I would be willing to give something like this a try. Janne does bring up a good point though. I would be led to believe that a web site with a poll to show what the hot-topics to be fought for or against would be the best way to decide what to attack head on. Some things would always have to be put to the side, but at the very least their would be some change from the current norm.
A quick donation system of cc, check, pay-pal and what not would be favorable.
Besides, I am not busy at the moment and I am sure that many others here are out of work and looking for something constructive to do.
I have definately spent more on Linux than I ever did on Windows. The whole reason stems from the fact that I enjoy being on my computer more now that it doesn't have to be rebooted in the middle of whatever I'm doing. I have also purchased more games from Lokigames than the total amount of games I ever did from multiple Win games distributors.
give them credit for doing the right thing. Locking everything down, correcting the problem, and notifying the user. The last step for them to pull this off with absolute dignity is to release how it happened and what to do to fix it.
They've already done more than what is the usual for most companies.
Thermodynamics 101:
1. Pressure is released from room temperature Liquid nitrogen.
2. Liquid Nitrogen becomes gas.... Wait, it can't become a gas unless it slurps up enough energy to cover it's latent heat of condensation. Enough energy get's absorbed to cause the surroundings to get cold (-195 Deg C. cold).
5. Cable gets cold and becomes a superconductor. Nitrogen is still piped around at room temperature or, more accurately, underground temperature. The only cold nitrogen was the stuff that was allowed to escape to become a gas.
It is too late and I am too drunk to moderate this as informative, but it is. So if the rest of you could do it for me...I'll owe you a karma point.
I personally think that our concept of "Time" is severely warped. I don't acknowledge it's existance at all, and as such the 'curvature of space-time' is a fallacy. Gravity doesn't 'warp' space-time because space-time doesn't exist. Everything is static, unchanging.
Take for instance the center of our universe, an apparently 3-Dimensional conglomeration of mass forming stars, planets, etc, all exerting a gravitational pull. If you spin a bucket full of water, the water will rise to the sides as it does here on earth. Relatively speaking, if the bucket was held still and the universe spun around it, would the same effect take place? If it does, does the water surface change instantly, or several thousand years later. If it happens instantly, one would have to acknowledge that gravity propagates through 'space-time' at hyper-relativistic speeds.
I agree with you on the nonexistance of "time". I don't believe in time. I conform to it because my other human counterparts force it apon me...and they wont leave my realm of existance no matter how hard I try, for the moment, and they wont accept it as a reason to not make it to meetings. I also agree with your everything is static argument, however, I believe your analogy is a bit off base.
You asked the question about the spinning bucket. The problem I have with your question and also your analogy is that you are looking for a change is the surface of the water. If the water is to change it would be over "time". For a change to happen a state would have to be measured at one point in "time" and then again at a later point in "time" therefore, you have left a gap in your reasoning to not allow an answer to exist.
I dont believe in "time" because "time" is very relative to humans and very human dependent. Being a human I understand the reasoning behind the concept and using the measurement, however, I believe it has caused a problem in many calculations.
I believe the problem exists from the stand point of locking our selves in to one frame of reference. Oh, sure "space" can be argued as a point of reference but "space" can be modified. Human beings are very hard set on the concept of "time" and putting the two concepts together into one reference, "space-time", is what I believe causes the problem. Why? Because "time" exists as a measurement based of what "we", as human beings, believe reality to exist as, a multidimensional polymorphic "entity" (I use entity for lack of being able to thing of the word I actually want to use, I apologize).
"Time" permeates through all of our measurements. Distance = Rate * Time. E=MC^2. All have "time" as part of the calculation.
"Space" does not have this problem. Volume = length * width * height. "Time" is not included as part of the calculation. An object just exists in "space". It doesn't need to have a point in time to exist in that space. In just needs the space.
This is why I don't like the idea of "space-time". In our quest to understand the universe human beings have locked themselves into a concept due to our limited human interaction with the universe, for instance, humans can only hear frequencies from 20Hz to 20KHz. We can only see at max 85fps. The latter is the important one. If we can only interact at a certain rate it skews our perception of what may be happening.
I could talk about this for a long period of "time", ha ha...that's funny, over a beer because it does very much interest me and I enjoy talking about things that can't really be answered right now and there is always someone who knows more that can help you adjust your concept of reality.
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Exactly. And we should also never have sent all those ships over to the New World when there were starving peasants in Europe.
I think all you Americans ought to come back home right now !!
Being mexican I really don't want to go back to mexico. Besides I didn't take a ship over here...the river isn't that wide!
I got a chance to see hardhat linux at work. Was actually a pretty sweet little deal for embedded systems. Easy to setup and configure. If I actually did any serious embedded work I'd at least consider it.
"Guns aren't used for defense purposes in video games "
I thought I was defending the Earth from hostile take over from aliens...not asking them to visit on vacation and then hunt them down on tourist season....hmmm....
Why doesn't Utah have the cachet of Colorado, he wonders. Part of the answer, Albertson believes, are the restrictions placed by lawmakers on alcohol consumption.
He does make a good point, however, you can work around certain things to fit your lifestyle.
I live and work in Colorado Springs and they have a law where you can not purchase alcohol from liquor stores on Sunday ("dry" city on sunday). So I work around it. I purchase everything I need on Saturday. If I'm not to drunk to remember. It is annoying though when I forget and if it ever becomes that big of a hassle I would consider moving and finding another job.
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Don't forget you can send your Windows disks back to Microsoft, if they are still sealed I believe, and get refunded.
Only 25%...come on people we should be doing better than than we can get that puppy up to 50% if only we get together and try. Why do I have this point of you...because I don't care if my kids dont have an ozone layer...I'm cold now!
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Was going for the recursive joke to the recursive joke too much?
oops meant...
You're kind of missing the point of the joke.
Your kind of missing the point of the joke.
on previous versions of windows try "winipconfig" and it's graphical...
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It actually should be "winipcfg". I will let it slide this time
maybe the XP is a new Microsoft standard for hexadecimal.
I know this is way off topic, but where at in colorado? (I'm in CO as well so just curious and this story sounds familiar)
A quick donation system of cc, check, pay-pal and what not would be favorable.
Besides, I am not busy at the moment and I am sure that many others here are out of work and looking for something constructive to do.
.4 frame per second != .4FPS
what does?
I have definately spent more on Linux than I ever did on Windows. The whole reason stems from the fact that I enjoy being on my computer more now that it doesn't have to be rebooted in the middle of whatever I'm doing. I have also purchased more games from Lokigames than the total amount of games I ever did from multiple Win games distributors.
Fine I will be project lead. Just tell me what I have to do.
Great...it'll be another couple of weeks 'til I can come up with something even more creative.
They've already done more than what is the usual for most companies.
That way, you could have perfect orthogonal motion when doing CAD or drawing work. Doing diagonals will take some skill.
I had one of those. It was called an Etch-A-Sketch, but all I could ever make was stairs.
It is too late and I am too drunk to moderate this as informative, but it is. So if the rest of you could do it for me...I'll owe you a karma point.
In the grand scheme of it all....that was some cheap advertising.
Take for instance the center of our universe, an apparently 3-Dimensional conglomeration of mass forming stars, planets, etc, all exerting a gravitational pull. If you spin a bucket full of water, the water will rise to the sides as it does here on earth. Relatively speaking, if the bucket was held still and the universe spun around it, would the same effect take place? If it does, does the water surface change instantly, or several thousand years later. If it happens instantly, one would have to acknowledge that gravity propagates through 'space-time' at hyper-relativistic speeds.
I agree with you on the nonexistance of "time". I don't believe in time. I conform to it because my other human counterparts force it apon me...and they wont leave my realm of existance no matter how hard I try, for the moment, and they wont accept it as a reason to not make it to meetings. I also agree with your everything is static argument, however, I believe your analogy is a bit off base.
You asked the question about the spinning bucket. The problem I have with your question and also your analogy is that you are looking for a change is the surface of the water. If the water is to change it would be over "time". For a change to happen a state would have to be measured at one point in "time" and then again at a later point in "time" therefore, you have left a gap in your reasoning to not allow an answer to exist.
I dont believe in "time" because "time" is very relative to humans and very human dependent. Being a human I understand the reasoning behind the concept and using the measurement, however, I believe it has caused a problem in many calculations.
I believe the problem exists from the stand point of locking our selves in to one frame of reference. Oh, sure "space" can be argued as a point of reference but "space" can be modified. Human beings are very hard set on the concept of "time" and putting the two concepts together into one reference, "space-time", is what I believe causes the problem. Why? Because "time" exists as a measurement based of what "we", as human beings, believe reality to exist as, a multidimensional polymorphic "entity" (I use entity for lack of being able to thing of the word I actually want to use, I apologize).
"Time" permeates through all of our measurements. Distance = Rate * Time. E=MC^2. All have "time" as part of the calculation.
"Space" does not have this problem. Volume = length * width * height. "Time" is not included as part of the calculation. An object just exists in "space". It doesn't need to have a point in time to exist in that space. In just needs the space.
This is why I don't like the idea of "space-time". In our quest to understand the universe human beings have locked themselves into a concept due to our limited human interaction with the universe, for instance, humans can only hear frequencies from 20Hz to 20KHz. We can only see at max 85fps. The latter is the important one. If we can only interact at a certain rate it skews our perception of what may be happening.
I could talk about this for a long period of "time", ha ha...that's funny, over a beer because it does very much interest me and I enjoy talking about things that can't really be answered right now and there is always someone who knows more that can help you adjust your concept of reality.
I think all you Americans ought to come back home right now !!
Being mexican I really don't want to go back to mexico. Besides I didn't take a ship over here...the river isn't that wide!
What are you mad?! Who will save the carrots and imitation crab?!
I got a chance to see hardhat linux at work. Was actually a pretty sweet little deal for embedded systems. Easy to setup and configure. If I actually did any serious embedded work I'd at least consider it.
I thought I was defending the Earth from hostile take over from aliens...not asking them to visit on vacation and then hunt them down on tourist season....hmmm....
He does make a good point, however, you can work around certain things to fit your lifestyle.
I live and work in Colorado Springs and they have a law where you can not purchase alcohol from liquor stores on Sunday ("dry" city on sunday). So I work around it. I purchase everything I need on Saturday. If I'm not to drunk to remember. It is annoying though when I forget and if it ever becomes that big of a hassle I would consider moving and finding another job.
Don't forget you can send your Windows disks back to Microsoft, if they are still sealed I believe, and get refunded.
What really cracks me up is you got modded to "Interesting" instead of "Offtopic". Sure it's interesting and all but it is definately offtopic.
Only 25%...come on people we should be doing better than than we can get that puppy up to 50% if only we get together and try. Why do I have this point of you...because I don't care if my kids dont have an ozone layer...I'm cold now!
This is not flame bait just a small point hidden behind a lot of sarcasm.