I'm only half joking. Then again, NASA doesn't care. They've been instructed by the US government to go and occupy Russian scientists with fun puzzles until hell freezes over in order to keep them from going to Iran and building nukes.
Although I am and always have been a space nut (I still have the hand-written note sent to me from a NASA administrator in response to a letter I sent when I was seven, in 1979), I must conclude that ISS is a failure.
Firstly, this is a project without a mission. Lets be realistic here - this project was mostly political - unite Russia and the US in a common scientific project. Instead, it has created divisions between the two nations as dollars and schedules slip.
Secondly, even most scientific reasons forst conjured up are no longer valid. Most experimentation regarding materials can no be done cheaper on earth, and less problematically.
Thirdly, hot since "Star Wars" in the eighties has any project wasted more money without any useful payoff. I regard payoff as being valid scientific progress and wonderment for the US public.
Now we come to the discouraging conclusion - our continued neglect of this boondoggle project is requiring expensive maintainence just to keep it at the status quo.
For these reasons and other I susect that they should simply let current segments burn up and maybe take another stab at this in twenty years or so, when it can be done cost-effectively (satellite launchings are pushing the envelope for lift technologies outside of the ISS effort), and with some valid purpose.
I predict that congress will simply direct him to make the materials available whether he like it or not. This man is the chief librarian - he is not in a position to effectively pass access rules on goods that are publically owned.
No, there are plenty of tables and charts out there which contain the necessary data. These allow timely and accurate predictions of every major event in your life.
You really should stay under your pyramid. It looks like you're comfy there.
Very interesting read about some of the weirder aspects of QM they've discovered in the last decade - stuff that is both a particle and a wave at the same time for instance.
You're not the only one who has read up on QM - I've certainly read enough to know that the connection you make between physics and your self-fulfilling prophecies isn't just tenuous, its ridiculous. But in this post-modern era, your use of pseudo science to bolster a ridiculous argument is predictable.
Self-fulfilling prophecies do not an experiment make.
But the point still stands - distant objects can affect you through various quantum mechanical non-local interactions.
None of which you really understand. I don't either, thats why I don't try to form psycho-babble arguments based loosely on what I can gleam from them.
So please, tell me how this is rubbish. I await your reply breathlessly.
First of all, what happen to your notion that this is all proven? You're making considerable stretches here - while I obviously don't understand the depths of Feynmann's theories, its quite clear that you don't either.
The approach you are taking is what is known as "pseudo-science" - you're attempting to place scientific rigor in a critical juncture of your own argument, but it clearly doesn't fit, and its obvious you aren't even sure where to place it.
And besides, so what if a star is no longer there? As long as we are seeing its light then it is still "influencing" us, and so your argument is meaningless.
How is the light inluencing us? Back up your assertion - by the way - arguments of "mass" don't apply to photons in the same way as you've been tossing about so far, so the best I can see you telling me at this point is that looking up at the stars makes me feel all giddy inside.
These "forces we cannot see or measure yet" are called gravity, which, as the structure of spacetime, certainly affects us even though we cannot measure its subtle effects.
Blah Blah Blah - this is drivel. Back to the pyramid power convention with you.
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Last time I looked, travelling at near light speed was not "trivial"
Re-read the post - I said it was trivial to create a measurable difference simply by travelling in an airliner - not measurable to you, but measurable to sensitive timing equipment.
The influencing stars you "see" aren't there now
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Nice try, but the fundamental flaw of your theory is that you believe you are feeling energy instantly being exerted on you by stars you see in the night sky, through quantum entanglement...problem is, what you are seeing is where and how those stars actaully were millions or billions of years ago.
Some of them aren't even there now, even though their light still reaches us.
If your theory of entanglement holds true, then we are being acted upon by forces we cannot see or measure yet, as their light hasn't hit us - looking at existing stars is meaningless.
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You need only board an airliner crossing the ocean, and due ot relativity, time will have moved minutely slower for you than those on the ground. Obviously such differences are indiscernable to us, but they have been maesured.
Taken to its logical conclusion, if you were to take a space trip require extended periods of near-light speed, you would come back to Earth and find that time had passed much moe quickly here than for you on the ship. Your grandchildren could have grown old and died already by time you arrived.
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I really wonder if the schedule isn't overly ambitious...although on the other hand, keeping distance students "interested" (i.e. enrolled) for periods longer than two years is probably equally unrealistic.
It'll be interesting to see just how well the Ars Digita curriculum holds out against traditional four-year programs.
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All discussion aside, the reason "sell disciplines" are used is because gut feelings and hunches typically leave you in a worse position.
If you have a sell discipline, you may get burned now and then on a bouncing stock, but on average, you will have astutely and predictably restricted losses. In the case of LNUX, your sell discipline would have served you well.
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Think again. 1. EBooks are _NOT_/free/.
Read again - I never said EBooks would be Free - only that they would be incredibly cheap.
This is a major problem with technical publications.
What? That they need restitution to cover publishing and distribution costs??? Who is going to pay for them otherwise? The tooth fairy??
3. Our century is already the worst documented one ever.
Well, you can view video or photographic images of most of the importantevents of the 20th century. There are at least one million hours of recorded newscasts. There is at least a petabyte of stored journalism. Run this by me again?????
People who have owned Cisco stock for aover a year are still in the black. This minor downturn doesn't put longterm CSCO stockholders at a loss.
Also, don't blame the LNUX downturn on the greater NASDAQ tumble - LNUX and CALD were both going down even when the NASDAQ was having good weeks. They were acting independently of the market average, which should have scared people immediately.
Since these stocks have not acted in concert with the market average, it is prudent to assume that they will not recover when the greater NASDAQ does.
Sorry, but people who have held YHOO, INTC, CSCO and other blue-chippers for over a year are still in the black, considerably. These stocks will recover.
How do you think the market downturn will affect recent entrants like Linux based stocks?
Simple - since none of these companies really had any business going public (with RHAT maaybe as an exception), its likely they will return to being private companies by voluntarily or by being delisted.
Consider CALD. How can they possibly continue to run a business with a stock that is likely to be punished for months to come? They would be in a far better position right now to still be closely held. Putting CALD up for offering was like throwing a pig into a tornado.
As for the market "cooling to linux", understand that ultimately, every race becomes a two horse race - in linux, this likely means RHAT and IBM. No one is really interested in Corel and Caldera, and no one really thinks that these companies will offer real value in the linux market. While Caldera has been into linux longer than IBM, IBM is doing much more interesting things with it (porting it to all of its machines). Caldera really hasn't done much at all to advance linux other than a nice install. Their value-add is essentially zero.
This is not a bubble market. A bubble market (dutch tulips) are when the market reacts in a way that is counter to the fundamentals. This correction is in line with the fundamentals. Linux companies have no one to blame but themselves and their underwriters for this current fiasco.
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I don't think anyone here really understands the dilemma with LNUX.
You see, this stock tumbled even as NASDAQ showed small recoveries. LNUX and CALD were never acting in concert with the greater NASDAQ - the market average had many positive days and even weeks while theese stocks continued to tumble. So please, don't pin this to the NASDAQ as a whole.
LNUX and CALD had no business going public. Neither have companies like TheGlobe.com and scores of other.coms. This bear market is going to wash them out - and I don't mean just to low prices - I mean to the point of being delisted.
The fun time has come and gone folks - you're not going to see public offerings for unproven companies after this bear has passed - its going to back to fundamentals - you build a succesful business, then you open it to the public.
I see H&Q losing a great deal of value as advising brokers if they continue to put a "buy" rating on LNUX. Its time to concede the obvious - this stock is likely on its way to being delisted within eighteen months.
This is a lesson to all of you - a lesson I have learned in the past and is worth putting in bold:
When you trade stock, have a rigid sell discipline. Don't go by rumours, press releases, or analysts advice - when a stock loses a certain percentage of its value, you SELL NO MATTER WHAT. If you would have used this rule on LNUX and CALD you could have escaped without a total write-off.
THE BEST INVESTORS USE RIGID SELL RULES. BE DISCIPLINED ABOUT SELLING AND YOU CAN PROTECT YOUR ASSets.
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RMS has flaked out again (and like ESR, is starting to seem irrelevant).
Electronic publishing will push the price of literature to extremely low levels. Everyone will be able to obtain a copy of almost any literature they like - its inevitable. The same with music. I really don't see what his gripe is....and more to the point, I don't understand why we continue to give RMS screeds airtime - its clear that while he is a software god, his writings have much to be desired.
Firstly, linux != LNUX, and linux != RHAT and linux != CORL, etc. These are merely outfitters of distributions. If their stock tanks, it doesn't mean squat because we've all still got linux, and the GPL ensures we'll always have it, free to be.
It would be amusing if it were as simple as this, but the value of linux corresponds to its adoption by major vendors. These vendors are paying close attention to the profitability of the linux market, which so far is certainly in question.
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Firstly, this is a project without a mission. Lets be realistic here - this project was mostly political - unite Russia and the US in a common scientific project. Instead, it has created divisions between the two nations as dollars and schedules slip.
Secondly, even most scientific reasons forst conjured up are no longer valid. Most experimentation regarding materials can no be done cheaper on earth, and less problematically.
Thirdly, hot since "Star Wars" in the eighties has any project wasted more money without any useful payoff. I regard payoff as being valid scientific progress and wonderment for the US public.
Now we come to the discouraging conclusion - our continued neglect of this boondoggle project is requiring expensive maintainence just to keep it at the status quo.
For these reasons and other I susect that they should simply let current segments burn up and maybe take another stab at this in twenty years or so, when it can be done cost-effectively (satellite launchings are pushing the envelope for lift technologies outside of the ISS effort), and with some valid purpose.
I predict that congress will simply direct him to make the materials available whether he like it or not. This man is the chief librarian - he is not in a position to effectively pass access rules on goods that are publically owned.
How long will humans be relevant after such a union takes place?
You really should stay under your pyramid. It looks like you're comfy there.
Very interesting read about some of the weirder aspects of QM they've discovered in the last decade - stuff that is both a particle and a wave at the same time for instance.
You're not the only one who has read up on QM - I've certainly read enough to know that the connection you make between physics and your self-fulfilling prophecies isn't just tenuous, its ridiculous. But in this post-modern era, your use of pseudo science to bolster a ridiculous argument is predictable.
They don't need to - they have measurable values and predictable functions by which to determine these values. You don't.
Self-fulfilling prophecies do not an experiment make.
But the point still stands - distant objects can affect you through various quantum mechanical non-local interactions.
None of which you really understand. I don't either, thats why I don't try to form psycho-babble arguments based loosely on what I can gleam from them.
First of all, what happen to your notion that this is all proven? You're making considerable stretches here - while I obviously don't understand the depths of Feynmann's theories, its quite clear that you don't either.
The approach you are taking is what is known as "pseudo-science" - you're attempting to place scientific rigor in a critical juncture of your own argument, but it clearly doesn't fit, and its obvious you aren't even sure where to place it.
How is the light inluencing us? Back up your assertion - by the way - arguments of "mass" don't apply to photons in the same way as you've been tossing about so far, so the best I can see you telling me at this point is that looking up at the stars makes me feel all giddy inside.
These "forces we cannot see or measure yet" are called gravity, which, as the structure of spacetime, certainly affects us even though we cannot measure its subtle effects.
Blah Blah Blah - this is drivel. Back to the pyramid power convention with you.
Re-read the post - I said it was trivial to create a measurable difference simply by travelling in an airliner - not measurable to you, but measurable to sensitive timing equipment.
Some of them aren't even there now, even though their light still reaches us.
If your theory of entanglement holds true, then we are being acted upon by forces we cannot see or measure yet, as their light hasn't hit us - looking at existing stars is meaningless.
Taken to its logical conclusion, if you were to take a space trip require extended periods of near-light speed, you would come back to Earth and find that time had passed much moe quickly here than for you on the ship. Your grandchildren could have grown old and died already by time you arrived.
It'll be interesting to see just how well the Ars Digita curriculum holds out against traditional four-year programs.
If you have a sell discipline, you may get burned now and then on a bouncing stock, but on average, you will have astutely and predictably restricted losses. In the case of LNUX, your sell discipline would have served you well.
Read again - I never said EBooks would be Free - only that they would be incredibly cheap.
This is a major problem with technical publications.
What? That they need restitution to cover publishing and distribution costs??? Who is going to pay for them otherwise? The tooth fairy??
3. Our century is already the worst documented one ever.
Well, you can view video or photographic images of most of the importantevents of the 20th century. There are at least one million hours of recorded newscasts. There is at least a petabyte of stored journalism. Run this by me again?????
Also, don't blame the LNUX downturn on the greater NASDAQ tumble - LNUX and CALD were both going down even when the NASDAQ was having good weeks. They were acting independently of the market average, which should have scared people immediately.
Since these stocks have not acted in concert with the market average, it is prudent to assume that they will not recover when the greater NASDAQ does.
Sorry, but people who have held YHOO, INTC, CSCO and other blue-chippers for over a year are still in the black, considerably. These stocks will recover.
Simple - since none of these companies really had any business going public (with RHAT maaybe as an exception), its likely they will return to being private companies by voluntarily or by being delisted.
Consider CALD. How can they possibly continue to run a business with a stock that is likely to be punished for months to come? They would be in a far better position right now to still be closely held. Putting CALD up for offering was like throwing a pig into a tornado.
As for the market "cooling to linux", understand that ultimately, every race becomes a two horse race - in linux, this likely means RHAT and IBM. No one is really interested in Corel and Caldera, and no one really thinks that these companies will offer real value in the linux market. While Caldera has been into linux longer than IBM, IBM is doing much more interesting things with it (porting it to all of its machines). Caldera really hasn't done much at all to advance linux other than a nice install. Their value-add is essentially zero.
This is not a bubble market. A bubble market (dutch tulips) are when the market reacts in a way that is counter to the fundamentals. This correction is in line with the fundamentals. Linux companies have no one to blame but themselves and their underwriters for this current fiasco.
You see, this stock tumbled even as NASDAQ showed small recoveries. LNUX and CALD were never acting in concert with the greater NASDAQ - the market average had many positive days and even weeks while theese stocks continued to tumble. So please, don't pin this to the NASDAQ as a whole.
LNUX and CALD had no business going public. Neither have companies like TheGlobe.com and scores of other .coms. This bear market is going to wash them out - and I don't mean just to low prices - I mean to the point of being delisted.
The fun time has come and gone folks - you're not going to see public offerings for unproven companies after this bear has passed - its going to back to fundamentals - you build a succesful business, then you open it to the public.
I see H&Q losing a great deal of value as advising brokers if they continue to put a "buy" rating on LNUX. Its time to concede the obvious - this stock is likely on its way to being delisted within eighteen months.
This is a lesson to all of you - a lesson I have learned in the past and is worth putting in bold:
When you trade stock, have a rigid sell discipline. Don't go by rumours, press releases, or analysts advice - when a stock loses a certain percentage of its value, you SELL NO MATTER WHAT. If you would have used this rule on LNUX and CALD you could have escaped without a total write-off.
THE BEST INVESTORS USE RIGID SELL RULES. BE DISCIPLINED ABOUT SELLING AND YOU CAN PROTECT YOUR ASSets.
Electronic publishing will push the price of literature to extremely low levels. Everyone will be able to obtain a copy of almost any literature they like - its inevitable. The same with music. I really don't see what his gripe is....and more to the point, I don't understand why we continue to give RMS screeds airtime - its clear that while he is a software god, his writings have much to be desired.
It would be amusing if it were as simple as this, but the value of linux corresponds to its adoption by major vendors. These vendors are paying close attention to the profitability of the linux market, which so far is certainly in question.
$3/4 million? After taxes he's well below most silicon valley receptionsists.
Who needs to sync up a palm pilot address book when you can use your yahoo (or other) address book directly through a cell phone?
You should note that momentum implies a difficulty in stopping.
It is not impossible that a protracted LNUX slide (which chould happen in a long bear market) could see the stock delisted.