression of life, anywhere, constrain those expressions within a set of parameters fairly similar to our own? IE: the 'metabolism of light' would most likely need iron, hence, chlorophyll?
It's a smug, self-satisfied and feeble attempt at 'Satire(tm)' that is an utter failure on all fronts. ALL of it has been done before, better. I cannot *believe* that I *ever* found the Onion even remotely amusing. (washing his hands feverishly, YET AGAIN!)
Member DIVX (the lame DVD format)? Well, this sucks even harder than that did, and will disappear even faster. Short of out-and-out trust building behaviour that even the Bush administration could not ignore, this strategy is going NOWHERE! Market traction is essential for a strategy like this to work. Faaaar too many folks are aware of what happened with DVD's (early adopters, especially) and they won't be burned again. This one is still-born , folks.
Great point. The passage of these many IP protection acts amount to an 'unfunded mandate' or media subsidy paid for by the mass of the American people.
Let the tech producers that enable such products as Toy Story, or whatever else CGI driven film, or even, say, a CD that exploits a sonic effect, or a book that utilises a typesetting tool charge these media bozos a per-frame, or per-second, or per-page royalty.. enforceable via the very hardware protections that they are clamoring for. Even better.. how about a CGI actor's union that charges a per-actor fee for all of the 'extras' in the background of scenes in films like The Mummy, or Star wars?
If we choose to strike back along these lines, the Eisners of the world will be begging for mercy by the time we're done with them. Just go crazy with licensing terms, and let 'em bend over.
Holy cow, people.. If this one isn't a hotbutton issue, I surely don't know what is! I didn't *think* that I signed onto a low traffic/. channel, but now I'm starting to wonder... The (so-called) 'patriot' act is a burning bag of shit on the front porch of the framers of our Constitution! When the Supremes get their mitts on this POS legislation, they'll tear it apart! It'll be Hideous! I'm at a loss here.
Very cool, and astoundingly understandable, considering that the authors aren't native english speakers. It's so neat how they've adapted what, after all, are some fairly pedestrian and accessible tech to achieve such a noble goal! I especially enjoyed the brute-force electrochemical solution to producing a tip. Massively k3w1!
The fact that hackers recognised the value of, and got after what they saw as a 'blank slate' and are even now creating fabulous apps for it should be very encouraging to the/. community. The Ipod story is one of computing darwinism at its' best!
Ahh.. Turbos, yes. I was talking normally aspirated. Resonances are very important to carbureted (injected, as well) engines, and big pipes tend to smooth out the pulses that help with power peaks.
what's your source? My faith and my intuition, asshole. A non existent neural system, inherently insufficient to support a set of 'soul' processes, isn't a Being. It hasn't been issued a certificate of 'Beingness' yet by the Big Guy in the Sky. You, personally, could clone a cell from anywhere on your body, and if it grew to majority, (much less, actually) I would regard it as a full-blown Human, worthy of all the respect you or I would demand. That organism would possess 'the program'; the initial program load From God that makes us that which we are. A blastocyst is a 'potential' Potential human.. a far cry from becoming one.
Large _tail_ pipes are cool, as they don't dull street performance, but large _exhaust_ diameters are bad news. They only function well at high RPM's and narrow power bandwidths. Gearing gets to be a major factor, and a PITA, if you're doing street.
I feel compelled to point out that the term 'embryonic' when it refers to stem cells is a huge misnomer. The cells in question are obtained (IIRC) from a blastocyst, or a pre-zygote state of the fertilised cell. This is about as far, developmentally, from an embryo (with differentiated tissues) as a zygote is from the final Star Child in 2001. A blastocyst is just a clump of cells. A pile of lumber at a building site. Not a house yet. Nobody's even close to having moved in, spirit-wise. You're not 'destroying a life' at that point. There's no sentient life there! Fetuses.. well, that's a different story..
Since when did the Slashdot readership turn into homeopathic "holistic" healers who appear to be seriously suggesting that meditation can cure an eye problem? d00d.. learn to READ.. I never suggested a cure. Just that it helps. Empirical experience.
Meditation as a lifestyle has as a major side benefit; the 'grounding' of the organism that one inhabits. It (our Meat representation to the world) then calms down, and functions with optimal performance. I've also had vision difficulties recently that can totally be traced to stress. Stress can boost one's intraocular pressure (aggravating our friend's problem) as well as confusing the image processing areas of the brain. Try being Here and Now and see if that helps. (Zen skill acquisition is left as an exercise for the reader) I'm betting that it will. Worked for me!
Lessee.. We have a POLAR CONTINENT... With huge thermal differentials across its' surface due to it being on a spherical planet and.. stuff. Why is this surprising? It's a natural outward flow of material from the Pole (where it accretes) to the edge (where all that H2O gets recycled). Sometimes bergs are big. Sometimes small. Always constant, though. Sheesh! Stuff happens!
OOPS! I forgot to mention that Iridium has/had ACTUAL VALUE! And still does. So it survives. XM or whatever it's called will be dead in two years, and I'm being reeeaaalllyy optimistic about its' lifespan. People want their local content back (ClearChannel or whatever they call themselves are taking a major dump) and are ignoring the big players by legions.
This crap is gonna go down in flames even faster than Iridium did. Subscription, NON-LOCAL alleged radio, devoid of all of the values that make radio work in the first place? Bleahh! Ever turn on AM in the am (giggle) looking for something that's NOT ART BELL? Local color?
That's what satradio is gonne be like in no time. Kiss of death. Nobody's gonna pay for the kind of homogenised drivel satradio will become within (mark my words) two years.
Can't wait to see the pretty lights when they deorbit those puppies luminescently.
Geez. I tend to do the same thing. Have for years. I like big, floppy tees with pockets. They don't restrict, and leave my neck alone. This reassures me that I am Safe(tm). Maybe the familiar textures and aroma(s) allow one to maintain a connection to a known and stable frame of mind.. Eccentrics have long been known to carry some comfortable element of their environs around with them for this very reason. Einstein would be a good example of the aforementioned fussiness.
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I see what you're saying, dude, but I was actually semi-serious.
*I* was the guy spewing those speculations at those cocktail parties.
General Relativity actually CAN explain apparent Expansion of the Universe(tm).
It's Intuitively Obvious To The Most Casual Observer! (IOTTMCO)
The following hypothesis has been thoroughly vetted at many cocktail parties, so its' credibility and clarity of concept is unassailable: ..stuff.. by a mechanism that we don't understand yet, then the aggregate mass (infinite with a big I) at tremendous distances from us would be sufficient to bend space time in such a way so as to make it *appear* that everything is else is moving away from us. No matter where you went, when looking out to the 'edge' you'd see red shift all the way down to infinitely long wavelengths. :)
Here's the deal.
There _was no big bang_. The universe is _not_ expanding.
"Huh? I hear you say. "But, but what about red shift? The hubble constant?"
Simple. Two words: General Relativity.
If the universe stretches out infinitely in all directions, is of a density similar to here everywhere, and somehow replenishes matter lost to black holes and
The universe, in effect would appear to have an 'event horizon'.. a 'Black Sphere', if you will, beyond which nothing would be visible.
Oh, this idea would explain all that pesky 'background radiation" too.
Of course, measuring distances gets to be a real bear, but that's outweighed by being able to learn cool stuff about time-space geometries by playing around with the red-shift data viewed in a new analytical framework.
So there you have it.
When do I get my grant
I'm no biologist, but wouldn't the likelihood that carbon (the swiss army atom) be at the center of any expression of life, anywhere, constrain those expressions within a set of parameters fairly similar to our own?
IE: the 'metabolism of light' would most likely need iron, hence, chlorophyll?
It's a smug, self-satisfied and feeble attempt at 'Satire(tm)' that is an utter failure on all fronts. ALL of it has been done before, better.
I cannot *believe* that I *ever* found the Onion even remotely amusing.
(washing his hands feverishly, YET AGAIN!)
Perhaps you might invite them all down to the mall teraplex to see 'Frailty'?
I'm sure she'd enjoy that!
Bill Paxton is SUCH a hunk >:->
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There's a link to Stile's Top 50 sites on that page!
http://cgi.stileproject.com/top50/rankem.c
Hm....
Member DIVX (the lame DVD format)?
Well, this sucks even harder than that did, and will disappear even faster.
Short of out-and-out trust building behaviour that even the Bush administration could not ignore, this strategy is going NOWHERE!
Market traction is essential for a strategy like this to work. Faaaar too many folks are aware of what happened with DVD's (early adopters, especially) and they won't be burned again.
This one is still-born , folks.
Great point.
The passage of these many IP protection acts amount to an 'unfunded mandate' or media subsidy paid for by the mass of the American people.
Screw 'em all. I can do without.
Let the tech producers that enable such products as Toy Story, or whatever else CGI driven film, or even, say, a CD that exploits a sonic effect, or a book that utilises a typesetting tool charge these media bozos a per-frame, or per-second, or per-page royalty.. enforceable via the very hardware protections that they are clamoring for.
Even better.. how about a CGI actor's union that charges a per-actor fee for all of the 'extras' in the background of scenes in films like The Mummy, or Star wars?
If we choose to strike back along these lines, the Eisners of the world will be begging for mercy by the time we're done with them. Just go crazy with licensing terms, and let 'em bend over.
Fire with fire, I say.
Holy cow, people.. If this one isn't a hotbutton issue, I surely don't know what is! /. channel, but now I'm starting to wonder...
I didn't *think* that I signed onto a low traffic
The (so-called) 'patriot' act is a burning bag of shit on the front porch of the framers of our Constitution!
When the Supremes get their mitts on this POS legislation, they'll tear it apart! It'll be Hideous!
I'm at a loss here.
Very cool, and astoundingly understandable, considering that the authors aren't native english speakers.
It's so neat how they've adapted what, after all, are some fairly pedestrian and accessible tech to achieve such a noble goal!
I especially enjoyed the brute-force electrochemical solution to producing a tip.
Massively k3w1!
You're right on, d00d. This HAS to be a joke.
Any bets on if it'll turn up as a story on The Daily Show(tm)?
The fact that hackers recognised the value of, and got after what they saw as a 'blank slate' and are even now creating fabulous apps for it should be very encouraging to the /. community.
The Ipod story is one of computing darwinism at its' best!
Ahh.. Turbos, yes.
I was talking normally aspirated.
Resonances are very important to carbureted (injected, as well) engines, and big pipes tend to smooth out the pulses that help with power peaks.
what's your source?
My faith and my intuition, asshole.
A non existent neural system, inherently insufficient to support a set of 'soul' processes, isn't a Being. It hasn't been issued a certificate of 'Beingness' yet by the Big Guy in the Sky.
You, personally, could clone a cell from anywhere on your body, and if it grew to majority, (much less, actually) I would regard it as a full-blown Human, worthy of all the respect you or I would demand.
That organism would possess 'the program'; the initial program load From God that makes us that which we are.
A blastocyst is a 'potential' Potential human.. a far cry from becoming one.
Large _tail_ pipes are cool, as they don't dull street performance, but large _exhaust_ diameters are bad news. They only function well at high RPM's and narrow power bandwidths. Gearing gets to be a major factor, and a PITA, if you're doing street.
I got the two states interposed..
A Zygote (fertilised ovum, basically) *precedes* a blastocyst, which, in turn, precedes an embryo.
Sorry 8P
I feel compelled to point out that the term 'embryonic' when it refers to stem cells is a huge misnomer.
The cells in question are obtained (IIRC) from a blastocyst, or a pre-zygote state of the fertilised cell. This is about as far, developmentally, from an embryo (with differentiated tissues) as a zygote is from the final Star Child in 2001.
A blastocyst is just a clump of cells. A pile of lumber at a building site. Not a house yet. Nobody's even close to having moved in, spirit-wise.
You're not 'destroying a life' at that point. There's no sentient life there!
Fetuses.. well, that's a different story..
Since when did the Slashdot readership turn into homeopathic "holistic" healers who appear to be seriously suggesting that meditation can cure an eye problem?
d00d.. learn to READ..
I never suggested a cure. Just that it helps. Empirical experience.
Meditation as a lifestyle has as a major side benefit; the 'grounding' of the organism that one inhabits. It (our Meat representation to the world) then calms down, and functions with optimal performance.
I've also had vision difficulties recently that can totally be traced to stress.
Stress can boost one's intraocular pressure (aggravating our friend's problem) as well as confusing the image processing areas of the brain.
Try being Here and Now and see if that helps.
(Zen skill acquisition is left as an exercise for the reader)
I'm betting that it will. Worked for me!
Lessee..
We have a POLAR CONTINENT...
With huge thermal differentials across its' surface due to it being on a spherical planet and.. stuff.
Why is this surprising? It's a natural outward flow of material from the Pole (where it accretes) to the edge (where all that H2O gets recycled).
Sometimes bergs are big. Sometimes small.
Always constant, though.
Sheesh!
Stuff happens!
OOPS!
I forgot to mention that Iridium has/had ACTUAL VALUE!
And still does.
So it survives.
XM or whatever it's called will be dead in two years, and I'm being reeeaaalllyy optimistic about its' lifespan.
People want their local content back (ClearChannel or whatever they call themselves are taking a major dump)
and are ignoring the big players by legions.
This crap is gonna go down in flames even faster than Iridium did.
Subscription, NON-LOCAL alleged radio, devoid of all of the values that make radio work in the first place? Bleahh!
Ever turn on AM in the am (giggle) looking for something that's NOT ART BELL? Local color?
That's what satradio is gonne be like in no time. Kiss of death. Nobody's gonna pay for the kind of homogenised drivel satradio will become within (mark my words) two years.
Can't wait to see the pretty lights when they deorbit those puppies luminescently.
THAT, I'd pay money for
>8->
Geez. I tend to do the same thing. Have for years.
I like big, floppy tees with pockets. They don't restrict, and leave my neck alone. This reassures me that I am Safe(tm).
Maybe the familiar textures and aroma(s) allow one to maintain a connection to a known and stable frame of mind.. Eccentrics have long been known to carry some comfortable element of their environs around with them for this very reason.
Einstein would be a good example of the aforementioned fussiness.
Heh, indeed.
Squint just a bit, and he looks a tad more like Ron Jeremy!