Sure you can. If you send two protons directly at each other with a center-of-mass kinetic energy of E=q^2/(2r), where q is the charge of the proton and r is the radius of the proton, you'll get the things close enough that the protons interact via the strong nuclear force.
There have been no observations made, since the time when people started being careful about their observations, that require the existence of a God. No evidence suggests that there is a God that cannot be explained by simpler, purely natural phenomena.
I can't prove God doesn't exist, but I don't need to. My world works just fine without a God, and if you want me to give your superstitions a second thought, you need to give me a reason why I should.
The burden of proof here is on the supernaturalists.
Oh, yeesh. Someone get this guy a cheap lens that suffers badly from chromatic aberration (I hear Sony cameras come with one included) and watch the drivel about 'auras'.
However, I have seen a whole lot of things in my life, and not a one of them requires a God to explain it.
Given a choice between two systems of belief, which would you prefer? The one with Maxwell's equations and quantum electrodynamics and all the rest that accurately predict things out to twelve digits, or "God does whatever he wants to at the moment."
I don't have proof that God doesn't exist, but it's highly unlikely that She does. That's enough for me.
Delivery of products by big truck is far more efficient than the traditional retail method of buying things. Retail is grossly inefficient: you've got all the floor workers, the physical maintenance of the building itself, and then the huge amount of cash and effort that goes into marketing that gets spent on retail stores. Amazon.com or wherever has none of that: they've got some web-lackeys making a website and a bunch of stuff sitting in warehouses, and if you pay them money they dump some of it on a big truck and take it to you.
Well, they've got to tax *something* to pay for our roads and such, and I don't really care what they tax as long as it's done in a sensible manner.
But we'd need far fewer taxes if we weren't pissing away money in Iraq, which comes back to your sig: I don't support the troops because every dollar spent in Iraq is a dollar taken (by threat of force) from some ordinary American. I don't mind giving money to the government as long as I get something for it, but -- if Uncle Sam is going to waste it -- can I have it back?
This is so true. Conversation with a math PhD student last night (who is in her mid-twenties and doesn't have a driver's license):
Me: My car battery is dead. Her: Eek, how expensive is a new one? Me: It's not broken, just discharged. I just need to recharge it. Her: How do you do that? Me: *explains about starter motors and alternators and jumper cables*
Well, I'd notice a spambot running from spurious network activity, and my ISP is certainly right to disconnect me if something like that happens and I don't fix it first.
All I have to say is that it's not happened yet, and that I believe the risk of h4x0r-types screwing up my system is less than Microsoft screwing up my system.
And, to date, I've spent more time cleaning up after Microsoft updates than dealing with intrusions. In the worst case, I blow away the partition and reload everything from backups. No biggie.
I have Windows Update configured to bounce off of my firewall.
I don't want to mess with it, don't want to re-delete the Exploder and WMP icons every time I get a patch. If some h4x0r feels the need to mess with my Windows (=games) machine and gets past the firewall, he can have it.
Um, there are gamma-ray bursts going off billions of LY away that we observe every day.
All the various frequencies seem to arrive together, as I recall. If string theory does indeed predict that the vacuum has some dispersion, then wouldn't GRB's be a good way to test it?
Or would we only see the dispersion by observing a region of spectrum many orders of magnitude wider?
Yes. The computer autolimits to 800MHz on battery. I've never run that system with under 512MB RAM, so I can't speak to the RAM limitation, but Firefox is just fine on an A64@800.
If you've got memory constraints, I would think Opera would be a better browser anyway.
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Sure you can. If you send two protons directly at each other with a center-of-mass kinetic energy of E=q^2/(2r), where q is the charge of the proton and r is the radius of the proton, you'll get the things close enough that the protons interact via the strong nuclear force.
A statement of fact, however, is the following:
There have been no observations made, since the time when people started being careful about their observations, that require the existence of a God. No evidence suggests that there is a God that cannot be explained by simpler, purely natural phenomena.
I can't prove God doesn't exist, but I don't need to. My world works just fine without a God, and if you want me to give your superstitions a second thought, you need to give me a reason why I should.
The burden of proof here is on the supernaturalists.
Oh, yeesh. Someone get this guy a cheap lens that suffers badly from chromatic aberration (I hear Sony cameras come with one included) and watch the drivel about 'auras'.
I have no proof that God does not exist.
However, I have seen a whole lot of things in my life, and not a one of them requires a God to explain it.
Given a choice between two systems of belief, which would you prefer? The one with Maxwell's equations and quantum electrodynamics and all the rest that accurately predict things out to twelve digits, or "God does whatever he wants to at the moment."
I don't have proof that God doesn't exist, but it's highly unlikely that She does. That's enough for me.
the US Army is sitting on top of about half of the proved oil assetts on the planet earth, and that's not exactly a bad place to put it.
So you're proposing we insure a supply of cheap fuel by conquest? Does this really benefit the entire country in the long run?
How many (non-greenhouse-gas-emitting) nuclear plants can you build for $2 trillion? Hint: a lot.
But how is the ISP going to even determine whether I'm using netradio or not? All they see is a bunch of bits.
Well, I *don't* get something in return (and neither does anyone else) for a lot of the money I give the government. That's why I'm pissed off.
How can they tax VoIP and net-radio?
How can they even tell the difference between a netradio stream over SSL and, say, a sftp transfer?
If they *really* wanted to assure affordable internet access, they'd actively encourage municipal wifi.
Delivery of products by big truck is far more efficient than the traditional retail method of buying things. Retail is grossly inefficient: you've got all the floor workers, the physical maintenance of the building itself, and then the huge amount of cash and effort that goes into marketing that gets spent on retail stores. Amazon.com or wherever has none of that: they've got some web-lackeys making a website and a bunch of stuff sitting in warehouses, and if you pay them money they dump some of it on a big truck and take it to you.
Well, they've got to tax *something* to pay for our roads and such, and I don't really care what they tax as long as it's done in a sensible manner.
But we'd need far fewer taxes if we weren't pissing away money in Iraq, which comes back to your sig: I don't support the troops because every dollar spent in Iraq is a dollar taken (by threat of force) from some ordinary American. I don't mind giving money to the government as long as I get something for it, but -- if Uncle Sam is going to waste it -- can I have it back?
The main reason a lot of people have Windows is to play games.
I don't think anyone's going to mod an XO with a Geforce 7600, so what's the point?
This is so true. Conversation with a math PhD student last night (who is in her mid-twenties and doesn't have a driver's license):
Me: My car battery is dead.
Her: Eek, how expensive is a new one?
Me: It's not broken, just discharged. I just need to recharge it.
Her: How do you do that?
Me: *explains about starter motors and alternators and jumper cables*
Ah, I'd thought that the more recent taxonomy put Homo spp. as distinct from apes.
I stand corrected.
Y'know, I'd almost rather have the monkey anatomy, more optimized for bipedalism. Imagine the uses for prehensile tails in bed!
Well, I'd notice a spambot running from spurious network activity, and my ISP is certainly right to disconnect me if something like that happens and I don't fix it first.
All I have to say is that it's not happened yet, and that I believe the risk of h4x0r-types screwing up my system is less than Microsoft screwing up my system.
And, to date, I've spent more time cleaning up after Microsoft updates than dealing with intrusions. In the worst case, I blow away the partition and reload everything from backups. No biggie.
I have Windows Update configured to bounce off of my firewall.
I don't want to mess with it, don't want to re-delete the Exploder and WMP icons every time I get a patch. If some h4x0r feels the need to mess with my Windows (=games) machine and gets past the firewall, he can have it.
My ancestors came from apes, actually. No tails, and all of that.
Six days to write *that*?
Genesis is all bullshit;
I've got all my ribs!
Um, there are gamma-ray bursts going off billions of LY away that we observe every day.
All the various frequencies seem to arrive together, as I recall. If string theory does indeed predict that the vacuum has some dispersion, then wouldn't GRB's be a good way to test it?
Or would we only see the dispersion by observing a region of spectrum many orders of magnitude wider?
But what's it predict?
No measurements; not physics
But metaphysics.
This is what Picasa does, btw.
right, but if you don't distribute it and just run it locally...
Somehow I doubt they have the archives of all the binary groups.
I fail to see how one can legally enforce a difference between
vi foo.c
and
gcc foo.c -o foo
Isn't compilation of source just "looking" at that source in a highly automated way?
Yes. The computer autolimits to 800MHz on battery. I've never run that system with under 512MB RAM, so I can't speak to the RAM limitation, but Firefox is just fine on an A64@800.
If you've got memory constraints, I would think Opera would be a better browser anyway.