I am still fairly young (or rather, not yet too old) and am just getting to the stage were student debt is paid off, job is steady, and I have (for the first time in my life) a significant amount of disposable income. I have never paid for cable. None of my friends or colleagues has ever paid for cable. But every single one of us gladly pays for at least one, if not multiple, streaming / on demand services. Although we certainly consume a lot of media on phones and tablets, every single one of us still has a TV for "regular" watching. Chromecast, Amazon Fire, Apple TV are all popular. In fact, a popular point of discussion is the best way to stream on-demand services to a dumb TV. Hell, my main TV is hooked up to a PC tower for all of my streaming and gaming needs (BTW, this is the only PC tower in my house -- yet another sign of the times). So the impression that I get is that, at least for my cohort, traditional TV hardware is not going away.
Antimatter isn't any less real than ordinary matter, it just has a really stupid name. And dark matter is just stuff that we have to observe indirectly (through its gravitational effects) since it doesn't seem to interact with the EM field.
Negative kinetic energy happens all the time in quantum mechanics. That's what tunneling is. In classical physics, the total energy is E=T+V, where T is the kinetic energy and V is the potential energy. In tunneling, a particle can pass through a "barrier" where V>E, so that the kinetic energy E-V is negative.
I still think the claims in the article are ridiculous though.
If you want to be that nitpicky, then it's "the first part of the world war". If you understand anything at all about the cause of "World War II", then you know that it really isn't a separate war but merely the second phase of the first.
The age of the solar system is around 4.5 billion years. If the earth took less time to form, that would make it older, not younger (if you say it's "birth" is its formation).
I think it's time to link to talkorigins.org in my sig.
Way back when I was first learning DirectDraw (shudder), I wrote a program to generate pixel colors based on x, y, and time (ticks) values. I played with trig functions a little bit, trying to generate some plasma effects. Eventually I got bored of that and tried some operations using the bitwise operators and, amazingly, I got it to generate the Sierpinski triangle using something like 2 or 3 bitwise ands per pixel. I say amazingly because all I know about Sierpinski triangles is the name, so I generated it completely by accident. Needless to say, I was very surprised the first time I saw it.
Actually, it's a near word-for-word parody of about 10% of the posts to any story dealing with biology and evolution. Check out those stories if you don't believe me:)
This is obviously from Satan because it clearly violates the Newton's first law of thermodynamics. Neutrinos are only a theory. Laws beat theories, so Our Lord Saviour Jesus H Christ defeats Satan yet again. You are all going to hell.
It's pretty clear that the ancestors of land animals came from water, the ultimate origin of those water-dwelling creatures is unknown. It was previously thought that the very first organisms came to life in the atmosphere, and that's what's being challenged by this theory.
That doesn't answer my question or the article's question, and either way I knew that already. I siad I know nothing about hardcore physics (first moments after Big Bang and all that), not that I don't know ANY physics. Just to help you out, I asked two questions:
1 - how long does it take for the fusion to produce large amounts of heavier elements? seconds? years? millions of years? billions of years? 2 - do we have any possible explanations for having extremes but no in-between level of heavy elements?
Why have no stars been found between 1/10,000 and 1/200,000 of the Sun's metal abundance?
Since I know next to nothing about hardcore physics, I have to ask: how long do we think it took for "mostly hydrogen, some helium, and a little lithium" to be converted into all of the naturally occuring elements of today? Is there any possible known explanation for the question asked in the article?
Actually, it's very likely that the unicorn myth comes from animals like the white oryx, which are similar to horses and appear to have only one horn when viewed from the side. I'm no expert, though, so flame away.
Sorry, but you seem to be confusing two completely different business models. Whereas Sony's is/was "sell console below cost and make it up in games", Microsoft decided to omit that last part in an attempt to cut costs when implementing this business model.
Except in this case, the C in RFC stands for criminals. "Hmm, you say the protocol is exactly what you reverse engineered it to be? Come with me, you terrorist hacker!"
There seems to be an assumption that all audiophiles are just zealots who are "faking it". However, any serious musician has ears that are trained well enough to recognize notes by ear, and many have trained their ears so well that they can tell the model and make of an instrument from nothing but the sound it produces. These sorts of audiophiles are most common in classical/orchestral music, and they have good reason to be audiophiles. Someone who buys a million dollar violin has good reason to buy a million dollar viloin.
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I am still fairly young (or rather, not yet too old) and am just getting to the stage were student debt is paid off, job is steady, and I have (for the first time in my life) a significant amount of disposable income. I have never paid for cable. None of my friends or colleagues has ever paid for cable. But every single one of us gladly pays for at least one, if not multiple, streaming / on demand services. Although we certainly consume a lot of media on phones and tablets, every single one of us still has a TV for "regular" watching. Chromecast, Amazon Fire, Apple TV are all popular. In fact, a popular point of discussion is the best way to stream on-demand services to a dumb TV. Hell, my main TV is hooked up to a PC tower for all of my streaming and gaming needs (BTW, this is the only PC tower in my house -- yet another sign of the times). So the impression that I get is that, at least for my cohort, traditional TV hardware is not going away.
Antimatter isn't any less real than ordinary matter, it just has a really stupid name. And dark matter is just stuff that we have to observe indirectly (through its gravitational effects) since it doesn't seem to interact with the EM field.
Negative kinetic energy happens all the time in quantum mechanics. That's what tunneling is. In classical physics, the total energy is E=T+V, where T is the kinetic energy and V is the potential energy. In tunneling, a particle can pass through a "barrier" where V>E, so that the kinetic energy E-V is negative.
I still think the claims in the article are ridiculous though.
Your English lit prof is on crack and should be run over by a car. Everyone knows Shakespeare was really 1000 chimps typing on 1000 typewriters.
Isn't Middle English the language of Chaucer and Old English the language of Beowulf?
If you want to be that nitpicky, then it's "the first part of the world war". If you understand anything at all about the cause of "World War II", then you know that it really isn't a separate war but merely the second phase of the first.
The age of the solar system is around 4.5 billion years. If the earth took less time to form, that would make it older, not younger (if you say it's "birth" is its formation).
I think it's time to link to talkorigins.org in my sig.
I still don't know how I did it :P
Way back when I was first learning DirectDraw (shudder), I wrote a program to generate pixel colors based on x, y, and time (ticks) values. I played with trig functions a little bit, trying to generate some plasma effects. Eventually I got bored of that and tried some operations using the bitwise operators and, amazingly, I got it to generate the Sierpinski triangle using something like 2 or 3 bitwise ands per pixel. I say amazingly because all I know about Sierpinski triangles is the name, so I generated it completely by accident. Needless to say, I was very surprised the first time I saw it.
Actually, it's a near word-for-word parody of about 10% of the posts to any story dealing with biology and evolution. Check out those stories if you don't believe me :)
Have you ever heard a real Christian refer to "Jesus H Christ"? I'm sorry you don't get the joke.
This is obviously from Satan because it clearly violates the Newton's first law of thermodynamics. Neutrinos are only a theory. Laws beat theories, so Our Lord Saviour Jesus H Christ defeats Satan yet again. You are all going to hell.
It's pretty clear that the ancestors of land animals came from water, the ultimate origin of those water-dwelling creatures is unknown. It was previously thought that the very first organisms came to life in the atmosphere, and that's what's being challenged by this theory.
Bwahahahaha, I just realized that the icon says 2 + 2 = 5. Considering how long I've been reading Slashdot, there are two possible conclusions:
1) the icon has changed recently
2) I have very poor observation skills
Shoot me.
I asked my mom about that once and she said it was Satan and Jesus teaming up to test her faith.
That doesn't answer my question or the article's question, and either way I knew that already. I siad I know nothing about hardcore physics (first moments after Big Bang and all that), not that I don't know ANY physics. Just to help you out, I asked two questions:
1 - how long does it take for the fusion to produce large amounts of heavier elements? seconds? years? millions of years? billions of years?
2 - do we have any possible explanations for having extremes but no in-between level of heavy elements?
Actually, it's very likely that the unicorn myth comes from animals like the white oryx, which are similar to horses and appear to have only one horn when viewed from the side. I'm no expert, though, so flame away.
It is my duty as a random Slashdot idiot to ask the following:
isn't BSD dead?
Sorry, but you seem to be confusing two completely different business models. Whereas Sony's is/was "sell console below cost and make it up in games", Microsoft decided to omit that last part in an attempt to cut costs when implementing this business model.
I just hope this doesn't somehow involve space tentacles.
Except in this case, the C in RFC stands for criminals. "Hmm, you say the protocol is exactly what you reverse engineered it to be? Come with me, you terrorist hacker!"
There seems to be an assumption that all audiophiles are just zealots who are "faking it". However, any serious musician has ears that are trained well enough to recognize notes by ear, and many have trained their ears so well that they can tell the model and make of an instrument from nothing but the sound it produces. These sorts of audiophiles are most common in classical/orchestral music, and they have good reason to be audiophiles. Someone who buys a million dollar violin has good reason to buy a million dollar viloin.
Is the shark's name Mary?
Apparently you've never seen C#.