From that they worked out that gravity does move at the same speed as light. Their actual figure was 0.95 times light speed, but with a large error margin of plus or minus 0.25.
So, really, they're triumphantly announcing that the speed of the light is somewhere between 0.7 c and 1.2 c, and just supposing it has to be c for everything to make sense.
Physicists have been accused of being loose with rigour, but this is really stretching it.
I have not seen a clear argument that the technical superiority of Linux comes from anything other than its being Free (or open, if you prefer).
I'm talking about well-engineered OS functions and shells that are well-engineered simply because generations of frustrated coders have rewritten them until they Just Work. This includes standard UNIX tools which Linux has inherited.
I have seen no convincing arguments that the underlying architecture of Linux is better than that of Windows, only circumstantial data about reliability to suggest this is true.
Can you think of a clear reason Linux is better than Windows that is not a consequence of its being Free?
It can't really be much of a good idea if it's impossible to enforce can it? I think the most that we can say is that chilling put-down "their hearts were in the right place".
I don't suppose the fact they aren't used in crimes could have anything to do with the fact that the government won't let you own one. Could it, now?
Hmm, I should not have used the word "you" there, since I just realized this could be read as insinuating that you personally owning such a gun would mean it would be used in a crime.
It's completely appropriate to neglect the fact that Hitler hated Jews when discussing his economic policies...
Given that a huge part of the sudden return to economic prosperity Germany achieved after 1933 was from Hitler's seizures of Jewish property and bank accounts, no, I don't think you can neglect the fact that Hitler hated Jews when discussing his economic policies.
I see your point; it just happens that these two particular things are not independent.
It isn't leeching when the government itself provides the social infrastructure that makes it possible for these companies to make a profit.
In any case, your argument is ridiculous. Governments are perfectly able to invent and charge new taxes whenever they want to. If you don't like it, make sure they aren't elected.
There is nothing new or innovative about online retailing at all. Nothing.
Up until now (13:20CEST), there still isn't any moderator that got it... Don't you guys read classics? Antoine de Saint Exupery must be turning in his grave (well, if he had one...)
Sigh... believe it or not, it's good to know there is at least one person who got the reference, though.:)
I spoof From all the time, because the email address I use for all personal mail is part of an email-forwarding-for-life service I got when I graduated from university. But as it just does email forwarding, it offers no SMTP service, so I'm obliged to forge if I want to use it.
Mind you, when I say I spoof "From:" I'm talking about the From: in the message, not in the envelope -- you can still see exactly where my message came from if you read the headers.
Setting Reply-To: would be sufficient for me, but I think it would just confuse others, especially people unfamiliar with the intracacies of such things (e.g. my parents).
Have you ever even bothered to look at the list of GPL compatible licenses? [gnu.org] And I quote:
Do you have any idea what you're talking about? And I quote (from your link!):
We classify a license according to certain key questions:
Whether it is compatible with the GNU GPL. (This means you can combine a module which was released under that license with a GPL-covered module to make one larger program.)
So, from the above we see that GPL compatible licenses are licenses for code which permit you to modify that code and redistribute it under the GPL, not licenses that are "equivalent" to the GPL.
You can do whatever the hell you want with public domain code, as it's under even fewer restrictions than code under the BSD license. This obviously includes redistributing it under the GPL. But just as obviously, you can't take GPL'ed code and release it under the public domain.
The original poster is quite right in that promoting public-domain software would make RMS mad and Bill Gates happy.
@agnesi[54]% oed gnu
gnu (nu:). Also 8 gnoo. [Hottentot word.] A South African quadruped (Catoblepas
gnu), belonging to the antelope family, but resembling an ox or buffalo in
shape; also known by its Dutch name wildebeest. The brindled gnu (Catoblepas
gorgon) is a distinct species.
1777 G. FORSTER Voy. round World I. 83 There is another species of wild ox,
called by the natives gnoo. 1786 SPARRMANN Voy. Cape G.H. II. 132 The gnu
resembles the antilopes and caprae in its hair, inasmuch as this is short.
1834 PRINGLE Afr. Sk. viii. 273 The gnu, which is now become rare. 1857
LIVINGSTONE Trav. iii. 56 The presence of the..gnu is always a certain
indication of water. 1884-5 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) V. 341 The Brindled
gnu or Blue Wildebeest..(Catoblephas gorgon) is still found in Zululand, and
abundant in Damaraland.
It becomes tedious after a point to qualify words like "impossible" and "no coming back" with "as long as relativity holds" and "as long as our theories reflect reality".
In any case, I don't think the OP was wrong in saying that physics stopped at the edge of an event horizon, though the difference is just semantic. I regard physics is a compilation of our present understanding of natural laws, not as the collection of laws themselves.
This is why we can talk about Einstein "creating" a new physics: relativity did not exist until he formulated it, even though the natural behaviour which relativity seeks to explain was there before him.
It's true that often when the size of a black hole is mentioned, it is the Swartzchild radius or "Event Horizon" that is being mentioned, being it's apparent size to our instruments.
It's spelled Schwartzschild -- as in "black shield" in German.
Sorry for the pedantry, but I had a tensors prof who grated us on that point needlessly for an entire lecture, so I can't help mentioning it.
Blazing red hair is a very recessive trait created entirely by past inbreeding in Europe -- and past inbreeding is a common heritage for Europe, as well, since most Europeans can trace their ancestors back to a very small group of perhaps a dozen Ice Age survivors.
It's important to point out that traits and genes are not actually created by inbreeding, just expressed. (I realize you probably know this, but it needs to be emphasized).
Do you have a reference for the claim that Europeans are descended from "perhaps a dozen" Ice Age survivors? I've seen mitochrondrial DNA studies that can trace matrilineal inheritance back to this many women, but that's quite different from an estimate on a population bottleneck.
In particular, it's quite possible for the size of the population could be much larger, but forfemale-line descendents of other "clan mothers" to have died out since.
This paper argues against the idea of a Pleistocene human population bottleneck:
Both genetic and anthropological data are
incompatible with the hypothesis of a recent population size bottleneck. Such an event would be expected to leave
a significant mark across numerous genetic loci and observable anatomical traits, but while some subsets of data
are compatible with a recent population size bottleneck, there is no consistently expressed effect that can be found
across the range where it should appear, and this absence disproves the hypothesis.
Lastly, I think forecasting the total extinction of redheads is a wee bit premature. The genes are out there, and while their frequency may decrease with time due to low birthrates in Europe and North America, you'd have a hard time convincing me that European descendents are going to leave no offspring at all. As long as there are two people carrying redheaded genes, whatever other "weird" phenotypes they have, their kids will have red hair. And it's not as though we're all about to go breeding willy-nilly.
All we know about these 2 stories with relation to time is that the date takes place sometime after the 'main' story.
Not true. Vincent gets shot by the Boxer while staking out his apartment, so the date can't be after that.
Early in the movie, the two hitmen walk into some bar while discussing Vincent's date, coming right from the diner, still wearing the dorky clothes they put on after cleaning up Marvin.
If not actually simultaneous, each story definitely overlaps each other story in time.
First off: dude, apples and oranges. You're comparing people starving to death from economic sanctions and soulless global capitalism with people who are unable to download porn quickly.
Next, from my rather lefty perspective, I find an inordinate number of the Slashdot crowd irritatingly libertarian. It's all about perspective.
Why the hell was this moderated as flamebait? Apparently a direct, polite response to flamebait is itself flamebait. Or someone's a bit touchy about being called a libertarian.
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Have a look at the messageboard. This guy is a troll in the true Slashdot style: random profanity, multiple accounts, and goatse.cx links.
By the way, regarding the latte: if you follow the above link, do not click on the post with subject line "Do you recognize this insect?".
Maybe if you live in a multi-storey apartment?
From that they worked out that gravity does move at the same speed as light. Their actual figure was 0.95 times light speed, but with a large error margin of plus or minus 0.25.
So, really, they're triumphantly announcing that the speed of the light is somewhere between 0.7 c and 1.2 c, and just supposing it has to be c for everything to make sense.
Physicists have been accused of being loose with rigour, but this is really stretching it.
I have not seen a clear argument that the technical superiority of Linux comes from anything other than its being Free (or open, if you prefer).
I'm talking about well-engineered OS functions and shells that are well-engineered simply because generations of frustrated coders have rewritten them until they Just Work. This includes standard UNIX tools which Linux has inherited.
I have seen no convincing arguments that the underlying architecture of Linux is better than that of Windows, only circumstantial data about reliability to suggest this is true.
Can you think of a clear reason Linux is better than Windows that is not a consequence of its being Free?
It can't really be much of a good idea if it's impossible to enforce can it? I think the most that we can say is that chilling put-down "their hearts were in the right place".
I don't suppose the fact they aren't used in crimes could have anything to do with the fact that the government won't let you own one. Could it, now?
Hmm, I should not have used the word "you" there, since I just realized this could be read as insinuating that you personally owning such a gun would mean it would be used in a crime.
he gub'mint here won't let you own a machine gun (even though they aren't used in crimes)
I don't suppose the fact they aren't used in crimes could have anything to do with the fact that the government won't let you own one. Could it, now?
It's completely appropriate to neglect the fact that Hitler hated Jews when discussing his economic policies...
Given that a huge part of the sudden return to economic prosperity Germany achieved after 1933 was from Hitler's seizures of Jewish property and bank accounts, no, I don't think you can neglect the fact that Hitler hated Jews when discussing his economic policies.
I see your point; it just happens that these two particular things are not independent.
Actually in French-Canadian they'd say c'est incroyable.
It isn't leeching when the government itself provides the social infrastructure that makes it possible for these companies to make a profit.
In any case, your argument is ridiculous. Governments are perfectly able to invent and charge new taxes whenever they want to. If you don't like it, make sure they aren't elected.
There is nothing new or innovative about online retailing at all. Nothing.
Go to http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en and you won't be redirected to google.ca.
Up until now (13:20CEST), there still isn't any moderator that got it...
:)
Don't you guys read classics? Antoine de Saint Exupery must be turning in his grave (well, if he had one...)
Sigh... believe it or not, it's good to know there is at least one person who got the reference, though.
It's CORRECTLY pronounced with a silent "G".
I know. I wasn't replying to your post, but to the AC who replied to you, who said "Well... guh-KNEW is how you pronounce 'gnu.'".
I guess you probably didn't see that post because you're browsing at 1.
I spoof From all the time, because the email address I use for all personal mail is part of an email-forwarding-for-life service I got when I graduated from university. But as it just does email forwarding, it offers no SMTP service, so I'm obliged to forge if I want to use it.
Mind you, when I say I spoof "From:" I'm talking about the From: in the message, not in the envelope -- you can still see exactly where my message came from if you read the headers.
Setting Reply-To: would be sufficient for me, but I think it would just confuse others, especially people unfamiliar with the intracacies of such things (e.g. my parents).
Basically it is a form of steganography. The only thing unique is that the information isn't an arbitrary message, but just enough to label the image.
This is called digital watermarking.
Do you have any idea what you're talking about? And I quote (from your link!):
We classify a license according to certain key questions:
Whether it is compatible with the GNU GPL. (This means you can combine a module which was released under that license with a GPL-covered module to make one larger program.)
So, from the above we see that GPL compatible licenses are licenses for code which permit you to modify that code and redistribute it under the GPL, not licenses that are "equivalent" to the GPL.
You can do whatever the hell you want with public domain code, as it's under even fewer restrictions than code under the BSD license. This obviously includes redistributing it under the GPL. But just as obviously, you can't take GPL'ed code and release it under the public domain.
The original poster is quite right in that promoting public-domain software would make RMS mad and Bill Gates happy.
@agnesi[54]% oed gnu gnu (nu:). Also 8 gnoo. [Hottentot word.] A South African quadruped (Catoblepas gnu), belonging to the antelope family, but resembling an ox or buffalo in shape; also known by its Dutch name wildebeest. The brindled gnu (Catoblepas gorgon) is a distinct species.
1777 G. FORSTER Voy. round World I. 83 There is another species of wild ox, called by the natives gnoo. 1786 SPARRMANN Voy. Cape G.H. II. 132 The gnu resembles the antilopes and caprae in its hair, inasmuch as this is short. 1834 PRINGLE Afr. Sk. viii. 273 The gnu, which is now become rare. 1857 LIVINGSTONE Trav. iii. 56 The presence of the..gnu is always a certain indication of water. 1884-5 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) V. 341 The Brindled gnu or Blue Wildebeest..(Catoblephas gorgon) is still found in Zululand, and abundant in Damaraland.
Also, a similar orbit does not mean that the climate is also known to be similar a priori.
Climate?? Did you miss reading that this thing is like 100 metres wide? What kind of climate are you expecting?
At the most, we could expect an asteroid of that size to support a little boy, maybe some sheep, and a flower. :)
It becomes tedious after a point to qualify words like "impossible" and "no coming back" with "as long as relativity holds" and "as long as our theories reflect reality".
In any case, I don't think the OP was wrong in saying that physics stopped at the edge of an event horizon, though the difference is just semantic. I regard physics is a compilation of our present understanding of natural laws, not as the collection of laws themselves.
This is why we can talk about Einstein "creating" a new physics: relativity did not exist until he formulated it, even though the natural behaviour which relativity seeks to explain was there before him.
It's true that often when the size of a black hole is mentioned, it is the Swartzchild radius or "Event Horizon" that is being mentioned, being it's apparent size to our instruments.
It's spelled Schwartzschild -- as in "black shield" in German.
Sorry for the pedantry, but I had a tensors prof who grated us on that point needlessly for an entire lecture, so I can't help mentioning it.
Blazing red hair is a very recessive trait created entirely by past inbreeding in Europe -- and past inbreeding is a common heritage for Europe, as well, since most Europeans can trace their ancestors back to a very small group of perhaps a dozen Ice Age survivors.
It's important to point out that traits and genes are not actually created by inbreeding, just expressed. (I realize you probably know this, but it needs to be emphasized).
Do you have a reference for the claim that Europeans are descended from "perhaps a dozen" Ice Age survivors? I've seen mitochrondrial DNA studies that can trace matrilineal inheritance back to this many women, but that's quite different from an estimate on a population bottleneck. In particular, it's quite possible for the size of the population could be much larger, but forfemale-line descendents of other "clan mothers" to have died out since.
This paper argues against the idea of a Pleistocene human population bottleneck:
Both genetic and anthropological data are incompatible with the hypothesis of a recent population size bottleneck. Such an event would be expected to leave a significant mark across numerous genetic loci and observable anatomical traits, but while some subsets of data are compatible with a recent population size bottleneck, there is no consistently expressed effect that can be found across the range where it should appear, and this absence disproves the hypothesis.
Lastly, I think forecasting the total extinction of redheads is a wee bit premature. The genes are out there, and while their frequency may decrease with time due to low birthrates in Europe and North America, you'd have a hard time convincing me that European descendents are going to leave no offspring at all. As long as there are two people carrying redheaded genes, whatever other "weird" phenotypes they have, their kids will have red hair. And it's not as though we're all about to go breeding willy-nilly.
You're right, though I've usually seen it written as Cronos.
All we know about these 2 stories with relation to time is that the date takes place sometime after the 'main' story.
Not true. Vincent gets shot by the Boxer while staking out his apartment, so the date can't be after that.
Early in the movie, the two hitmen walk into some bar while discussing Vincent's date, coming right from the diner, still wearing the dorky clothes they put on after cleaning up Marvin.
If not actually simultaneous, each story definitely overlaps each other story in time.
James Woods: Well, my work is done here, I'm off to fight aliens on a faraway planet.
Marge: My, Mr. Woods, I'll look forward to seeing that movie!
James Woods: (Chuckles, eyes dart nervously about) Ahh, yes...heh...a movie....
First off: dude, apples and oranges. You're comparing people starving to death from economic sanctions and soulless global capitalism with people who are unable to download porn quickly.
Next, from my rather lefty perspective, I find an inordinate number of the Slashdot crowd irritatingly libertarian. It's all about perspective.
Moderation Totals: Flamebait=1, Insightful=2, Total=3.
Why the hell was this moderated as flamebait?
Apparently a direct, polite response to flamebait is itself flamebait. Or someone's a bit touchy about being called a libertarian.