Nobody would have predicted that Quantum Mechanics would have any real use either. Yet without our knowledge of it, the modern computer would not have existed.
At the risk of Godwinning, the Nazi's felt very much the same way you did, and felt that theoretical science was useless and a typical 'Jew' thing to do. Good ol' useful German engineering was the way forward. Einstein left Germany partially because of that - people were becoming hostile to theoretical (and Jewish) scientists. When he worked out the energy mass equivalence (E=mc^2) but he himself did not see how it could be used in any practical way. And yet, in an ironical twist in history, it was those theoretical equations that ended the war.
Theoretical science has produced _so_ much, that it pisses me off when people want to cut funding to it. Have you no appreciation for what it has produced so far? It's track record has been absolutely amazing.
> But of course you can't go in one cuz you'll get destroyed
This is a rather popular myth. It is true that for a small black hole the tidal forces will rip you apart. But for a large black hole (such as those at the center of a galaxy), you can comfortably enter one.
Which is rather interesting in itself. Pretty much every galaxy that we can see, has a super massive black hole in the center of it. It's almost like aliens have setup wormhole portals in every galaxy...
I was mostly responding to my parent post, stating that the military is there to protect you and that without the military 'bad guys would be hurting you'. Particularly in the context of this article, which is about more advanced military capabilities etc.
My argument is that with only a skeleton military force, the US would be pretty much just as protected as it would be with one.
I'm not however making any moral argument or judgement about protecting others. A military force is required if you want to protect others. If someone argued that the US should have a military force in order to act as a world police, then that would be a valid argument, but different from arguing whether it protects the US.
Say the US had no military at all, but just the minimum required to maintain its nuclear arsenal, plus the various groups for protecting against the odd suicide bomber etc.
In this situation, would the US be protected any less compared to having a mighty army?
Does this also mean that an app can also sleep for a very short period? Normally a sleep function is limited by the granularity of the kernel ticks. Will this make sleeping for, say, 1ms more accurate and reliable?
They won't have different wavelengths when the interfere. It's only shifted while 'in' the wave. So where they interfere they will either be in the wave or not.
> As the gravity wave compresses and then dilates space-time, the LIGO tube and the laser beam within it will compress and dilate in perfect synchrony.
This part isn't correct. The laser beam will be redshifted and change its wavelength, however it will still travel at the speed of light, c. Since the distance between the two ends is less, it will travel that distance in a shorter time.
He's talking about, for example, where we have observed two neutron stars are orbiting each other, and their orbiting speed is slowing down. If you say that it's because they are giving off 'gravity waves' and thus losing energy in that way, then the theory exactly matches the results.
Personally I'd side with LIGO being wrong or not sensitive enough or something. At least until there's a bit more evidence.
> First of all, they don't have a legal leg to stand on. They just want you to buy your licenses early, but its not like they could do anything about it if you don't.
Um, they could simply refuse to sell you a license.
> Who said using the library meant going down there and searching through books for an answer? Most libraries pay for access to electronic databases nowadays. You can probably access them from home with your library card.
What's the point in walking to a brick library, just to go onto the computer?
> A college or university-affiliated library is your best bet to have access to those through online databases. Google doesn't.
Google has access to a lot of the online databases. Check out google scholar.
Well the research is for finding what other people are doing in the field, finding how much work fits in etc. Finding such materials is faster via google, but reading it takes just as long of course.
I read that 80% of information is contained in patents and nowhere else.
Of course, the definition of 'information' is somewhat vague etc, but the general idea is there. There is far more information out there than just papers in journals.
Why is it somehow better to have to go down to a local library and search through books for an answer, than a quick google search? I'm doing my PhD, and pretty much everything that I need for my research is a google search away. In particular google scholar rocks.
I'd rather spend my time actually reading the info than trying to find it.
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A modern computer would be possible without a modern understanding of Quantum Mechanics.
Nobody would have predicted that Quantum Mechanics would have any real use either. Yet without our knowledge of it, the modern computer would not have existed.
At the risk of Godwinning, the Nazi's felt very much the same way you did, and felt that theoretical science was useless and a typical 'Jew' thing to do. Good ol' useful German engineering was the way forward.
Einstein left Germany partially because of that - people were becoming hostile to theoretical (and Jewish) scientists. When he worked out the energy mass equivalence (E=mc^2) but he himself did not see how it could be used in any practical way.
And yet, in an ironical twist in history, it was those theoretical equations that ended the war.
Theoretical science has produced _so_ much, that it pisses me off when people want to cut funding to it. Have you no appreciation for what it has produced so far? It's track record has been absolutely amazing.
> But of course you can't go in one cuz you'll get destroyed
This is a rather popular myth. It is true that for a small black hole the tidal forces will rip you apart. But for a large black hole (such as those at the center of a galaxy), you can comfortably enter one.
Which is rather interesting in itself. Pretty much every galaxy that we can see, has a super massive black hole in the center of it. It's almost like aliens have setup wormhole portals in every galaxy...
If you buy a machine with Ubuntu pre-installed, then presumably the wireless should 'just work' on that too.
I find 'kbib' to be better than kbibtex, btw. Not much difference between them, but there you go.
The only niggle is that you have to remember to save the file. I really wish it would just automatically save after adding a record.
I was mostly responding to my parent post, stating that the military is there to protect you and that without the military 'bad guys would be hurting you'. Particularly in the context of this article, which is about more advanced military capabilities etc.
My argument is that with only a skeleton military force, the US would be pretty much just as protected as it would be with one.
I'm not however making any moral argument or judgement about protecting others. A military force is required if you want to protect others. If someone argued that the US should have a military force in order to act as a world police, then that would be a valid argument, but different from arguing whether it protects the US.
source?
Say the US had no military at all, but just the minimum required to maintain its nuclear arsenal, plus the various groups for protecting against the odd suicide bomber etc.
In this situation, would the US be protected any less compared to having a mighty army?
Does this also mean that an app can also sleep for a very short period? Normally a sleep function is limited by the granularity of the kernel ticks. Will this make sleeping for, say, 1ms more accurate and reliable?
They won't have different wavelengths when the interfere. It's only shifted while 'in' the wave. So where they interfere they will either be in the wave or not.
> As the gravity wave compresses and then dilates space-time, the LIGO tube and the laser beam within it will compress and dilate in perfect synchrony.
This part isn't correct. The laser beam will be redshifted and change its wavelength, however it will still travel at the speed of light, c. Since the distance between the two ends is less, it will travel that distance in a shorter time.
He's talking about, for example, where we have observed two neutron stars are orbiting each other, and their orbiting speed is slowing down. If you say that it's because they are giving off 'gravity waves' and thus losing energy in that way, then the theory exactly matches the results.
Personally I'd side with LIGO being wrong or not sensitive enough or something. At least until there's a bit more evidence.
You can just set the same flag to prevent dtrace from monitoring your app.
In order to set an example, and ensure future income? Sure.
I met a greek guy who believed that evolution created animals, but then a God had sex with one of the animals and created man.
Seriously.
> First of all, they don't have a legal leg to stand on. They just want you to buy your licenses early, but its not like they could do anything about it if you don't.
Um, they could simply refuse to sell you a license.
> Who said using the library meant going down there and searching through books for an answer? Most libraries pay for access to electronic databases nowadays. You can probably access them from home with your library card.
What's the point in walking to a brick library, just to go onto the computer?
> A college or university-affiliated library is your best bet to have access to those through online databases. Google doesn't.
Google has access to a lot of the online databases. Check out google scholar.
And google can search a lot of books and scientific journals and patents.
Meh, if noone at all has bothered to put the other view on the web, then it's probably not that important.
And it seems easier to get a dissenting non-popular view on the web than it is to get it published in a book and stored by a local library.
First google match for 'aspect oriented programming' is the wikipedia article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-oriented_programming
It seems pretty complete. What exactly is lacking?
For your last example, are you honestly saying that you can't find what is required for SEI level 3 compliance on google?
A quick google search brings up plenty about it.
Well the research is for finding what other people are doing in the field, finding how much work fits in etc. Finding such materials is faster via google, but reading it takes just as long of course.
Have tried google? No honestly - the guttenburg project for example has a lot of old books. Probably far more books than any library.
I read that 80% of information is contained in patents and nowhere else.
Of course, the definition of 'information' is somewhat vague etc, but the general idea is there. There is far more information out there than just papers in journals.
Why is it somehow better to have to go down to a local library and search through books for an answer, than a quick google search?
I'm doing my PhD, and pretty much everything that I need for my research is a google search away. In particular google scholar rocks.
I'd rather spend my time actually reading the info than trying to find it.
How about the whole thing about rabbits chew their cud?