As with any red state, being an unlicensed smart person is illegal in North Carolina. If you're smart enough to have an well researched opinion on this subject, you need a license in order to express it.
It wasn't sorta true, it was false in a way that anyone who has taken an undergraduate QM course could see. What he said was absurd, in and of itself. It has nothing to do with interpretation. QM is hard enough for people to understand without introducing false dichotomy between particle and wave.
The fact that you need to drive the dish to track the sun, and convert mechanical energy into electrical makes it less simple that photovoltaic cells. The Stirling engine needs maintenance, the drive motors need maintenance, the continually flexing structure needs maintenance. The efficiency gains over photovoltaic might make it economic. Same with molten salt solar generators. Neither is simpler than connecting two wires for each cell and affixing them to a static surface.
I could imagine devising some sort of aiming device to take the angle of the sun into account to aim each mirror individually, if the device could allow a man to line up the spot without burning his eyes, then it seems that a stationary ship isn't even needed.
Please design and build such a device using materials available at the time. Assuming your soldiers have flat reflective shields, the device would just need to be designed so that the normal to the shield is facing a point exactly between the sun and the ship. Assume the ship is 500 meters away, and the shield is 1 meter across. Your soldier needs to hold the shield steady to 1 part in 1000, or 0.057 degrees (aka 3.4 arcminues). So you'll want the aiming device to be accurate to that amount. Remember, both the sun and the ship are moving, so this can't be a static aiming device. I think meshed brass gears and pivoting mirrors (unsilvered for the one pointing at the sun) are the way to go. No imaging optical allowed. Alignment to the shield is going to be tricky.
Once you've got it built, contact Adam and Jamie, I'm sure they'll let you test it on the show.
There are a ton of Vintage Camera apps in the Market ranging from free to $4.
For video streaming, check VLC Direct. Free, of course. It probably won't stream to AppleTV. But then again who has AppleTV?
Every thing he asked for is on Android, with possibly the exception of streaming Netflix movies (he didn't actually say that, but I'm assuming that's what he meant.) I would guess that is on the way soon. Personally, aside from NFL Sunday Ticket, I haven't had much use for viewing video on my phone.
Go to your contact list. Open the menu. Select "Display Options". Select the "Sort List By" drop-down and select last name.
In other words it's exactly where you would think it would be. That's in Froyo. It was also possible in previous Android revisions, but the name of the menu items may have changed.
The ONLY thing that I find better on the iPod isn't really an app on that side: the music player. The default music player on my Android phone is clunky and hard to use.
And I only see a billion free music players in the Marketplace. It's not like you're forced to use the default Android music player. I don't think I have ever used it. But hey, I can bring up Museek, turn on smart shuffle and wind my way through the 4500 songs on my phone, search/select albums or single songs to add to the playlist. It's nifty. It's easy to use. You should try it.
Are you forced to use the default iOS music player? What if you don't like it?
I understand that. I just wish Greene would stop saying things that are wrong just because they are simple to understand. If you're going to explain quantum mechanics on the way to explaining the Many-Worlds interpretation, at least explain it by saying things that are correct. If you've got a point you can't simplify without being wrong, you should choose another tactic.
I've only heard interviews, so maybe his mistakes are just interview talk, and don't appear in the book. I hope so.
if he can't tell us how to get to Tanelorn nobody should take him seriously.
I can't see why people are so hung up on Tanelorn. I wish there was something that could prevent me from going there. Something bloody and unpleasant always happens, usually shortly before or after I arrive.
I heard an interview with Greene on the radio last week. He was talking about a junior-level quantum mechanics problem and he said something so wrong my head just about exploded. He said that something fundamentally changes about an electron when you localize it. That what was a probability wave now becomes a point particle. What?!? No it doesn't. It's still a wave that is governed by quantum mechanics. It doesn't suddenly become a point particle governed by Newtonian mechanics.
This long explanation was somehow key to his interpretation of the Many-Worlds theory. He also implied that the many universes of Brane theory and the many universes of the Many-Worlds theory, and other universes due to a Swiss-cheese spacetime are all the same in some unexplained way.
Brian Greene has been out in left field for a long time. Let's build a fence around him and call it a pasture.
With any government, in the end the people will decide. They may make a decision we agree with. They may make a decision we disagree with. Whether we get in the way or stand aside may affect the decision, and it may postpone the inevitable. Democracy, theocracy, or another dictatorship? Mubarak in exile, in prison, or dead? We'll find out soon enough.
The Forbes 400 is only the top 400. The plutocracy probably has a few hundred thousand members. And it's a stupid metric. If a current member of the Forbes 400 has four children and then dies, those four children probably won't be in the Forbes 400. They'll still be pretty fucking rich, no real money will have changed hands, and they'll still be part of the plutocracy.
If you can show me that 50 members of the current Forbes 400 grew up in poverty or that 50 members of the 1971 Forbes 400 died in poverty and left their children nothing, then maybe I'd say you have a point. Or even show that the racial makeup of the Forbes 400 matches the racial makeup of America, although that's less definitive.
Let's make some Tea Partiers mad by posting what some famous patriots thought. Are those exploding heads I hear?
"...no man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belong to the state." -Benjamin Franklin
"The descent of property of every kind therefore to all children, or to all the brothers and sisters, or other relations in equal degree, is a politic measure and a practicable one. Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise." --Thomas Jefferson
"An enormous Proportion of Property vested in a few Individuals is dangerous to the Rights, and destructive of the Common Happiness of Mankind; and therefore any free State hath a Right by its Laws to discourage the Possession of such Property." -Proposed inclusion to the Pennsylvania constitution, 1776.
"I shall now proceed to the plan I have to propose, which is,
To create a national fund, out of which there shall be paid to every person, when arrived at the age of twenty-one years, the sum of fifteen pounds sterling, as a compensation in part, for the loss of his or her natural inheritance, by the introduction of the system of landed property:
And also, the sum of ten pounds per annum, during life, to every person now living, of the age of fifty years, and to all others as they shall arrive at that age. "... " Various methods [exist for funding these payments], but that which appears to be the best is at the moment that property is passing by the death of one person to the possession of another. In this case, the bequeather gives nothing: the receiver pays nothing. The only matter to him is that the monopoly of natural inheritance, to which there never was a right, begins to cease in his person. A generous man would not wish it to continue, and a just man will rejoice to see it abolished." - Thomas Paine, Agrarian Justice
``If ever our people become so sordid as to feel that all that counts is moneyed prosperity, ignoble well-being, effortless ease and comfort, then this nation shall perish, as it will deserve to perish, from the earth.''...[Wealth should only be] ``the foundation on which to build the real life, the life of spiritual and moral effort and achievement.'' -Theodore Roosevelt, Republican, speaking in favor of inheritance taxes.
``The transmission from generation to generation of vast fortunes by will, inheritance or gift is not consistent with the ideals and sentiments of the American people."... ``Inherited economic power is as inconsistent with the ideals of this generation as inherited political power was inconsistent with the ideals of the generation which established our Government.'' -Franklin Roosevelt, Democrat, speaking in favor of inheritance taxes.
How times have changed. Today it would be hard to find a member of either party that would speak in favor of inheritance taxes. I wonder what TR would think we deserve now.
It is perfectly valid for me to make myself a success and guarantee the success of my decedents.
You may think it's valid, but inheritance is by no means a natural law. Inheritance is a social convention. The success of your descendants should be their own problem. Several of the founding fathers were quite against inherited wealth, but because it stifles industry in those who inherit their wealth, and because it leads to the foundation of a dangerous plutocracy.
The class warfare is one of the last attempts of a failed government
What do you thinks been going on since 1980? A war waged by the rich against everyone else, abetted by the government. Maybe it's time everyone else got some ammunition.
Well, according to some theories, democracy can't exist indefinitely. Eventually the voters realize that they can just vote themselves money and start electing the people who will give them the most.
In this case there's a third party in the loop. The voters are, in this case, voting for the people who will give the people who tell them how to vote the most money. But the end result is probably the same.
The single greatest predictor of lifelong poverty is weather you have a child out of wedlock.
I'm pretty sure that being born into poverty is a better predictor. I also think the study to which you refer has misrepresented a correlation as probably causality. It may be that the best indicator of whether you will have a child out of wedlock is whether you live in poverty.
Now the Government and the people spend all they have and go into debt.
You do realize that consumer and government debt was both a business model and an economic model forwarded by right wing "free-marketeers". First we deregulated the banks. Then GWB and Greenspan were telling people that going into debt would save the economy and make them part of the "ownership society." Well, they got pwned alright. And the banks and the politicians they owned were the ones who benefited from that absurd idea. There are a lot of people who should be rotting in jail over this. Most of them have (R) behind their names.
Yeah, because any bank is going to give your unemployed ass a business loan with no collateral.
I guess you can be a mule for JD who sells pharmaceuticals at the corner, and then take over the business when he suffers an unfortunate case of lead poisoning.
Have you ever even met a poor person and said something to them besides "I'll have a whopper combo with no pickles?"
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As with any red state, being an unlicensed smart person is illegal in North Carolina. If you're smart enough to have an well researched opinion on this subject, you need a license in order to express it.
It wasn't sorta true, it was false in a way that anyone who has taken an undergraduate QM course could see. What he said was absurd, in and of itself. It has nothing to do with interpretation. QM is hard enough for people to understand without introducing false dichotomy between particle and wave.
The fact that you need to drive the dish to track the sun, and convert mechanical energy into electrical makes it less simple that photovoltaic cells. The Stirling engine needs maintenance, the drive motors need maintenance, the continually flexing structure needs maintenance. The efficiency gains over photovoltaic might make it economic. Same with molten salt solar generators. Neither is simpler than connecting two wires for each cell and affixing them to a static surface.
I could imagine devising some sort of aiming device to take the angle of the sun into account to aim each mirror individually, if the device could allow a man to line up the spot without burning his eyes, then it seems that a stationary ship isn't even needed.
Please design and build such a device using materials available at the time. Assuming your soldiers have flat reflective shields, the device would just need to be designed so that the normal to the shield is facing a point exactly between the sun and the ship. Assume the ship is 500 meters away, and the shield is 1 meter across. Your soldier needs to hold the shield steady to 1 part in 1000, or 0.057 degrees (aka 3.4 arcminues). So you'll want the aiming device to be accurate to that amount. Remember, both the sun and the ship are moving, so this can't be a static aiming device. I think meshed brass gears and pivoting mirrors (unsilvered for the one pointing at the sun) are the way to go. No imaging optical allowed. Alignment to the shield is going to be tricky. Once you've got it built, contact Adam and Jamie, I'm sure they'll let you test it on the show.
How many times are you going to post this?
There are a ton of Vintage Camera apps in the Market ranging from free to $4.
For video streaming, check VLC Direct. Free, of course. It probably won't stream to AppleTV. But then again who has AppleTV?
Every thing he asked for is on Android, with possibly the exception of streaming Netflix movies (he didn't actually say that, but I'm assuming that's what he meant.) I would guess that is on the way soon. Personally, aside from NFL Sunday Ticket, I haven't had much use for viewing video on my phone.
That's not an Android problem, that's a Rovio Mobile problem.
Apple however caters to the 90% of users who don't have time to waste on doing crappily themselves.
Which explains Angry Birds and the abundance of fart apps. These people have no free time!
Go to your contact list. Open the menu. Select "Display Options". Select the "Sort List By" drop-down and select last name.
In other words it's exactly where you would think it would be. That's in Froyo. It was also possible in previous Android revisions, but the name of the menu items may have changed.
The ONLY thing that I find better on the iPod isn't really an app on that side: the music player. The default music player on my Android phone is clunky and hard to use.
And I only see a billion free music players in the Marketplace. It's not like you're forced to use the default Android music player. I don't think I have ever used it. But hey, I can bring up Museek, turn on smart shuffle and wind my way through the 4500 songs on my phone, search/select albums or single songs to add to the playlist. It's nifty. It's easy to use. You should try it.
Are you forced to use the default iOS music player? What if you don't like it?
I understand that. I just wish Greene would stop saying things that are wrong just because they are simple to understand. If you're going to explain quantum mechanics on the way to explaining the Many-Worlds interpretation, at least explain it by saying things that are correct. If you've got a point you can't simplify without being wrong, you should choose another tactic.
I've only heard interviews, so maybe his mistakes are just interview talk, and don't appear in the book. I hope so.
if he can't tell us how to get to Tanelorn nobody should take him seriously.
I can't see why people are so hung up on Tanelorn. I wish there was something that could prevent me from going there. Something bloody and unpleasant always happens, usually shortly before or after I arrive.
I heard an interview with Greene on the radio last week. He was talking about a junior-level quantum mechanics problem and he said something so wrong my head just about exploded. He said that something fundamentally changes about an electron when you localize it. That what was a probability wave now becomes a point particle. What?!? No it doesn't. It's still a wave that is governed by quantum mechanics. It doesn't suddenly become a point particle governed by Newtonian mechanics.
This long explanation was somehow key to his interpretation of the Many-Worlds theory. He also implied that the many universes of Brane theory and the many universes of the Many-Worlds theory, and other universes due to a Swiss-cheese spacetime are all the same in some unexplained way.
Brian Greene has been out in left field for a long time. Let's build a fence around him and call it a pasture.
They just wanted us to know they've lost that lovin' feeling.
Move along...
With any government, in the end the people will decide. They may make a decision we agree with. They may make a decision we disagree with. Whether we get in the way or stand aside may affect the decision, and it may postpone the inevitable. Democracy, theocracy, or another dictatorship? Mubarak in exile, in prison, or dead? We'll find out soon enough.
The Forbes 400 is only the top 400. The plutocracy probably has a few hundred thousand members. And it's a stupid metric. If a current member of the Forbes 400 has four children and then dies, those four children probably won't be in the Forbes 400. They'll still be pretty fucking rich, no real money will have changed hands, and they'll still be part of the plutocracy.
If you can show me that 50 members of the current Forbes 400 grew up in poverty or that 50 members of the 1971 Forbes 400 died in poverty and left their children nothing, then maybe I'd say you have a point. Or even show that the racial makeup of the Forbes 400 matches the racial makeup of America, although that's less definitive.
"...no man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belong to the state." -Benjamin Franklin
"The descent of property of every kind therefore to all children, or to all the brothers and sisters, or other relations in equal degree, is a politic measure and a practicable one. Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise." --Thomas Jefferson
"An enormous Proportion of Property vested in a few Individuals is dangerous to the Rights, and destructive of the Common Happiness of Mankind; and therefore any free State hath a Right by its Laws to discourage the Possession of such Property." -Proposed inclusion to the Pennsylvania constitution, 1776.
"I shall now proceed to the plan I have to propose, which is, To create a national fund, out of which there shall be paid to every person, when arrived at the age of twenty-one years, the sum of fifteen pounds sterling, as a compensation in part, for the loss of his or her natural inheritance, by the introduction of the system of landed property: And also, the sum of ten pounds per annum, during life, to every person now living, of the age of fifty years, and to all others as they shall arrive at that age. " ... " Various methods [exist for funding these payments], but that which appears to be the best is at the moment that property is passing by the death of one person to the possession of another. In this case, the bequeather gives nothing: the receiver pays nothing. The only matter to him is that the monopoly of natural inheritance, to which there never was a right, begins to cease in his person. A generous man would not wish it to continue, and a just man will rejoice to see it abolished." - Thomas Paine, Agrarian Justice
``If ever our people become so sordid as to feel that all that counts is moneyed prosperity, ignoble well-being, effortless ease and comfort, then this nation shall perish, as it will deserve to perish, from the earth.'' ...[Wealth should only be] ``the foundation on which to build the real life, the life of spiritual and moral effort and achievement.'' -Theodore Roosevelt, Republican, speaking in favor of inheritance taxes.
``The transmission from generation to generation of vast fortunes by will, inheritance or gift is not consistent with the ideals and sentiments of the American people." ... ``Inherited economic power is as inconsistent with the ideals of this generation as inherited political power was inconsistent with the ideals of the generation which established our Government.'' -Franklin Roosevelt, Democrat, speaking in favor of inheritance taxes.
How times have changed. Today it would be hard to find a member of either party that would speak in favor of inheritance taxes. I wonder what TR would think we deserve now.
It is perfectly valid for me to make myself a success and guarantee the success of my decedents.
You may think it's valid, but inheritance is by no means a natural law. Inheritance is a social convention. The success of your descendants should be their own problem. Several of the founding fathers were quite against inherited wealth, but because it stifles industry in those who inherit their wealth, and because it leads to the foundation of a dangerous plutocracy.
Unfortunately, we're well past that point.
The class warfare is one of the last attempts of a failed government
What do you thinks been going on since 1980? A war waged by the rich against everyone else, abetted by the government. Maybe it's time everyone else got some ammunition.
Thanks, I really needed a laugh!
Well, according to some theories, democracy can't exist indefinitely. Eventually the voters realize that they can just vote themselves money and start electing the people who will give them the most.
In this case there's a third party in the loop. The voters are, in this case, voting for the people who will give the people who tell them how to vote the most money. But the end result is probably the same.
The single greatest predictor of lifelong poverty is weather you have a child out of wedlock.
I'm pretty sure that being born into poverty is a better predictor. I also think the study to which you refer has misrepresented a correlation as probably causality. It may be that the best indicator of whether you will have a child out of wedlock is whether you live in poverty.
Now the Government and the people spend all they have and go into debt.
You do realize that consumer and government debt was both a business model and an economic model forwarded by right wing "free-marketeers". First we deregulated the banks. Then GWB and Greenspan were telling people that going into debt would save the economy and make them part of the "ownership society." Well, they got pwned alright. And the banks and the politicians they owned were the ones who benefited from that absurd idea. There are a lot of people who should be rotting in jail over this. Most of them have (R) behind their names.
Yeah, because any bank is going to give your unemployed ass a business loan with no collateral.
I guess you can be a mule for JD who sells pharmaceuticals at the corner, and then take over the business when he suffers an unfortunate case of lead poisoning.
Have you ever even met a poor person and said something to them besides "I'll have a whopper combo with no pickles?"