Right. Though what one can only really conclude is that almost all of the material that has been declassified has no bearing on security. Otherwise one needs to demonstrate that the government is diligent about releasing documents that once had a bearing on security, and no longer do, and that they are not extremely conservative in their affordance of this status to classified information. Either case I think is rather unlikely. Much more likely is the case that most of the documents that get released are those that never had a particularly clear relevance to national security, or had one only indirectly. That these are being released at all actually reflects (somewhat) positively on the govt's handling of classified information.
I can't answer your questions, but the WMAP experiment has given us (I believe) best values for the cosmological parameters you're concerned about to date (the results are from 2003). If you look at the summary pdf you'll see that they've determined "dark energy" to be about 73% of the total current energy density of the universe. Note that this is not the same as dark matter, which (broadly) is simply matter that isn't emitting enough light for us to see, and can include white dwarfs, black holes, neutron stars, neutrinos, etc., as well as other forms of matter we aren't presently aware of. Dark energy is more mysterious; the best explanation for it at the moment is the cosmological constant, but even this isn't much of an explanation -- it's just a parameter in an equation. Other attempts at explaining it, e.g. by "vacuum fluctuations" from quantum field theory, have to my knowledge failed spectacularly.
Second: I can't see how you can possibly test any of this.
Perhaps because you're not a string theorist?:)
There is some interesting information about what kind of experiements could give us evidence for string theory here. In fact, some researchers at my school have been involved in tests of the force law of gravity at very small scales in an attempt to find evidence for the extra dimensions that string theory claims exist. Nothing has turned up yet of course, but the likelyhood was fairly small at the scales observed; IIRC, the number of dimensions that gravity propagates through would determine the scale at which changes in the force law would be observed, with higher numbers of dimensions (I think they need to be "compact" dimensions) requiring smaller scales. (Or something like that).
As described in the site linked to above (though I didn't study the material on the site that closely) supersymmetry also offers some good opportunities for gathering evidence for string theory as well using particle accelerators. I'm not sure whether the tests could actually falsify the theory, but then, I'm not a string theorist either, and some more research would no doubt prove enlightening.
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actually, its been announced. I'm runing konq from 2.2.1 right now.
Agreed. The arrogance and disregardance of the arts displayed by some science-types can be rather annoying. Artwork (or should I say good artwork) is an expression of creativity, and true creativity is something beautiful and something to be striven for. Eistein himself was said to have played the violen at times to help him think. What is needed is balance; the mind needs to be stirred and exercised in every possible way.
I have a civics teacher who goes to the beach almost every day after school, gets drunk and "parties" on the weekends, and is rumored to have at one time sold weed to students, who makes 75-80k a year. He's in his fifties and so has a good deal of seniority, but even for the younger teachers the money is probably not bad.
So I guess the school system doesn't differentiate between the "smart" teachers and the others, but just because someone is "smart" doesn't mean he/she deserves more money than anyone else. Sure, your supreme intelligence and superiority as a person won't be indicated by your job title, but it is not a bad career.
Of course, the gram is not a measure of wieght, per say. Weight = mg, or mass times gravity near the surface of the earth (~ 9.8m/s^2), and is a force, which is measured in Newtons.
Forgive me. I'm Just a high school student looking for an excuse to post.
What MS probably imagines is a situation where Whistler users at home are connecting to the net through MSN, where all the access to the actual internet they will have will be through proxies (although I don't know what it's like now) and the internal network will be somehow monitored constantly or user's computers will be protected by the MSN software with exploit fixes released periodically, etc....
the review points out that by "leaving its Windows 9x code base behind, [Microsoft is] creating many potential Windows platform compatibility problems in the process,"
This is a distortion of what the point of that sentence was in the first place. If one takes in to account the sentence just before it in the actual article, the point that there will be compatibility problems is negated:
Whistler contains an application compatibility environment designed to allow the operating system to run many applications intended for Windows 98. This is particularly important because, with Whistler, Microsoft is leaving its Windows 9x code base behind, creating many potential Windows platform compatibility problems in the process.
don't mod me down just because I disagree with the post. I'm just clarifying something.
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Right. Though what one can only really conclude is that almost all of the material that has been declassified has no bearing on security. Otherwise one needs to demonstrate that the government is diligent about releasing documents that once had a bearing on security, and no longer do, and that they are not extremely conservative in their affordance of this status to classified information. Either case I think is rather unlikely. Much more likely is the case that most of the documents that get released are those that never had a particularly clear relevance to national security, or had one only indirectly. That these are being released at all actually reflects (somewhat) positively on the govt's handling of classified information.
I can't answer your questions, but the WMAP experiment has given us (I believe) best values for the cosmological parameters you're concerned about to date (the results are from 2003). If you look at the summary pdf you'll see that they've determined "dark energy" to be about 73% of the total current energy density of the universe. Note that this is not the same as dark matter, which (broadly) is simply matter that isn't emitting enough light for us to see, and can include white dwarfs, black holes, neutron stars, neutrinos, etc., as well as other forms of matter we aren't presently aware of. Dark energy is more mysterious; the best explanation for it at the moment is the cosmological constant, but even this isn't much of an explanation -- it's just a parameter in an equation. Other attempts at explaining it, e.g. by "vacuum fluctuations" from quantum field theory, have to my knowledge failed spectacularly.
Second: I can't see how you can possibly test any of this.
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Perhaps because you're not a string theorist?
There is some interesting information about what kind of experiements could give us evidence for string theory here.
In fact, some researchers at my school have been involved in tests of the force law of gravity at very small scales in an attempt to find evidence for the extra dimensions that string theory claims exist. Nothing has turned up yet of course, but the likelyhood was fairly small at the scales observed; IIRC, the number of dimensions that gravity propagates through would determine the scale at which changes in the force law would be observed, with higher numbers of dimensions (I think they need to be "compact" dimensions) requiring smaller scales. (Or something like that).
As described in the site linked to above (though I didn't study the material on the site that closely) supersymmetry also offers some good opportunities for gathering evidence for string theory as well using particle accelerators. I'm not sure whether the tests could actually falsify the theory, but then, I'm not a string theorist either, and some more research would no doubt prove enlightening.
actually, its been announced. I'm runing konq from 2.2.1 right now.
Agreed. The arrogance and disregardance of the arts displayed by some science-types can be rather annoying. Artwork (or should I say good artwork) is an expression of creativity, and true creativity is something beautiful and something to be striven for. Eistein himself was said to have played the violen at times to help him think. What is needed is balance; the mind needs to be stirred and exercised in every possible way.
can someone please post instructions on how to patch 2.4.0-prerelease??
Thanks!
I have a civics teacher who goes to the beach almost every day after school, gets drunk and "parties" on the weekends, and is rumored to have at one time sold weed to students, who makes 75-80k a year. He's in his fifties and so has a good deal of seniority, but even for the younger teachers the money is probably not bad.
So I guess the school system doesn't differentiate between the "smart" teachers and the others, but just because someone is "smart" doesn't mean he/she deserves more money than anyone else. Sure, your supreme intelligence and superiority as a person won't be indicated by your job title, but it is not a bad career.
thanks!
So has anyone gotten the nvidia driver to work with kernel 2.4.0-test12??
Right now I'm using the 4.0.2 nv driver with my geforce 2 mx, but the colors look slightly strange and the fonts are huge.
thanks. I was a little hesitant to say that, actually.
Of course, the gram is not a measure of wieght, per say. Weight = mg, or mass times gravity near the surface of the earth (~ 9.8m/s^2), and is a force, which is measured in Newtons.
Forgive me. I'm Just a high school student looking for an excuse to post.
I think the missing word is "justify"
What MS probably imagines is a situation where Whistler users at home are connecting to the net through MSN, where all the access to the actual internet they will have will be through proxies (although I don't know what it's like now) and the internal network will be somehow monitored constantly or user's computers will be protected by the MSN software with exploit fixes released periodically, etc....
the review points out that by "leaving its Windows 9x code base behind, [Microsoft is] creating many potential Windows platform compatibility problems in the process,"
This is a distortion of what the point of that sentence was in the first place. If one takes in to account the sentence just before it in the actual article, the point that there will be compatibility problems is negated:
Whistler contains an application compatibility environment designed to allow the operating system to run many applications intended for Windows 98. This is particularly important because, with Whistler, Microsoft is leaving its Windows 9x code base behind, creating many potential Windows platform compatibility problems in the process.
don't mod me down just because I disagree with the post. I'm just clarifying something.
Did anyone else notice that it looks kind of like a huge penguin diving through space??