So this means if a planet orbits a sun in any other plane than the one that happens to line up directly with us, it wont spot anything? Wouldn't that be...most of space?
Yes. This method will only spot a tiny minority of the planets it could potentially spot if the angles were different. The galaxy would have to contain many millions of stars for this to be at all useful. But, as it happens...;)
That is the oracle paradox : there are many cases where you can't make a correct prediction that accounts for your prediction's effects.
That is exactly why in Asimov series there is the second foundation.
Sorta, but not really. Seldon is careful to spoon-feed out small bits of information at times, usually after the events have occurred, so the prediction isn't known until it's already happened. In those very few cases where he does reveal info about the future before it happens, it's only after he's already calculated what the results of the disclosure will be. The real reason for the Second Foundation is not the oracle paradox, it's the general fact that psycho-history isn't perfect, it's about probabilities, and as things do actually occur, people need to adjust things to account for the differences that would otherwise accumulate. But when it comes to making correct predictions of the effects of your predictions, Seldon not only does this, but uses this ability to further his aims.
Actually, from the Slashdot front page you can tell everything you need to know about the differences between the article and the summary: It was posted by kdawson, and therefore the differences are fundamental in nature.
Has it ever been explained why kdawson posts usually have titles that are flat-out contradicted by the article in question? Perhaps another study is in order...
The life expectancy of nearly 64 sounds a bit dubious to me, given their perpetual food crises...
It should be noted that caloric restriction is a known method for extending lifespan, as long as it doesn't reach critical levels or leave out critical vitamins and such for extended periods, which would of course cause chronic malnutrition. There's a big difference between frequently running out of food vs. never having any.
The signature of dark matter destroying protons “can be easily tested by the even bigger proposed underground detectors” planned to be built somewhere in Europe.
Should anyone interested in science just move to Europe now? Seems to be the place in the world where people actually care about science these days.
Chips are not fucking smart, cards are not fucking smart, materials are not fucking smart, a person may or may not be smart, an animal like a dog might be smart, inanimate objects are not smart or intelligent or clever or fucking astute!
Generalizing: Things with decision making capabilities may be smart. Things without, cannot.
Furthermore, smart is relative. There can be smart dogs, but they're smart compared to your average pooch. They're really not very bright by human standards, but nonetheless, are smart dogs.
Now, what do you call an item with an electronic device capable of reacting to information in a way that most items of the same class cannot?
Someone who is fucking astute can see the legitimate use for the phrase "smart " in such circumstances.
It does try to address a legitimate problem, but I think people will get them with good intentions and then a month or two later end up bypassing the alerts.
Nothing wrong with that. The point is to let you know how close to the limit you are, not to, in any way whatsoever, impede you from spending your money. Some people blow by their limit without even noticing. The only purpose of the wallet is to provide information. If you want to spend your money, that's fine, just make it a fully informed decision.
... It's also not as though FedEx might want to avoid the bad publicity of misplacing radioactive rods.
Not enough to ensure it doesn't happen, since it just did. But please, don't let any actual facts contaminate your theory about the effectiveness of market-based solutions.
I don't think Israeli solutions will scale. It's a fine idea to look at what they do and mine it for good ideas, but you can't argue that what they do will necessarily work for anyone else just because it works for them. It may not be effective, or it may simply not be practical, when applied elsewhere.
Equality between men and women, and for that matter, between all people, is a fundamental principle of communist ideology. Indeed, although it is never achieved in practice, egalitarianism could be considering the single most fundamental principle of it -- it's the central principle that justifies everything else in communism.
While the Milky Way's black hole lacks such a jet - which is powered by matter falling inside the black hole, scientists believe it may have had one millions of years ago.
I thought that a black hole was a matter-&-light-gobbling monster that never stopped. What does the quote from the article mean? How does a black hole cease to exist? What happens to it?
You misread. What it says we may have had one million years ago that we don't have now is "such a jet". We still have the black hole, but the jets are gone (if they were there, which frankly seems likely to me given the lingering bubbles, but IANAPA [I Am Not A Professional Astronomer]).
Eh, actually it's pretty much nothing like that. Unless you're kookie enough to think that the amount of energy involved in the Big Bang was infinite. If it was a finite amount, then talking about something being a fraction of that is a perfectly reasonable thing to do, and the answer is far, far short of infinity, no matter how big it is.
I believe you have that reversed. I've met plenty of religious fundamentalists who weren't anti-science loons... Can't say I've met / heard of any anti-science loons who are not religious fundamentalists.
Really? I've known a couple good ones, and met quite a few more. You just don't hang out with the right lunatics.;)
If the 6000 years ago bit is true, we can just continue working on the old universe idea and since God made it look like it old experiment will keep matching theory. God can just giggle at us as his brilliantly faked universe tricks us into eternal damnation as we follow the evidence.
Thus casting God in the role of Descartes evil demon. Oh, the fun you can have with that idea...
Interestingly enough, there was a branch of early Christianity which insisted that the Creator was in fact evil, and Jesus was here to save us from him.
You know, I've always loved Burt Rutan, from the moment I first saw a Beechcraft Starship, and I still think he's the best and most brilliant designer around... but this guy looks like he has more fun.:)
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So this means if a planet orbits a sun in any other plane than the one that happens to line up directly with us, it wont spot anything? Wouldn't that be...most of space?
Yes. This method will only spot a tiny minority of the planets it could potentially spot if the angles were different. The galaxy would have to contain many millions of stars for this to be at all useful. But, as it happens... ;)
...but not a performance or security related issue.
o.O
You're obviously not qualified to work on any projects where security is an issue.
That is the oracle paradox : there are many cases where you can't make a correct prediction that accounts for your prediction's effects. That is exactly why in Asimov series there is the second foundation.
Sorta, but not really. Seldon is careful to spoon-feed out small bits of information at times, usually after the events have occurred, so the prediction isn't known until it's already happened. In those very few cases where he does reveal info about the future before it happens, it's only after he's already calculated what the results of the disclosure will be. The real reason for the Second Foundation is not the oracle paradox, it's the general fact that psycho-history isn't perfect, it's about probabilities, and as things do actually occur, people need to adjust things to account for the differences that would otherwise accumulate. But when it comes to making correct predictions of the effects of your predictions, Seldon not only does this, but uses this ability to further his aims.
To be fair, three out of seven GSLV launches have failed. No US space program has that failure rate, even if you don't exclude the mishaps.
Isn't one of the problems with railguns that sometimes the projectile will weld itself to the rail?
Only at sufficient speeds/friction. There's no reason a railgun-based aircraft launcher would be more prone to this problem than a steam-based one.
What happens if that occurs with a jet launcher on the rail, and a plane hooked to that?
Same thing that happens now if the thing gets stuck.
Isn't the simplest idea a cheap hdmi-out computer with a remote keyboard and scroll wheel?
Geek: Here's a simple idea. ...
Consumer: HDwha? [Consumer wanders off cross-eyed.]
[Consumer seen a half hour later happily leaving the Apple store with an Apple TV in hand.]
Actually, from the Slashdot front page you can tell everything you need to know about the differences between the article and the summary: It was posted by kdawson, and therefore the differences are fundamental in nature.
Has it ever been explained why kdawson posts usually have titles that are flat-out contradicted by the article in question? Perhaps another study is in order...
The life expectancy of nearly 64 sounds a bit dubious to me, given their perpetual food crises...
It should be noted that caloric restriction is a known method for extending lifespan, as long as it doesn't reach critical levels or leave out critical vitamins and such for extended periods, which would of course cause chronic malnutrition. There's a big difference between frequently running out of food vs. never having any.
From TFA:
The signature of dark matter destroying protons “can be easily tested by the even bigger proposed underground detectors” planned to be built somewhere in Europe.
Should anyone interested in science just move to Europe now? Seems to be the place in the world where people actually care about science these days.
The Golden Wallet would shrink as the Federal Reserve Notes in your bank account lose value.
Spot price of gold right now ... $1408.50 / oz. Up $22.60 in the first few hours of trading today.
How does that compare to the price of wheat, or some other commodity that more accurately reflects the value of a dollar?
...the phrase "smart " in such circumstances.
And the comment system ate my "<item>" in "smart <item>", because it is not smart. :p
Chips are not fucking smart, cards are not fucking smart, materials are not fucking smart, a person may or may not be smart, an animal like a dog might be smart, inanimate objects are not smart or intelligent or clever or fucking astute!
Generalizing: Things with decision making capabilities may be smart. Things without, cannot.
Furthermore, smart is relative. There can be smart dogs, but they're smart compared to your average pooch. They're really not very bright by human standards, but nonetheless, are smart dogs.
Now, what do you call an item with an electronic device capable of reacting to information in a way that most items of the same class cannot?
Someone who is fucking astute can see the legitimate use for the phrase "smart " in such circumstances.
It does try to address a legitimate problem, but I think people will get them with good intentions and then a month or two later end up bypassing the alerts.
Nothing wrong with that. The point is to let you know how close to the limit you are, not to, in any way whatsoever, impede you from spending your money. Some people blow by their limit without even noticing. The only purpose of the wallet is to provide information. If you want to spend your money, that's fine, just make it a fully informed decision.
... It's also not as though FedEx might want to avoid the bad publicity of misplacing radioactive rods.
Not enough to ensure it doesn't happen, since it just did. But please, don't let any actual facts contaminate your theory about the effectiveness of market-based solutions.
First, implement it, and show that it works in practice.
Later, standardize the proven best practices.
Google, ur doin' it rite! :D
I don't think Israeli solutions will scale. It's a fine idea to look at what they do and mine it for good ideas, but you can't argue that what they do will necessarily work for anyone else just because it works for them. It may not be effective, or it may simply not be practical, when applied elsewhere.
And USSR let women join the army?
Equality between men and women, and for that matter, between all people, is a fundamental principle of communist ideology. Indeed, although it is never achieved in practice, egalitarianism could be considering the single most fundamental principle of it -- it's the central principle that justifies everything else in communism.
from the article:
I thought that a black hole was a matter-&-light-gobbling monster that never stopped. What does the quote from the article mean? How does a black hole cease to exist? What happens to it?
You misread. What it says we may have had one million years ago that we don't have now is "such a jet". We still have the black hole, but the jets are gone (if they were there, which frankly seems likely to me given the lingering bubbles, but IANAPA [I Am Not A Professional Astronomer]).
Don't be silly, nothing in DC can over power the stench of congress.
The Pentagon isn't in DC. :p
What next, will the US demonstrate that cars can be made with tail fins?
Considering the state of Detroit today, people may be wondering whether we still have the capability...
Now show us a real big-bang so the creationists are silenced
Oh, that's easy. Look around you...
It's like asking what is 1/2 of infinity?
Eh, actually it's pretty much nothing like that. Unless you're kookie enough to think that the amount of energy involved in the Big Bang was infinite. If it was a finite amount, then talking about something being a fraction of that is a perfectly reasonable thing to do, and the answer is far, far short of infinity, no matter how big it is.
I believe you have that reversed. I've met plenty of religious fundamentalists who weren't anti-science loons... Can't say I've met / heard of any anti-science loons who are not religious fundamentalists.
Really? I've known a couple good ones, and met quite a few more. You just don't hang out with the right lunatics. ;)
If the 6000 years ago bit is true, we can just continue working on the old universe idea and since God made it look like it old experiment will keep matching theory. God can just giggle at us as his brilliantly faked universe tricks us into eternal damnation as we follow the evidence.
Thus casting God in the role of Descartes evil demon. Oh, the fun you can have with that idea...
Interestingly enough, there was a branch of early Christianity which insisted that the Creator was in fact evil, and Jesus was here to save us from him.
You know, I've always loved Burt Rutan, from the moment I first saw a Beechcraft Starship, and I still think he's the best and most brilliant designer around... but this guy looks like he has more fun. :)