I don't mind if Apples censors everything to death, because that's exactly what I would expect from Apple. Maybe one day the legions of braindead fanboys will finally get tired of having their toes stepped upon, and Apple will finally go the way of Betamax and HD-DVD. DARPA may have made the Internet, but porn made it prolific.
lol, no actually, I'm not sure. I'm just going off what I read in TFA and my limited understanding of particle physics. However, I'm willing to bet that protons aren't actually shrinking when orbitted by muons, but rather our current understanding of muon electrodynamics is less than complete.
You should be able to unlock your phone and still fulfill your contract. So long as I keep my service for however long I'm supposed to, I should be able to root and update my phone. Penalize people for breaking contract (civil obviously, not criminal), but let us do whatever with hardware we bought and paid for, even if you sold it to us at a discount. So long as we uphold our end of the bargain, the rest should be moot.
is it more likely that placing a muon in orbit causes the nucleus to shrink, or that we're flawed in our assumption that muons will orbit at the same distance as electrons?
You are exactly the opposite of right. They don't actually measure the proton, they measure an orbital and do some math to determine the size of a proton. They would expect a muon to orbit at the same distance since it has the same charge as an electron, but they're getting a smaller sized orbital and therefore determining that the proton has shrunk. In reality, protons are the same size, and we're stumped as to why muons are behaving differently than electrons. If anything, muonic hydrogen has less empty space than regular hydrogen. Nothing expanded. The overall size of the atom shrunk even though the components stayed the same size.
Wait. I thought the whole point of this experiment was that they extrapolate the size of the proton by actually measuring the size of the orbital. So it's not necessarily that the proton has gotten smaller, just that muons orbit closer than electrons. If anything, they've taken some of the empty space out of the atom.
we'll have hyperomniphopic, then turbo-omniphopic, then überomniphopic, etc. and all the while we'll still see few, if any, real world applications. These nanoscale surfaces are just too fragile. They'd probably work well for disposable products (although that raises the issue of how well garbage breaks down when it can't even get wet). For some of the most useful applications, the coating would have to be re-applied regularly. That raises the issue of safety of such products. I can only imagine what kind of havoc this stuff would wreak if you were do breath an aerosolized version. Plain liquid versions would be manageable, but even then you'd probably have to wear impervious gloves to make sure it doesn't just soak right in to your bloodstream and head straight for your dura mater. It's fascinating to think of all the possible applications, yet scary as shit to think of all the side effects.
People always argue about this being an outdated idea. What chance does an armed populace have against a trained and better armed military? I'd like to start by saying that I don't concede this point, but let's go with it for the sake of argument. Let's say that we as a people are being repressed. Our freedoms are being taken away and there's nothing we can do to stop it. Anyone who rises up or resists faces certain death under the heel of a tyrannical government and their military might. Let's for a second pretend that all those conditions are true. My answer is still, "So fucking what?" What happened to "live free or die"? Do you not remember the song lyrics reminding you not to "exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage"? Put me in that situation without a gun, and I'm still gonna fight back. Be it with an assault rifle or a nail-studded 2x4, I'll still stand up for what I think is right. If good men are willing to risk their lives to preserve our freedom, the least we can do is let them keep their guns.
Interesting rather than funny? Why are so many slashdotters unable to recognize humor? I think the next poll should be a simple one. Are you Autistic?: Yes/No. I think that would confirm my suspicions.
Seems every-damn-body's getting the flu this year. Everyone at work's been sick, and it seems to be the only thing people can talk about on my twitter feed. From reading the news, it seems to be a very "aggressive" strain going around this year. I've been in fairly close proximity to several of the stricken, and I've yet to even get the sniffles. Thinking back, I think I know why I seem to have developed the necessary antibodies: A few years ago, I was sitting outside my apartment on the sidewalk as I often like to do when it's drizzly out. Up walked this skinny, white stray cat. It didn't seem to mind the inclement weather and wasn't scared of me as are most of the strays. It sat down right beside me and rubbed it's head against my elbow. As I sat there and petted the filthy little malnourished cat, it coughed. I've never heard a cat cough like that. Not like hacking up a hairball, but like a full grown man with pneumonia or a daily smoker in their 50s. It kinda scared the crap out of me. I felt sorry for the little guy, but there wasn't much I could do. I went inside and promptly washed my hands and thought little more of it until the next morning when I had the aches, chills, and started running a mild fever. That was by far the worst case of the flu I had ever gotten. Despite feeling like death for about 3 days, I didn't go to the doctor. I kinda wish I had, because I'm fairly certain this had to be some crazy, previously unknown strain and it would've been cool to be patient zero. I stayed home a few days sleeping for inordinate amounts of time and popping vitamin C horse pills like they were candy until I recovered. I managed to not spread it to the population at large, which is good because I'm pretty sure it would've wiped out all the elderly and immunocompromised in the area. Since then, I've been fairly impervious to the flu. I mean, I haven't been tempting fate; licking the homeless or anything, but flu seasons have come and gone with no ill effect. I've shared confined spaces with the sick, even using the phone after them and such. When the swine flu panic swept through my part of the country, I all but tried to catch it with no luck. It seems as though I was exposed to some prehistoric alpha-influenza that left me with antibodies for every strain of the flu imaginable. Maybe that kitty had been playing down by the mammoth pit. Who knows? X-files shit.
Sometimes I like to watch my old, grainy movies; you know, the.AVIs you used to download and cram 4 or 5 on a data DVD. I have a really nice hi-def, high refresh rate Samsung, and while it makes HD programming look almost hyper-realistic, it makes my old movies look like hammered ass. I've found that if I just take off my glasses, I don't even notice the pixelation and artifacts. Problem solved.
I was raised as one of those old-soul, hippie, organic gardeners. In a perfect world, we'd all grow our own food in our own backyard and we'd probably all be healthier for it. Personally, I'm not a fan of most supermarket produce. If you've never eaten an heirloom tomato grown in your own soil, then you won't understand. Most supermarket produce is bland and devoid of nutrients in comparison to what you pick from your own backyard. However, I realize home gardening isn't terribly plausible for most people. As the human race spreads and populates more of the planet, we have more demand for food and less land to grow it on (it seems a reduction in population would be a better fix, but I'll argue that some other day). I can understand the want to genetically enhance crops. The concern is the motivation. Monsanto isn't fiddling with genetics because they're good folks and want to feed the starving masses; they want to turn a profit. As such, they're GMO is less about hearty, well adjusted plants, and more about terminator seeds and selling more pesticide. They couldn't care less about the health of the people eating their crops, so long as links to health problems aren't tangible enough to make a court case. The truth is, it'll be decades before we know for sure GMOs aren't slowly killing us. I realize most of the research says GMO is safe, and if that GMO was all about doing some good in the world, I'd be lots more likely to take those claims at face value. It might be worth taking a risk if the cause is noble. However, I'd rather not gamble with the health of the entire population for the sake of lining Monsanto's coffers. I, personally, don't want to eat their creations and I don't want to support those evil bastards. That leads to another major point: choice. In a few years, we may not have one. Pollen doesn't stop at fence lines or read signs. When you introduce this type of organism, it spreads. Once it's established, there's no good way to fight it. Once it's in the silo or your cereal box, there's no good way to discern mutant from natural. Just because I don't want to eat their demons seeds, doesn't mean I'll have a choice in the matter.
Who said evolution had to be natural? Did one breed of dog not evolve into several others through selective breeding? Evolution is a result; natural selection, selective breeding, etc are a means to that end. I have to agree (at least I'm assuming we agree) that this doesn't necessarily prove much. When working with a limited gene pool and a short amount of time, you won't necessarily mimic the results of eons of natural selection. Maybe their big brained guppies had a dominant gene for small guts and low libido, but that doesn't mean the guppy population as whole shares these traits. Also, with enough time, you could have all sorts of genetic variations that could potentially result in fat, horny, big-brained guppies. I'm not saying their research is patently flawed, just that it may or may not reflect trends in the real world. It's kinda impossible to know for sure without a spare universe and infinite amounts of time.
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I don't get why people are so into sex and music either. What's the deal with endorphins? Amiright?
In CS:S the names were changed in the buy menus, but had real-world names in console.
We're not "other Americans", we're "domestic insurgents" or some other phrase of the week.
I don't mind if Apples censors everything to death, because that's exactly what I would expect from Apple. Maybe one day the legions of braindead fanboys will finally get tired of having their toes stepped upon, and Apple will finally go the way of Betamax and HD-DVD. DARPA may have made the Internet, but porn made it prolific.
lol, no actually, I'm not sure. I'm just going off what I read in TFA and my limited understanding of particle physics. However, I'm willing to bet that protons aren't actually shrinking when orbitted by muons, but rather our current understanding of muon electrodynamics is less than complete.
You should be able to unlock your phone and still fulfill your contract. So long as I keep my service for however long I'm supposed to, I should be able to root and update my phone. Penalize people for breaking contract (civil obviously, not criminal), but let us do whatever with hardware we bought and paid for, even if you sold it to us at a discount. So long as we uphold our end of the bargain, the rest should be moot.
is it more likely that placing a muon in orbit causes the nucleus to shrink, or that we're flawed in our assumption that muons will orbit at the same distance as electrons?
You are exactly the opposite of right. They don't actually measure the proton, they measure an orbital and do some math to determine the size of a proton. They would expect a muon to orbit at the same distance since it has the same charge as an electron, but they're getting a smaller sized orbital and therefore determining that the proton has shrunk. In reality, protons are the same size, and we're stumped as to why muons are behaving differently than electrons. If anything, muonic hydrogen has less empty space than regular hydrogen. Nothing expanded. The overall size of the atom shrunk even though the components stayed the same size.
Wait. I thought the whole point of this experiment was that they extrapolate the size of the proton by actually measuring the size of the orbital. So it's not necessarily that the proton has gotten smaller, just that muons orbit closer than electrons. If anything, they've taken some of the empty space out of the atom.
The extra mass of the muon is holding it in a tighter orbit around the nucleus. We've been kidding ourselves with all this Higgs Boson crap.
we'll have hyperomniphopic, then turbo-omniphopic, then überomniphopic, etc. and all the while we'll still see few, if any, real world applications. These nanoscale surfaces are just too fragile. They'd probably work well for disposable products (although that raises the issue of how well garbage breaks down when it can't even get wet). For some of the most useful applications, the coating would have to be re-applied regularly. That raises the issue of safety of such products. I can only imagine what kind of havoc this stuff would wreak if you were do breath an aerosolized version. Plain liquid versions would be manageable, but even then you'd probably have to wear impervious gloves to make sure it doesn't just soak right in to your bloodstream and head straight for your dura mater. It's fascinating to think of all the possible applications, yet scary as shit to think of all the side effects.
+1 literal lol
People always argue about this being an outdated idea. What chance does an armed populace have against a trained and better armed military? I'd like to start by saying that I don't concede this point, but let's go with it for the sake of argument. Let's say that we as a people are being repressed. Our freedoms are being taken away and there's nothing we can do to stop it. Anyone who rises up or resists faces certain death under the heel of a tyrannical government and their military might. Let's for a second pretend that all those conditions are true. My answer is still, "So fucking what?" What happened to "live free or die"? Do you not remember the song lyrics reminding you not to "exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage"? Put me in that situation without a gun, and I'm still gonna fight back. Be it with an assault rifle or a nail-studded 2x4, I'll still stand up for what I think is right. If good men are willing to risk their lives to preserve our freedom, the least we can do is let them keep their guns.
+1 Internets
Interesting rather than funny? Why are so many slashdotters unable to recognize humor? I think the next poll should be a simple one. Are you Autistic?: Yes/No. I think that would confirm my suspicions.
It makes Jesus cry
Seems every-damn-body's getting the flu this year. Everyone at work's been sick, and it seems to be the only thing people can talk about on my twitter feed. From reading the news, it seems to be a very "aggressive" strain going around this year. I've been in fairly close proximity to several of the stricken, and I've yet to even get the sniffles. Thinking back, I think I know why I seem to have developed the necessary antibodies: A few years ago, I was sitting outside my apartment on the sidewalk as I often like to do when it's drizzly out. Up walked this skinny, white stray cat. It didn't seem to mind the inclement weather and wasn't scared of me as are most of the strays. It sat down right beside me and rubbed it's head against my elbow. As I sat there and petted the filthy little malnourished cat, it coughed. I've never heard a cat cough like that. Not like hacking up a hairball, but like a full grown man with pneumonia or a daily smoker in their 50s. It kinda scared the crap out of me. I felt sorry for the little guy, but there wasn't much I could do. I went inside and promptly washed my hands and thought little more of it until the next morning when I had the aches, chills, and started running a mild fever. That was by far the worst case of the flu I had ever gotten. Despite feeling like death for about 3 days, I didn't go to the doctor. I kinda wish I had, because I'm fairly certain this had to be some crazy, previously unknown strain and it would've been cool to be patient zero. I stayed home a few days sleeping for inordinate amounts of time and popping vitamin C horse pills like they were candy until I recovered. I managed to not spread it to the population at large, which is good because I'm pretty sure it would've wiped out all the elderly and immunocompromised in the area. Since then, I've been fairly impervious to the flu. I mean, I haven't been tempting fate; licking the homeless or anything, but flu seasons have come and gone with no ill effect. I've shared confined spaces with the sick, even using the phone after them and such. When the swine flu panic swept through my part of the country, I all but tried to catch it with no luck. It seems as though I was exposed to some prehistoric alpha-influenza that left me with antibodies for every strain of the flu imaginable. Maybe that kitty had been playing down by the mammoth pit. Who knows? X-files shit.
Sometimes I like to watch my old, grainy movies; you know, the .AVIs you used to download and cram 4 or 5 on a data DVD. I have a really nice hi-def, high refresh rate Samsung, and while it makes HD programming look almost hyper-realistic, it makes my old movies look like hammered ass. I've found that if I just take off my glasses, I don't even notice the pixelation and artifacts. Problem solved.
Just call the next one "Cloud". I store everything in the Cloud.
that's cuz he's dead
Lestat, is that you?
+1 Woosh!
I was raised as one of those old-soul, hippie, organic gardeners. In a perfect world, we'd all grow our own food in our own backyard and we'd probably all be healthier for it. Personally, I'm not a fan of most supermarket produce. If you've never eaten an heirloom tomato grown in your own soil, then you won't understand. Most supermarket produce is bland and devoid of nutrients in comparison to what you pick from your own backyard. However, I realize home gardening isn't terribly plausible for most people. As the human race spreads and populates more of the planet, we have more demand for food and less land to grow it on (it seems a reduction in population would be a better fix, but I'll argue that some other day). I can understand the want to genetically enhance crops. The concern is the motivation. Monsanto isn't fiddling with genetics because they're good folks and want to feed the starving masses; they want to turn a profit. As such, they're GMO is less about hearty, well adjusted plants, and more about terminator seeds and selling more pesticide. They couldn't care less about the health of the people eating their crops, so long as links to health problems aren't tangible enough to make a court case. The truth is, it'll be decades before we know for sure GMOs aren't slowly killing us. I realize most of the research says GMO is safe, and if that GMO was all about doing some good in the world, I'd be lots more likely to take those claims at face value. It might be worth taking a risk if the cause is noble. However, I'd rather not gamble with the health of the entire population for the sake of lining Monsanto's coffers. I, personally, don't want to eat their creations and I don't want to support those evil bastards. That leads to another major point: choice. In a few years, we may not have one. Pollen doesn't stop at fence lines or read signs. When you introduce this type of organism, it spreads. Once it's established, there's no good way to fight it. Once it's in the silo or your cereal box, there's no good way to discern mutant from natural. Just because I don't want to eat their demons seeds, doesn't mean I'll have a choice in the matter.
Who said evolution had to be natural? Did one breed of dog not evolve into several others through selective breeding? Evolution is a result; natural selection, selective breeding, etc are a means to that end. I have to agree (at least I'm assuming we agree) that this doesn't necessarily prove much. When working with a limited gene pool and a short amount of time, you won't necessarily mimic the results of eons of natural selection. Maybe their big brained guppies had a dominant gene for small guts and low libido, but that doesn't mean the guppy population as whole shares these traits. Also, with enough time, you could have all sorts of genetic variations that could potentially result in fat, horny, big-brained guppies. I'm not saying their research is patently flawed, just that it may or may not reflect trends in the real world. It's kinda impossible to know for sure without a spare universe and infinite amounts of time.
I'm pretty sure you meant to post this on /b/