..that you would say that on the same day I discovered this. Coincidence? I think not (but then again as part of the Matrix, I can't think "about" it in any rational sense.)
My guess is that the Universe could be classified as all three, at different times. I seriously doubt, however, that we will be able to make measurements far apart enough in time (since we live so pitifully short, relatively) to gain an accurate measure (think maxum? (vs quantum) mechanics).
they said that the constant is very close to 1, I didn't read anybody saying, "All our data show us that the answer is EXACTLY 1." Anything that is the slightest bit off 1 in either direction will eventually unbalance the whole thing (think chaos theory). I take this data to mean that the universe isn't "in" anything, it just is. There are no external forces actuing upon it.
eventually enough black holes get together and reverse the trend (think sine wave) and everything starts to come back together. Eventually everything compresses back into the size of that grapefruit of yore and we bang again (notice the "eventually"s, this takes a long time). I think the "dark(anti?) matter" is part of the equation, and there are probably other parts we don't have a grasp on yet, but a continuing pattern of death and rebirth seems to fit with pretty much everything else in the universe.
I don't see this NYT article as discrediting my theory, we merely haven't crested the hill yet and it looks like it goes up forever from our limited perspective.
I'd like to see/. to a follow-up with stories like these. Maybe after the IPO you guys can hire some "researchers" to help with the street cred.
An interesting discovery but not spectacular. Straight lines go Straight. The Universe is in Balance. Any new age guru could tell you the same, without dem fancy 'puters.
flat in this sense just means not curved. It has nothing to do with edges. It just means that two straight lines parallel to each other with NEVER intersect, extended throughout time and space. Basically the Universe isn't in a snow-globe, it just is.
yup, just use the 'Net to save time. Buying plane tickets, lotso' shopping, etc, all at your convenience. It's not a matter of how much you can cram into 5 days, but how much time you can save in a year. Or how you can turn an obscure geek site into $12mil in a coupla' years...
silly article, seems to have been written about 2 years ago. When the Internat HADN'T changed the world. It certainly hasn't changed the author's.
Is there any stored databse of say accurate curve fitting analysis to determine the movements of the market?
Honesty? Reliability? Rationality? All the qualities of the things that drive the market, people. Trying to model worldwide (real-time) human behaviour is pointless. Although, in true Douglas Adams fashion, I hear a potted plant is able to do it.
Email and other web-based communication techniques that rely on the written word rather than the spoken word can only communicate a minority of the contextual information that a human being typically expects to receive during a conversation.
that's why we need to be able to post voice-mp3's to/.
There is one thing missing - the office water cooler. Where's the joy in reading a goofy Mel Lastman quote if you can't share it?
Mel who?, I wanna talk about nanites and software.
5 days online and he a found a gay chat? this story was silly.
If I (or many of you) were to "concentrate" on what I did over a 5 day period online, it would have to be condensed down from epic book proportions. From massive pitched battles to deep philosophical discussions, huge (relatively) cash movements, and other strange things, and that's without even paying attention or even focusing on the online world, that's just "normal".
What he should have done is just started exploring at random. That always leads to strange things. 5 days of that could drive drive Wonko the Sane crazy.
Not using a phone? Hullo, voice over IP, that counts as "using" the 'Net, right? The author should be locked in a box for 5 days just for this story, then he can write about THAT.
from the front page would be a nice addition also. It seems quite often that some good links are provided in the discussion but (even with moderation) that requires some diggin'. Short form: More film and audio links from the front page. Let's *really* smash some servers.:-)
While using the media, keeping them apart is no problem. But differentiating them in the after, while trying to deteremine meme origin, can prove difficult (for me too, at least)
that's the problem with cable, and more will see it as they all get on. It's SHARED with everyone in your local exchange. If everybody is on as much as you then you all get 56k speeks. You have to wade through local traffic and then big-pipe traffic, that's why I chose DSL, fast & steady (and (roughly) twice the upstream)
from the above link: However, nothing short of a full "Open Source" implementation will make the Linux community happy. So the real challenge is to create a Open Source "minimal NDS" to seed the market. Once NDS is in the door, then Novell can leverage and up-sell the ZEN and Internet product lines.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Thanks for keeping up with the payments.
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so does God (roughly, and in different tenses).
are you the same guy who keeps getting hot grits poured down his trousers? You just outed yourself as a prankster.
Have a nice day, meept!!
..that you would say that on the same day I discovered this. Coincidence? I think not (but then again as part of the Matrix, I can't think "about" it in any rational sense.)
My guess is that the Universe could be classified as all three, at different times. I seriously doubt, however, that we will be able to make measurements far apart enough in time (since we live so pitifully short, relatively) to gain an accurate measure (think maxum? (vs quantum) mechanics).
no, I think this says, "By the time you could see the horizon a new one will exist beyond it."
You can't get outside the Universe. Doing so causes a core dump.
...take this discussion HERE!!!.
they said that the constant is very close to 1, I didn't read anybody saying, "All our data show us that the answer is EXACTLY 1." Anything that is the slightest bit off 1 in either direction will eventually unbalance the whole thing (think chaos theory). I take this data to mean that the universe isn't "in" anything, it just is. There are no external forces actuing upon it.
eventually enough black holes get together and reverse the trend (think sine wave) and everything starts to come back together. Eventually everything compresses back into the size of that grapefruit of yore and we bang again (notice the "eventually"s, this takes a long time). I think the "dark(anti?) matter" is part of the equation, and there are probably other parts we don't have a grasp on yet, but a continuing pattern of death and rebirth seems to fit with pretty much everything else in the universe.
I don't see this NYT article as discrediting my theory, we merely haven't crested the hill yet and it looks like it goes up forever from our limited perspective.
my $.02(US) (doing very well vs. the Euro BTW)
I'd like to see /. to a follow-up with stories like these. Maybe after the IPO you guys can hire some "researchers" to help with the street cred.
An interesting discovery but not spectacular. Straight lines go Straight. The Universe is in Balance. Any new age guru could tell you the same, without dem fancy 'puters.
rubber sheet theory may be correct.
It's more like a 3-d dimensional rubber goo theory. All this data shows is that parellel lines won't intersect, EVER.
flat in this sense just means not curved. It has nothing to do with edges. It just means that two straight lines parallel to each other with NEVER intersect, extended throughout time and space. Basically the Universe isn't in a snow-globe, it just is.
a hacker's dream...
getting me back to civilization with bailing wire and duct tape.
I anyone has fixed a malfunctioning computer solely with Duct Tape, please raise your hand (and ignore curious stares).
*raises hand*
is this guy's euphemism for masturbation. He's been doing it a lot lately....
thats what I've chosen. I proudly call myself geek, and have seen the definition changing. Long live a mutating non-speficic language!
yup, just use the 'Net to save time. Buying plane tickets, lotso' shopping, etc, all at your convenience. It's not a matter of how much you can cram into 5 days, but how much time you can save in a year. Or how you can turn an obscure geek site into $12mil in a coupla' years...
silly article, seems to have been written about 2 years ago. When the Internat HADN'T changed the world. It certainly hasn't changed the author's.
Is there any stored databse of say accurate curve fitting analysis to determine the movements of the market?
Honesty? Reliability? Rationality? All the qualities of the things that drive the market, people. Trying to model worldwide (real-time) human behaviour is pointless. Although, in true Douglas Adams fashion, I hear a potted plant is able to do it.
Email and other web-based communication techniques that rely on the written word rather than the spoken word can only communicate a minority of the contextual information that a human being typically expects to receive during a conversation.
/.
that's why we need to be able to post voice-mp3's to
There is one thing missing - the office water cooler. Where's the joy in reading a goofy Mel Lastman quote if you can't share it?
Mel who?, I wanna talk about nanites and software.
5 days online and he a found a gay chat? this story was silly.
If I (or many of you) were to "concentrate" on what I did over a 5 day period online, it would have to be condensed down from epic book proportions. From massive pitched battles to deep philosophical discussions, huge (relatively) cash movements, and other strange things, and that's without even paying attention or even focusing on the online world, that's just "normal".
What he should have done is just started exploring at random. That always leads to strange things. 5 days of that could drive drive Wonko the Sane crazy.
Not using a phone? Hullo, voice over IP, that counts as "using" the 'Net, right? The author should be locked in a box for 5 days just for this story, then he can write about THAT.
from the front page would be a nice addition also. It seems quite often that some good links are provided in the discussion but (even with moderation) that requires some diggin'. Short form: More film and audio links from the front page. Let's *really* smash some servers. :-)
While using the media, keeping them apart is no problem. But differentiating them in the after, while trying to deteremine meme origin, can prove difficult (for me too, at least)
that's the problem with cable, and more will see it as they all get on. It's SHARED with everyone in your local exchange. If everybody is on as much as you then you all get 56k speeks. You have to wade through local traffic and then big-pipe traffic, that's why I chose DSL, fast & steady (and (roughly) twice the upstream)
this is well beyond the first step.
from the above link:
However, nothing short of a full "Open Source" implementation will make the Linux
community happy. So the real challenge is to create a Open Source "minimal NDS" to seed the market. Once NDS is in the door, then Novell can leverage and up-sell the ZEN and Internet product lines.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Thanks for keeping up with the payments.
No,no,no he's buying 1000 $1.99 CDs, spraypainting LinuxOne on them, shipping 'em off to China (insured by UPS (wink,wink)), and going for an IPO.
Moderators? New York Times?
Fraud?!