There are some empirical predictions of Heim theory which can in principle be experimentally verified, but this has not been achieved to date. These include
* Predictions for the masses of neutrinos, and...
The mass for the neutron has been predicted by the formula a decade before experimental data existed....
Have any onf you people visted Azul's website? This is not an Intel compatible machine. It is going to only run a Java Virtual Machine so anything written in Java will run on it. Windows will not run on it. I took some operating system courses in college and the intel architecture is a huge mess of hideousness of backwards compatibility that luckily only operating system implementers have to deal with. By only running Java these guys get to sidestep the whole mess and focus on massively optimizing the hardware architecture for running java code.
The best reason of all to experiment on mice though is to get back at them for the spreading (via fleas) the 13th century Black Death plague that led to over a 3rd of Europe's population dying! Just think of the irony! They tried to eliminate us by spreading disease and we are using them for medical research!
When 46-year-old Jeff Reynolds was told by his doctor that the bone fragments used to repair his neck had come from a suspect company...
You thought that now they're turning 60 their influence is starting to wane.... WELL YOU'RE WRONG! Your body parts are their new status symbols! Nothing will prepare you for the horror, the mayhem and the fright of :
Invasion of the Body Snatchers II: Revenge and Resurrection of the Aging Baby Boomers (Sountrack by the Greatful Dead)
} while (revenue > costs)/**
The above function says that if your costs of marketing and paying programmers is less than the
amount of money you make from selling the software than you'll always keep hiring programmers.
Since there are tons and tons of possible profitable applications to make there will almost
always be more work than there are programmers whether they are payed a lot or a little. The
cheaper programmers are more likely to get hired first but, from a business standpoint, after
all the cheap programmers are hired it will still make sense to employ the more expensive ones. **/
I always will pay more than a non-metered service than a complexly metered service that would cost less. That's because it's just an extra set of variables that needs to be added to be considered with every usage of the system and that takes money and time. I would never get metered cell phone data services. I would happily pay $20/month for unmetered, as a I do with my sidekick. Adding service level restrictions would make it more ridiculous. In fact I recently rejected a DNS provider's pitch because they wanted to cap the number of unique queries I could do, even though they wanted a considerable monthly fee. I told them that I don't even WANT TO THINK about how many DNS queries people are doing a month and that was the deal breaker.
It seems that everyone thinks that the way to make more money is to play games with your customers. This is the same kind of thing with DRM schemes like Napster to Go, Mail-In Rebates, Credit Card Late fees, etc. All of this adds a whole new dimension of wasted economic activity because the company has to calculate and bill for the usage using ridiculously complicated software and the customer has to take all these crazy rules into account when using the product. You may hate Walmart but one of the reasons it has been so successful is it reduces the complexity of retail transactions. There are no sales. There are no rebates, gimmicks, etc. You don't have to jump through hoops, apply for a walmart rewards card or do anything to get the best deal. Never underestimate the power of simplicity.
The fact is, pretty much nobody knows what the hell Heim theory predicts.
Actually, Heim Theory predicts that if you get a really big magnet of 20 tesla or so and spin it real fast you'll negate gravity to some extent over a specific area. This is an actual testable hypothesis. This is the hypothesis outlined in the AAIA award winning paper. So far string theory has no testable hypothesis. All that needs to happen is for somebody which such equipment to test out the theory. Which means a large gov lab or something like that.
String Theory: No experimentally testable hypothesis Heim Theory: Experimentally Testable Hypothesis
Ok which one is more scientific and which one is just a bunch of math?
Jones told Reuters he is out to 'restore an atmosphere of respectful political discourse on campus' and says his efforts are aimed at academics who proselytize students from either side of the ideological spectrum, conservative or liberal.
The real problem I have with this position is that the whole political spectrum concept is the wrong paradigm for approaching the problem of dysfunctional approaches to the over politicization of education. First, the political spectrum concept has flaws, as has been widely known for some time, thanks to the Nolan Chart and other alternative political spectrums.
Secondly, what ever happened to seeking the truth? That's the real problem with university political education. For instance, there is not much research being done at universities, who are instead just focused on shilling for and indoctrinating people toward their side. In the media, nobody focuses on what to do and how and why to do it -- instead the focus is all on ad hominem attacks against the other side. If the left vs right war wasn't front and center, all day, every day, people might be studying concepts like The Land Value Tax. Which is an interesting approach to taxation that is not really a left vs right or center issue. These things never get much attention in the political dialogue because the academic and media political dialogue has become, well, politicized. Nowadays, the only thing approaching "research" goes on in political think tanks, as their members can escape politicization, or at least already agree with the principles of the think tank's governance.
Don't forget Thomas Malthus and his Malthusian Catastrophe that in the late 18th century began the whole legacy of predictions of an overpopulation/environmental castastrophe leading to diaster. Thankfully, most of these predictions have not come to pass, but they still keep getting made on a regular basis.
Looks like they are generating 3.1 Gigawatts total. Not bad but not a whole lot. They are adding about 300mw a year. I'll leave out oil from the energy statistics because liquid fuels is a whole nother' ball of yarn that I'll let slide. However, If you look at total natural gas usage up at the top of the spread sheet it's 15 times their wind power. This natural gas could be replaced by electricity for heating so I would say that electricity meets about 5% of their total fuel budget along with other renewables, most notably "Wastes".
The average coal plant produces 600 megawatts of electricity Link. The entire output of an Ovionics Solar Cell assemply plant is enough electricity to produce 30 megawatts a year if all solar cells are used simultaneously, in sunny weather, during the day Link. That means that you have to have 20 years worth of production from that plant to get enough solar cells to equal a coal plant. Wind is a little better with the largest onshore turbines producing 2.5megawatts Link. Or about 240 needed to reproduce a coal plant, when the wind is blowing. There are about 62 gigawatts of new generating capacity in the works, according to the CS monitor story, for the continental U.S.
But what about solar powered homes? The average home uses 10656 kw/h per year or about 1.21 kw constant load Link. The average aluminum smelting plant uses 300mw of electricity or 250,000 times as much Link. The average chemical plant uses 12mw constant load or almost 1000x as much Link. There are lots of similar industrial users. <sarcasm> Of course, who needs all those plants anyway? Doesn't produce anything usefull? All just pollution right? </sarcasm>
Sure there's plenty of little stuff we can do about the energy problems of the world but I think the problem is far far bigger than most people imagine. So basically given the above, environmentalists really have no solution to the world's energy problem except de-industrialization and I really doubt we are going to go along with that much less China, India, Russia, or Brazil. There you go, with a little math I spoiled the whole alternative energy debate. You have read the last chapter of the book on Global warming: There is no solution (except nuclear!). If you have some alternative examples show me and please make sure they include actual figures in megawatts. Not things like "wind energy potential" but instead, how long it would take to build, how much money, how much energy would be provided, etc. BTW, I'm not saying that some technological revolution isn't going to save us but please, let's get some numbers into the discussion!
The relative innocence and stable period of the last 50 years may spiral into a nearly inevitable exposure to real chaos. What if it isn't haphazard testosterone driven riots, where they cannibalize their own neighborhood, much like in L.A. in the 80s, but someone with real insight behind that criminal energy ? What if Slashdotters start musing aloud about "Gee, the L.A. water supply is rather simplistic, isn't it?" An Open Source crime web, a Wiki for real WTO opposition ? Hacking L.A. may be a lot easier than hacking IE.
This guy doesn't realize that most slashdotters would not be up to this. Most have never even left their parent's basement...
I had a boss who was into the same thing. I went and implemented version control and bug tracking anyway going around his orders. In my humble opinion, I think the main reason he was against this was that he was paranoid about something, I have no idea what, and because of this paranoia he had made up his mind that he didn't want any kind of paper trail as to development activities.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own _correspondent/2255991.stm The Dutch, who settled the previously uninhabited island in the early 17th century, referred to the dodo as the walgvogel, or "ghastly bird." This was apparently because, no matter which way you cooked it, its flesh was as tough as old boots. However, that didn't stop the colonisers hunting the poor dodo down.
Yeah that was way offtopic. Too much coffee today:/. Oddly enough Yonah is also the name of a Jewish tora book read during Yum Kippur, a mountain, etc. Come to think of it, any pronounceable word with fewer than 6 letters is probably in use somewhere for something. Branding is hard!
Ruby is not statically typed, which means that if you have a very large program and you change an API in that program you have to go and find all the instances of calls to that API in your program yourself, either through running automated tests or seeing the broken calls in the debug log of your application. Compiled langauges on the other hand such as Java,C,C++,C# have static calling conventions which means that when you break an api the compiler will point out all the broken calls to you and not let you run your program till you fix them all. This tends to make statically typed languages more maintainable. If you need to break out of static calling conventions you can in Java at least using introspection and bytecode enhancement but this is usually only done in well defined scenarios inside of application frameworks instead of for every class like in Ruby.
Can you imagine all the bizarre and ugly animated racing decals that they are going to start putting on their cars? Now you're going to not only have to plug your ears to keep their thundering bass speakers from making you go deaf, but you'll also have to invest in a pair of sunglasses to protect your eyes from the blinding animated displays.
Americans for some reason have a weird bias against efficiency; I always hear these kinds of objections when an idea to make something more energy efficient comes up. It's almost like we're afraid of it.
I know exactly what you are talking about. I have spent a lot of time arguing energy technology and efficiency on peak oil message boards and it kind of goes like this:
Unabomber: Oh goody, peak oil is going to happen we're all going back to live on subsistance farms and industrial society and all those idiots with SUVs will be punished!
Me: Hey, but what about technology X?
Unabomber: Look at the EROEI (Energy Returned on Energy Invested). To get all the steel out of the ground to build that would cause huge amounts of global warming.
Me: Ok, but it's something right? It will make life better right and the investment will eventually pay off?
Unabomber: Ha Ha! Nothing can stop the doom of technological society. Your puny inventions are no use!
Me: But I kinda like technological society.
Unabomber: Nature must punish you for your hubris to rise above the other animals. Repent and move back to an organic farm while there is still time!!!
Me: Well I'm going to ignore you and build technology X anyway.
Unabomber: But you'll cause global warming and keep perpetuating your unsustainable way of life.
While both.NET and Java are free, the application servers they run on are not. For ASP.NET, IIS is the application server. For Java/J2EE, it could be Web Sphere or a variety of others. In pretty much every case a Windows license will be a lot cheaper than the license for the J2EE app server... especially Web Sphere.
Ok that does it you are shill. Jboss? Jetty? Tomcat? And you can run those all on Linux on the latest well supported JDK 1.5 just fine for $0.
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Having contributed to a Java open source webapp, the main problem I see with Java webapps not getting a lot of interest is that Java is a lot harder to deploy in a shared environment. I think in PHP you can throttle how much server resources each user gets. This is a lot harder to do in Java and a badly programmed app can get out of control pretty quickly, run out of memory, and kill the whole JVM taking out everyone else's webapp. The other problem is that the whole war packaging scheme works against easy end user customization. The J2EE spec is also kind of anti File I/O but that's how most php apps work for configuration etc. J2EE wants you to put all the config in the DB which is a pain or in weird stuff like JNDI or some other technology that only the most advanced java devs understand, let alone end users.
Where Java shines is in the fact that it is a statically typed language. This means that IDEs such as Eclipse can statically analyze the semantics of the code very easily and do advanced refactoring, type checking, etc. If you're coding in vi you'll probably be more productive in ruby or php. Static typing also makes things a lot easier when you have to maintain a very large system with many developers. If you change an interface and there are 500 classes that reference that interface you know everywhere in the whole system that you have to fix the call. In a non statically typed language you have to hope that your automated tests have perfect code coverage over all these 500 classes and then run through your tests over and over again until you fixed every call. Static typing also helps one throw classes out which is really important on a large project that is maintained over several years. When you throw a class out, or remove a method in java the ide will quickly tell you if it's referenced somewhere. I've literally been able to throw out hundreds of classes worth of old code in our code base that I would be scared to death to do in a non statically typed language.
20 years from now the re-runs are going to look really weird. If they started doing this 20 years ago we'd probably be watching Scooby Doo episodes where Shaggy mentions how comfortable his Dead 70s Brand bell bottoms are. Then again, with modern technology they might start editing old tv shows inserting new scenes to do product placement or just dubbing over them with new brand names.
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Heim came up with these predictions more than 20 years ago and up until recently there was mutch doubt whether Neutrinos even had mass...
n d_forces
...
...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heim_theory#Matter_a
There are some empirical predictions of Heim theory which can in principle be experimentally verified, but this has not been achieved to date. These include
* Predictions for the masses of neutrinos, and
The mass for the neutron has been predicted by the formula a decade before experimental data existed.
Have any onf you people visted Azul's website? This is not an Intel compatible machine.
It is going to only run a Java Virtual Machine so anything written in Java will run on it.
Windows will not run on it. I took some operating system courses in college and the intel
architecture is a huge mess of hideousness of backwards compatibility that luckily only operating system implementers have to deal with. By only running Java these guys get to sidestep the whole mess and focus
on massively optimizing the hardware architecture for running java code.
http://www.azulsystems.com/products/nap.html
The best reason of all to experiment on mice though is to get back at them for the spreading (via fleas) the 13th century Black Death plague that led to over a 3rd of Europe's population dying! Just think of the irony! They tried to eliminate us by spreading disease and we are using them for medical research!
You thought that now they're turning 60 their influence is starting to wane.... WELL YOU'RE WRONG! Your body parts are their new status symbols! Nothing will prepare you for the horror, the mayhem and the fright of :
Invasion of the Body Snatchers II: Revenge and Resurrection of the Aging Baby Boomers
(Sountrack by the Greatful Dead)
do{
programmer = hireprogrammer();
software= programmer.work();
costs+= programmer.pay();
costs+= software.market();
revenue=software.sell();
} while (revenue > costs)
The above function says that if your costs of marketing and paying programmers is less than the
amount of money you make from selling the software than you'll always keep hiring programmers.
Since there are tons and tons of possible profitable applications to make there will almost
always be more work than there are programmers whether they are payed a lot or a little. The
cheaper programmers are more likely to get hired first but, from a business standpoint, after
all the cheap programmers are hired it will still make sense to employ the more expensive ones.
**/
Couldn't you setup another virus that modifies the DNA, thus, undoing or sabotaging the HIV dna that gets into the cells?
I always will pay more than a non-metered service than a complexly metered service that would cost less. That's because it's just an extra set of variables that needs to be added to be considered with every usage of the system and that takes money and time. I would never get metered cell phone data services. I would happily pay $20/month for unmetered, as a I do with my sidekick. Adding service level restrictions would make it more ridiculous. In fact I recently rejected a DNS provider's pitch because they wanted to cap the number of unique queries I could do, even though they wanted a considerable monthly fee. I told them that I don't even WANT TO THINK about how many DNS queries people are doing a month and that was the deal breaker.
It seems that everyone thinks that the way to make more money is to play games with your customers. This is the same kind of thing with DRM schemes like Napster to Go, Mail-In Rebates, Credit Card Late fees, etc. All of this adds a whole new dimension of wasted economic activity because the company has to calculate and bill for the usage using ridiculously complicated software and the customer has to take all these crazy rules into account when using the product. You may hate Walmart but one of the reasons it has been so successful is it reduces the complexity of retail transactions. There are no sales. There are no rebates, gimmicks, etc. You don't have to jump through hoops, apply for a walmart rewards card or do anything to get the best deal. Never underestimate the power of simplicity.
The fact is, pretty much nobody knows what the hell Heim theory predicts.
Actually, Heim Theory predicts that if you get a really big magnet of 20 tesla or so and spin it real fast you'll negate gravity to some extent over a specific area. This is an actual testable hypothesis. This is the hypothesis outlined in the AAIA award winning paper. So far string theory has no testable hypothesis. All that needs to happen is for somebody which such equipment to test out the theory. Which means a large gov lab or something like that.
String Theory: No experimentally testable hypothesis
Heim Theory: Experimentally Testable Hypothesis
Ok which one is more scientific and which one is just a bunch of math?
The real problem I have with this position is that the whole political spectrum concept is the wrong paradigm for approaching the problem of dysfunctional approaches to the over politicization of education. First, the political spectrum concept has flaws, as has been widely known for some time, thanks to the Nolan Chart and other alternative political spectrums.
Secondly, what ever happened to seeking the truth? That's the real problem with university political education. For instance, there is not much research being done at universities, who are instead just focused on shilling for and indoctrinating people toward their side. In the media, nobody focuses on what to do and how and why to do it -- instead the focus is all on ad hominem attacks against the other side. If the left vs right war wasn't front and center, all day, every day, people might be studying concepts like The Land Value Tax. Which is an interesting approach to taxation that is not really a left vs right or center issue. These things never get much attention in the political dialogue because the academic and media political dialogue has become, well, politicized. Nowadays, the only thing approaching "research" goes on in political think tanks, as their members can escape politicization, or at least already agree with the principles of the think tank's governance.
Don't forget Thomas Malthus and his Malthusian Catastrophe that in the late 18th century began the whole legacy of predictions of an overpopulation/environmental castastrophe leading to diaster. Thankfully, most of these predictions have not come to pass, but they still keep getting made on a regular basis.
Let's do some numbers!
Denmark Energy Statistics
Looks like they are generating 3.1 Gigawatts total. Not bad but not a whole lot. They are adding about 300mw a year. I'll leave out oil from the energy statistics because liquid fuels is a whole nother' ball of yarn that I'll let slide. However, If you look at total natural gas usage up at the top of the spread sheet it's 15 times their wind power. This natural gas could be replaced by electricity for heating so I would say that electricity meets about 5% of their total fuel budget along with other renewables, most notably "Wastes".
The average coal plant produces 600 megawatts of electricity Link. The entire output of an Ovionics Solar Cell assemply plant is enough electricity to produce 30 megawatts a year if all solar cells are used simultaneously, in sunny weather, during the day Link. That means that you have to have 20 years worth of production from that plant to get enough solar cells to equal a coal plant. Wind is a little better with the largest onshore turbines producing 2.5megawatts Link.
Or about 240 needed to reproduce a coal plant, when the wind is blowing. There are about 62 gigawatts of new generating capacity in the works, according to the CS monitor story, for the continental U.S.
But what about solar powered homes? The average home uses 10656 kw/h per year or about 1.21 kw constant load Link. The average aluminum smelting plant uses 300mw of electricity or 250,000 times as much Link. The average chemical plant uses 12mw constant load or almost 1000x as much Link. There are lots of similar industrial users. <sarcasm> Of course, who needs all those plants anyway? Doesn't produce anything usefull? All just pollution right? </sarcasm>
Sure there's plenty of little stuff we can do about the energy problems of the world but I think the problem is far far bigger than most people imagine. So basically given the above, environmentalists really have no solution to the world's energy problem except de-industrialization and I really doubt we are going to go along with that much less China, India, Russia, or Brazil. There you go, with a little math I spoiled the whole alternative energy debate. You have read the last chapter of the book on Global warming: There is no solution (except nuclear!). If you have some alternative examples show me and please make sure they include actual figures in megawatts. Not things like "wind energy potential" but instead, how long it would take to build, how much money, how much energy would be provided, etc. BTW, I'm not saying that some technological revolution isn't going to save us but please, let's get some numbers into the discussion!
This guy doesn't realize that most slashdotters would not be up to this. Most have never even left their parent's basement...
I was reading about the Placebo effect and though, all those vegans might be on to something.
I had a boss who was into the same thing. I went and implemented version control and bug tracking anyway going around his orders. In my humble opinion, I think the main reason he was against this was that he was paranoid about something, I have no idea what, and because of this paranoia he had made up his mind that he didn't want any kind of paper trail as to development activities.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own _correspondent/2255991.stm
The Dutch, who settled the previously uninhabited island in the early 17th century, referred to the dodo as the walgvogel, or "ghastly bird."
This was apparently because, no matter which way you cooked it, its flesh was as tough as old boots. However, that didn't stop the colonisers hunting the poor dodo down.
Sounds like if they could clone it, dodos would make good domesticated animals. The eggs and bird seem tasty and docile enough.
Yeah that was way offtopic. Too much coffee today :/. Oddly enough Yonah is also the name of a Jewish tora book read during Yum Kippur, a mountain, etc. Come to think of it, any pronounceable word with fewer than 6 letters is probably in use somewhere for something. Branding is hard!
The name Yonah reminds me of "Yoni" which means something else entirely
Not safe for work link describing said "Yoni"
Ruby is not statically typed, which means that if you have a very large program and you change an API in that program you have to go and find all the instances of calls to that API in your program yourself, either through running automated tests or seeing the broken calls in the debug log of your application. Compiled langauges on the other hand such as Java,C,C++,C# have static calling conventions which means that when you break an api the compiler will point out all the broken calls to you and not let you run your program till you fix them all. This tends to make statically typed languages more maintainable. If you need to break out of static calling conventions you can in Java at least using introspection and bytecode enhancement but this is usually only done in well defined scenarios inside of application frameworks instead of for every class like in Ruby.
Can you imagine all the bizarre and ugly animated racing decals that they are going to start putting on their cars? Now you're going to not only have to plug your ears to keep their thundering bass speakers from making you go deaf, but you'll also have to invest in a pair of sunglasses to protect your eyes from the blinding animated displays.
Americans for some reason have a weird bias against efficiency; I always hear these kinds of objections when an idea to make something more energy efficient comes up. It's almost like we're afraid of it.
I know exactly what you are talking about. I have spent a lot of time arguing energy technology and efficiency on peak oil message boards and it kind of goes like this:
Unabomber: Oh goody, peak oil is going to happen we're all going back to live on subsistance farms and industrial society and all those idiots with SUVs will be punished!
Me: Hey, but what about technology X?
Unabomber: Look at the EROEI (Energy Returned on Energy Invested). To get all the steel out of the ground to build that would cause huge amounts of global warming.
Me: Ok, but it's something right? It will make life better right and the investment will eventually pay off?
Unabomber: Ha Ha! Nothing can stop the doom of technological society. Your puny inventions are no use!
Me: But I kinda like technological society.
Unabomber: Nature must punish you for your hubris to rise above the other animals. Repent and move back to an organic farm while there is still time!!!
Me: Well I'm going to ignore you and build technology X anyway.
Unabomber: But you'll cause global warming and keep perpetuating your unsustainable way of life.
Me: Better than going back to the stone age.
While both .NET and Java are free, the application servers they run on are not. For ASP.NET, IIS is the application server. For Java/J2EE, it could be Web Sphere or a variety of others. In pretty much every case a Windows license will be a lot cheaper than the license for the J2EE app server... especially Web Sphere.
Ok that does it you are shill. Jboss? Jetty? Tomcat? And you can run those all on Linux on the latest well supported JDK 1.5 just fine for $0.
Having contributed to a Java open source webapp, the main problem I see with Java webapps not getting a lot of interest is that Java is a lot harder to deploy in a shared environment. I think in PHP you can throttle how much server resources each user gets. This is a lot harder to do in Java and a badly programmed app can get out of control pretty quickly, run out of memory, and kill the whole JVM taking out everyone else's webapp. The other problem is that the whole war packaging scheme works against easy end user customization. The J2EE spec is also kind of anti File I/O but that's how most php apps work for configuration etc. J2EE wants you to put all the config in the DB which is a pain or in weird stuff like JNDI or some other technology that only the most advanced java devs understand, let alone end users.
Where Java shines is in the fact that it is a statically typed language. This means that IDEs such as Eclipse can statically analyze the semantics of the code very easily and do advanced refactoring, type checking, etc. If you're coding in vi you'll probably be more productive in ruby or php. Static typing also makes things a lot easier when you have to maintain a very large system with many developers. If you change an interface and there are 500 classes that reference that interface you know everywhere in the whole system that you have to fix the call. In a non statically typed language you have to hope that your automated tests have perfect code coverage over all these 500 classes and then run through your tests over and over again until you fixed every call. Static typing also helps one throw classes out which is really important on a large project that is maintained over several years. When you throw a class out, or remove a method in java the ide will quickly tell you if it's referenced somewhere. I've literally been able to throw out hundreds of classes worth of old code in our code base that I would be scared to death to do in a non statically typed language.
20 years from now the re-runs are going to look really weird. If they started doing this 20 years ago we'd probably be watching Scooby Doo episodes where Shaggy mentions how comfortable his Dead 70s Brand bell bottoms are. Then again, with modern technology they might start editing old tv shows inserting new scenes to do product placement or just dubbing over them with new brand names.