To our frame of reference the Light appears to be bent. But if you were siting on the photo traveling buy a black hole it would appear that you are moving start and the rest of the universe is bent. Yup, this is what I was attempting to say. =)
There are 4 coordinates. X,Y,Z and t where t = time. The thing that causes light to bend is the a bend in space time. It is skeleton of the Universe so to say. As space time bends everything with in it bends also. But since everything in that section of space time is bent in the same way that to something in that reference frame everything in normal. But to everything not in that section of space time well see it as bent. Well, in a way. Time's existence cannot be proven or disproven, and it doesn't really matter, the laws all work in much the same way, to the same effect, just thaI have a different view on the universe as a whole.
Things come to mind, like bending space somehow to create matter, as most phenomena in physics are reversible. You create mass, you create a bend in space.. therefore the reverse should be possible.
Another interesting question, a bit off base, is this.. inertia.
Place a bucket of water at the gravitational center of the universe.. now spin it.. water will rise at the edges due to the 'centripetal' or 'centrifugal' forces, depending on how educated you are, you will say one of these is the right one.. =)
Now lets try another reference frame... hold the water and bucket still, and spin the universe around it. What will happen? In a strange way this mystery also brings to mind another question, gravity's propagation... how fast would a planet 8 light minutes away from from a sun feel the effects of it's star suddenly being erased from existance? Will it continue to orbit for 8 minutes and then break off into a linear path? Hmm.. perhaps we may never know. =)
Solutions and theories never answer questions, they always make new ones.. this means we are going about trying to figure out the universe backwards.
Can light be slowed down by very powerful gravitational fields?
Can light be sped up by very powerful gravitational fields?
Can light be bent by very powerful gravitational fields?
1) Not really, 'time' supposedly speeds up near strong gravitational sources, think of light rushing outwards from a black hole. Time-space is rushing INTO the black hole, thus making the photon analogous to a salmon swimming upstream. It's velocity in relation to the stream is still the same as the photon's (or salmons) full bore speed in a stationary medium.
2)same as question one.
3) same as question one. gravity supposedly bends space-time, light however follows this bend, but to the photon's perspective, it is travelling straight.
My hand can change the speed of light from c to 0. But is there anything that keeps going through my hand? Is the light riding along something that keeps going throught? Can that something, pick up light after it has gone through my hand?
Um.. no. Your hand doesn't stop light. Light still has a 'c' value, but it is slower than in a vacuum. Same for water, thus the refractive property. If it wasn't for this, telescopes, and your eye-ball for that matter, couldn't function.. Use a brighter light! =) See that pink glow.. that is light coming through your hand. Wow.. X-rays are light too.. they go right through.. that is because of the difference in wavelength, your hand is transparent to that wavelength, less likely to be absorbed.
OMFnG! I musta been way drunk last night. I can't believe i made THAT many mistakes last night.. Guiness bad.. wait.. no it's good =)
I don't see that you've proved that time can't exist. I am kinda wondering about your grasp of calculus though. Did you mean for dx to mean "delta x" or "differential of x"? In any case, you seem to be bothered that you can't describe motion in space-time with a variable independent of space and time. This is the same thing that bothered many physicist when Einstein first introduced relativity.
Aside from my apparent disregard for the pytagorean theorem.. (jeezus) what I was getting at is this...
If you take time to be another dimension, just like, say x,y,z, then you can't describe velocity that has a t component in a sensible manner, because we gauge velocity with time, and therefor there isn't an independent variable. I guess my issue is unitary in nature. If you look at time as being positional, and not really the concept of time we all hold so dear, then it makes sense, because in this static world where nothing moves, there wouldn't really be 'velocities', merely changes in position between two reference frames. Any so called change in time, the passage of it, for instance, would be described as a displacement along the t vector. If we hold T to be positional, then we will be judging velocity in 3-space as a function of distance traversed in 3-space in relation to inital and final t coordinates.. holding t to be positional (like x,y,z) then it is possible to move along t, back and forth, then if you choose a pair of reference frames where t0 and t1 are the same, velocity as we know it is zero. of course if you break it down a bit you will notice that the particle is moving, but that requires us to be able to measure t directly. maybe i'm not making any sense. to me, once you've married time to space, you can't have a change in one without a change in the other, and that poses problems. I'm sure Einstein struggled with this question, most likely from a different perspective.
Think about it. We can't really know anything for certain. Take Schroedinger's equation and try solving it for the microscopic universe that is a single hydrogen atom. Oh, BTW.. have fun. =)
See, I am of the school that states that time itself is non-existent, and we measure this illusionary entity with clocks and day planners.
My main gripe with people who take relativity WAY too seriously is thus.. they call this mess that we live in 'time-space', citing that it is one entity. In that sense, there is no such thing as just the space, or just the time.. it is the same.. now.. how do we determine our distance from another point in spacetime? Simple.. (X1-X0)+(Y1-Y0)+(Z1-Z0)+(T1-T0).. lets simplify this by just stating dx+dy+dz+dt.. ok.. now lets try velocity...
velocity in the x coordinate.. dx/dt ok.. =)
velocity in the y coordinate.. dy/dt ok.. =)
velocity in the z coordinate.. dz/dt ok.. =]
velocity in the t coordinate.. dt/dt oh shit. =(
so one particle is moving through the t coordinate really fast, and the other isn't moving through t at all.. dx,dy,dz being equal, they are have the same velocity. riiight.
i say just elimate 't' as a whole.. makes things about as easy as can be imagined.. The problem is that the illusion of time is just so strong, so intuitive that we might just end up taking another 2000 years to break free of it. Think about how long people thought the earth was flat... why? Because it seemed like it was. The moon was round.. but it always presented itself to us with one face.. if that bastard was spinning just a little faster, man would have taken it for granted that the moon was a sphere, and would have given earth that same attribute..
I think we are just now starting to realize that there is something that just doesn't seem quite right with our universe..
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>Seriously W-T-F
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>RULINGS LIKE THESE ARE DESTROYING THE F'N CHECKS >AND BALANCES SYSTEM
Clearly you are mistaken, the checks and balances have long been gone. I envy those who live abroad, and live in countries that are home to governments that actually work.
It's going to be a sad day in DC when the people of the United States have to exercise their second amendment rights to protect the few remaining rights they have. Honestly, the whole thing is bullshit nowadays.
The way our forefathers envisioned this country is a far cry from what it has become. Serving in our military is a duty of the citizens. Serving on a jury is the duty of the citizens. Holding an elected position... is a DUTY of the CITIZENS. Not a privilege. Elected officials do not become gods.. they are still people.. still citizens. When one citizen infringes upon the rights of another.. They get their ass THROWN IN JAIL!
Then we have the PRESIDENT.. the PRESIDENT.. lie under oath.. WTF!? I know someone who went away for 5 years because of perjury.. and it wasn't even that bad of a lie compared to what Willy did.
I'm sorry to say it, but the system is too broken to even attempt a fix. The fact is those who are hellbent on becoming government officials choose to do so early in life and then pursue that dream until it happens.. Why on earth are they going to limit their own powers in favor of preserving the freedom of the people?? Sensible term limits.. yeah right.. that will never happen.. A sensible term limit should be as follows...
1. Elected officials should be given 2 (pronounced TWO, and in no event to be equal or greater than three) years in office.
2.Once out of office, elected officials will not share any freedoms or immunities that any other citizen of the United States doesn't possess.
3. By public vote, an official can be tried at ANY point in time in a court of law, by a jury of citizens, to determine if the official is worthy of his or her position.
4. Any representative, president, etc who choses to defy the people of the United States, and abridges the rights of the people without due cause MUST stand trial. A vote shall be cast by any able voter nationwide. Should the representative(s) be found guilty of unjustly restricting the rights of the people.. the punishment will be a swift and merciful death at the hands of the armed populace. Removing the rights of another citizen, while a citizen, doesn't warrant the death penalty, however doing so as a trusted and elected official constitutes treason.
5. Any governmental branch that attempts to defer, downplay, or otherwise attempt to stifle such a call to trial by the people shall be immediately disempowered and rendered void. Officials in that branch must then stand trial as prisoners of war on the charge of treason. The punishment for treason is and has always been death.
This guideline will ensure that elected officials will try to make things better for the common folk.. because that is all they are, and they will be stripped of rank in two years anyways. Also only those with a sincere drive to better this country will pursue an office position. Those who have alternative goals, or who's actions are clouded by so called 'special-interest' groups who have no right to be in this country, should fear holding such a position.
I really hate to sound like a radical, especially since I do not consider myself one. I too dream of a world of peace and prosperity, but we are not trying very hard to achieve that goal. Don't blame that on our government, blame it on yourselves. Everyday of your life you should be thinking about how to make things right.. how to better our country. Most of us just sit quietly and let others make the decisions... I'm willing to bet most of you reading this don't even vote. And by vote I mean city, state, AND national. Upset that the courts overthrew this case against the DMCA? Pissed off that you weren't the judge on that case? Think you can do better? I think you can. I think we all can..
And to those in office... I know some of you listen, I've received email replies back.. but most of you ignore us, the people. Don't forget who put you in office.. and don't forget who has the right, as stated in the Constitution, to remove you and/or the entire government body from power. There is growing resentment amongst the people of this once great nation. In the past revolution has followed such events. Do not shrug this off, wake up and listen to your fellow countrymen...
-freya
I expect to be arrested by the feds tomorrow.. that's OK, i already called my employer.
Yeah yeah.. but listen to Bush next time.. honestly. If he doesn't mention god in his next speech at least 8 times.. it will be a new record for him. It is very apparent to the people of this country, and especially foreigners who are non-christian (i'm proudly non-christian, but i'm not anti-christian) that GWBush is trying to shove Christianity down the throats of the people. He is making it a point that 'We are good, they are evil, god will let us win' WHOOP-DEE-FOOKING-DOO.. i'm going to laugh my ass off when we fail at this war miserably.. and GWB has to explain why 'God' didn't bail us out.
>>I'm actually relieved that the government isn't doing exactly what the people tell it. A recent Gallup poll indicated that a majority favors requiring citizens of Arab descent to carry ID!! That is fucking scary.
WTF! You have to carry ID with you anyways.. at all time.. Puzzled? Ask your local law enforcement agency. But yes.. the poll just goes to show how stupid the average american is. People are ignorant of the laws. They have no idea what they are in for. The government keeps tightening the noose.. but they fail to realize that without the people, and their support.. the elected officials are nothing.
That is the point. There is nothing illegal about holding an armed protest. The very fact that the government would become 1) nervous, and 2) upset at the presence of such a gathering indicates that they KNOW they are doing the wrong thing, and that they probably have something to hide.
Telling these people to disperse and go home is a violation of our first amendment rights. Having the government say 'you can protest, but we need your guns' is a blantant disregard for our second amendment rights. If people stand their ground and refuse to give in to the tyranny of the government, what will happen? And if the government tries any type of violent act against these people gathered in peace, then a state of war against the government becomes valid. (see US constitution and bill of rights, etc) I personally would fire upon armed government officials if they were shooting into a group of peaceful protestors. I wouldn't even think twice about it. And if the government thinks they have a right to limit OUR freedom, without even letting US, the people have a say in it.. well they have another thing coming.
The point made earlier is valid, on all counts. There is no practical way that we the people can fix our government. The checks and balances placed into the system have failed, and failed miserably. We have the executive branch of the government now giving direct orders to the judicial branch.. knocking out the one last part of the government that I had faith could turn the situation around. (Bush telling DOJ to drop MS case for instance, hundreds of other instances though) The laws are all slanted in favor of the elected officials and big business. The welfare of the people is apparently being overlooked. Why would an elected official spend millions of dollars in an ad campaign, then come into office and then argue FOR sensible term limits?? Lets get real here people. Our government is not accountable for their actions any longer. It's downhill from here. Need proof? DMCA... SSSCA.. need i continue?
Fact is, the government cannot GIVE you rights.. they can only limit them or take them away. It is the job of the government to ensure the safety of the people under its care. This, unfortunately, involves limiting rights to some extent to keep law and order... but if it isn't broken, don't fix it. We've existed on our minimal set of laws for over 100 years and the country worked well.. people were happy.. the government then had to get creative with prohibition, strict gun laws, etc. This is not what America is about.
Amen on that one. None of us have the desire to be put on the 5 o'clock news as another foolish person to rush Capitol Hill, I can't think of a worse way to go.
However.. this country was founded on the premise that freedom is more important than life itself. I think it's high time we let the government understand this. They can call you to a draft, completely limit your freedoms, and possibly get you killed on foreign soil.. but that is the price of freedom. I accept that. What I will *NOT* tolerate is the fat pigs sitting on MY hard earned money deciding that they can limit my rights even further because of terrorist activity like this. Laws do not reduce crime, they create it. Criminals have no regard for the law. Laws only work if there is a swift, fair and efficient judicial system to back it up. Find that in America? Not today.
Just use the government's words against them. We need to hold an ARMED protest at the capitol, with no foul intent. Let them become nervous. Violate the new laws in a manner that does NOT jeopardize our country's security.. then when they use violence against you for a non-violent act, declare war on the system and elect a new government by force. It is the duty of the PEOPLE of this country to hold the government in check. If this country truly is governed by a government by the people, for the people... why does such a large portion of the people depise the institution?
I pray to the gods and powers that be.. that our government doesn't screw us over in this 'crusade' that Bush is launching. I'm not against the war, but he was VERY immature putting such a blatant Christian twist on things. More importantly, i *URGE* every citizen of this country that cares for his/her life, family, and friends to take a moment, even with your children, and read about this country's glorious first years. Read the written foundation that our forefathers laid down so many years ago.. and ask yourself if this is right.. is this what you want.. and what is your duty as an American.
well.. to be honest with you (I'll probably end up in Jail for openly discussing this solution, which may be in violation of the DMCA) i found a workaround..
Lets assume your number is 1-800-867-5309.. just dial it like this..
18008675309* or 18008675309# yup.. guess what.. new tone sequence.. deal with it. I assume that they will be promptly adding to their little opus now..
And technically, according to music laws, if you have, say, a really common bass line, and someone else uses it with a different Melody, you really can't claim anything... soo... sing along now
i run a domain in the 63.110.x.x subnet, and this worm is particularly fierce here. I'm logging about 20 attempts per second at peak. Really bizarre.
The IP addresses that these are coming in from are quite varied and seem spread out across the country. Oh well.. maybe people will get a clue and just shut down all the IIS boxes.
I'm not stating that linux is better, it's just that people aren't wasting their time trying to bring down apache servers. I'm really thankful of the fact they haven't targeted apache yet.
As if anyone cares, my first 'hit' was from 63.110.157.49 at 0628 this morning. And yes, this thing is quite spammy.
Single molecule doesn't mean much at all. In fact many people don't realize that conventional Microprocessors are built upon a silicon substrate that is formed by taking thin slices from a relatively large cylinder of solid silicon. This cylinder is usually a foot wide, 2-5 feet long.. and is ONE MOLECULE. It is sliced into thin wafers and then printed with sometimes 1000 chips per wafer.
The only thing that is noteworthy is the fact that this article states that the transistors are a micron wide. That, in reality, isn't much smaller than transistors in your P4 or Athlon.
-freija
Yes, i'd be thrilled if the Linux CD for PS2 showed up on my doorstep tomorrow. I'd also be thrilled if the XBox comes out for $299 and Sony ships a free HDD/Ethernet upgrade to EVERY REGISTERED owner of the PS2, to make it a cost-competitive opponent to the X-Box and gain customer loyalty.. but lets face it.
IT HASN'T HAPPENED
We all know that linux WILL be ported to the PS2. It is inevitable. We all know there are HDD upgrades and broadband via USB or Firewire at the customer's discretion. This is all posted on Sony's website. Doesn't take a Sherlock to discover this.
I'm willing to bet the big fish at slashdot $1000 that they can't resist the temptation to post on this thread again until it actually happens. This thread has been rehashed what, 20 times in the last year here at Slashdot? Go back to the first posting of Linux/Playstation possibility, and tell me what has changed.
Not completely true. If the government does something COMPLETELY irrational and blasphemous, it is a right.. scratch that.. the DUTY of the american people to get rid of such a 'government'.. so as long as the 2nd amendment is still intact, the american citizens will have the tools needed to perform this duty. Now, is such a revolution warranted over the DeCSS / DCMA / MPAA and RIAA issues we face today?
No.
It might not be feasible in THIS case, one day it will be though if the government doesn't cure it's cronic case of Rectal-Cranial Inversion.
The Justice League, God, Jesus, and Satan himself will also be siding with the EFF in this case to halt the DMCA's reign of terror. Yeah, right. I highly doubt anything will ever come with this. Call me a cynic, but ever since the DeCSS case, I've lost all faith in the government using common sense when working on technology oriented legislation.
Hey, don't lose faith in the US government. They don't always do things with the citizens' best interests at heart, but it is the best system we have. They might pass bills behind your back that slowly erode at your first amendment rights, such as the DCMA. Just have patience.
Point is, as an American, you have your second ammendment rights to help you protect the rights granted to you by the first ammendment. No need to fear such a government.
Yes, qouted from THEIR site. =) BTW, i have the file mirrored. If you want URL because you are having problems, email me. I don't want my humble domain to become another slashdot statistic.
-freija
It might be snowing on that planet. This brings up two interesting points.
Firstly, where did i put my ski equipment? I think there are some pretty cool mountains in that telescope image.
Now for the serious thing. Where do the scientists come up with ideas like that? Granted, i do have a few years of Chemical Engineering under my belt, but how could it be snowing? One would think that after all this time, that the system (weather) on Titan should be more or less at a steady state condition. It is too cold on Titan to allow for liquid water so the snow couldn't melt. It can't evaporate either since, according to scientists in the article, the atmosphere is 10 times thicker than here on earth. Snow isn't going to vaporize at 10atm. The last possibility is that strong winds could be picking snow up from the surface and lifting it to the atmosphere where it can rain down once more. This contrasts with another NASA article stating that the 'fog' on Titan is not turbulent, but dead still, this was stated to shut out theories that these 'bright' spots were merely weather phenomena like seen with Jupiter's Red Spot.
Anyone want to enlighten me or comment on this further, this article has me quite intrigued.
I don't think he was being immature. Think about it, the games have to support a left and right image, so the drivers are VERY similar to what is needed to drive 3d-LCD shutter glasses, technology that is what, at least 8 years old? NVidia based cards, even in the old TNT days, were capable of using glasses, and they work well, probably better than this new LCD-Flatpanel. I'm sure you have to be a certain distance from the screen, and not too far to either side. 3d shutter glasses do not have this limitation.
Secondly, i've seen this technology, it works.. but tilt your head so that one eye is higher than the other.. Byebye 3d. Another thing shutter glasses don't suffer.
Lastly, do you really need to shell out $1600 for a 17inch LCD just so you don't look geeky having to wear shutter glasses? Glasses costing $40 that work on 14" monitors, 21" monitors, anything as long as the refresh rate is good enough (120hz eliminates noticeable flicker).
My point? Where is the stereoscopic support in XFree? This isn't new technology, just a new device using the same tricks. One aspect of linux that i adore is the development community keeping old, obsolete hardware alive. But it's been a long time since stereoscopic OpenGL was developed, i doubt that because new monitors support it that we are going to suddenly see new drivers.
I personally think that our concept of "Time" is severely warped. I don't acknowledge it's existance at all, and as such the 'curvature of space-time' is a fallacy. Gravity doesn't 'warp' space-time because space-time doesn't exist. Everything is static, unchanging.
Take for instance the center of our universe, an apparently 3-Dimensional conglomeration of mass forming stars, planets, etc, all exerting a gravitational pull. If you spin a bucket full of water, the water will rise to the sides as it does here on earth. Relatively speaking, if the bucket was held still and the universe spun around it, would the same effect take place? If it does, does the water surface change instantly, or several thousand years later. If it happens instantly, one would have to acknowledge that gravity propagates through 'space-time' at hyper-relativistic speeds.
I should claim that the 3-d array defined by a 320x240x256 containing (256)^76800 records is MY intellectual property and copyright the formula defining it, as it will contain ALL possible images in the 320x240 by 256 color domain. Thus i could merely plug in a value and get a still image from the movie "The Matrix" or better yet define a set of records to represent any and every movie ever conceived. Suddenly I own the rights to all video imagery.
Sure, it's absurd, but you know someone is going to try pulling something like that.
You know they have a problem with math sometimes. I'd check to see that everything was in metric this time and that no units are getting confused. Probably something silly like that, silly until the probes come crashing back to earth.. wait!! that's it.. they are using the probes as new weapo... thud..
Re:Yet another 3D-without-goggles thing. Yawn.
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It isn't so much "I'll believe it when I see it." as it is "I'll give a damn when it's supported in Linux"
In defense of 3D Goggles, LCD Shutter glasses are fairly convincing at a high enough refresh rate and are not bulky like some VR goggles that are actually two small wearable LCD monitors.
LCD glasses have been around for several years now and there still isn't a way to use them in linux, despite the fact that getting it to work shouldn't be that difficult.
Maybe true 3d will be added to XFree86 servers once people start shelling out $4000+ for a 'layered LCD monitor' instead of $40 for LCD glasses. Then again, maybe not.
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To our frame of reference the Light appears to be bent. But if you were siting on the photo traveling buy a black hole it would appear that you are moving start and the rest of the universe is bent.
Yup, this is what I was attempting to say. =)
There are 4 coordinates. X,Y,Z and t where t = time. The thing that causes light to bend is the a bend in space time. It is skeleton of the Universe so to say. As space time bends everything with in it bends also. But since everything in that section of space time is bent in the same way that to something in that reference frame everything in normal. But to everything not in that section of space time well see it as bent.
Well, in a way. Time's existence cannot be proven or disproven, and it doesn't really matter, the laws all work in much the same way, to the same effect, just thaI have a different view on the universe as a whole.
Things come to mind, like bending space somehow to create matter, as most phenomena in physics are reversible. You create mass, you create a bend in space.. therefore the reverse should be possible.
Another interesting question, a bit off base, is this.. inertia.
Place a bucket of water at the gravitational center of the universe.. now spin it.. water will rise at the edges due to the 'centripetal' or 'centrifugal' forces, depending on how educated you are, you will say one of these is the right one.. =)
Now lets try another reference frame... hold the water and bucket still, and spin the universe around it. What will happen? In a strange way this mystery also brings to mind another question, gravity's propagation... how fast would a planet 8 light minutes away from from a sun feel the effects of it's star suddenly being erased from existance? Will it continue to orbit for 8 minutes and then break off into a linear path? Hmm.. perhaps we may never know. =)
Solutions and theories never answer questions, they always make new ones.. this means we are going about trying to figure out the universe backwards.
Can light be slowed down by very powerful gravitational fields?
Can light be sped up by very powerful gravitational fields?
Can light be bent by very powerful gravitational fields?
1) Not really, 'time' supposedly speeds up near strong gravitational sources, think of light rushing outwards from a black hole. Time-space is rushing INTO the black hole, thus making the photon analogous to a salmon swimming upstream. It's velocity in relation to the stream is still the same as the photon's (or salmons) full bore speed in a stationary medium.
2)same as question one.
3) same as question one. gravity supposedly bends space-time, light however follows this bend, but to the photon's perspective, it is travelling straight.
My hand can change the speed of light from c to 0. But is there anything that keeps going through my hand? Is the light riding along something that keeps going throught? Can that something, pick up light after it has gone through my hand?
Um.. no. Your hand doesn't stop light. Light still has a 'c' value, but it is slower than in a vacuum. Same for water, thus the refractive property. If it wasn't for this, telescopes, and your eye-ball for that matter, couldn't function.. Use a brighter light! =) See that pink glow.. that is light coming through your hand. Wow.. X-rays are light too.. they go right through.. that is because of the difference in wavelength, your hand is transparent to that wavelength, less likely to be absorbed.
Hope that clears things up.
OMFnG! I musta been way drunk last night. I can't believe i made THAT many mistakes last night.. Guiness bad.. wait.. no it's good =)
I don't see that you've proved that time can't exist. I am kinda wondering about your grasp of calculus though. Did you mean for dx to mean "delta x" or "differential of x"? In any case, you seem to be bothered that you can't describe motion in space-time with a variable independent of space and time. This is the same thing that bothered many physicist when Einstein first introduced relativity.
Aside from my apparent disregard for the pytagorean theorem.. (jeezus) what I was getting at is this...
If you take time to be another dimension, just like, say x,y,z, then you can't describe velocity that has a t component in a sensible manner, because we gauge velocity with time, and therefor there isn't an independent variable. I guess my issue is unitary in nature. If you look at time as being positional, and not really the concept of time we all hold so dear, then it makes sense, because in this static world where nothing moves, there wouldn't really be 'velocities', merely changes in position between two reference frames. Any so called change in time, the passage of it, for instance, would be described as a displacement along the t vector. If we hold T to be positional, then we will be judging velocity in 3-space as a function of distance traversed in 3-space in relation to inital and final t coordinates.. holding t to be positional (like x,y,z) then it is possible to move along t, back and forth, then if you choose a pair of reference frames where t0 and t1 are the same, velocity as we know it is zero. of course if you break it down a bit you will notice that the particle is moving, but that requires us to be able to measure t directly. maybe i'm not making any sense. to me, once you've married time to space, you can't have a change in one without a change in the other, and that poses problems. I'm sure Einstein struggled with this question, most likely from a different perspective.
>Sounds like someone's never heard of Pythagoras.
yeah, i meant (dx^2+dy^2+dz^2+dt^2)^(1/2)..
Sounds like someone's never heard of beer..
Not a troll.. but..
Think about it. We can't really know anything for certain. Take Schroedinger's equation and try solving it for the microscopic universe that is a single hydrogen atom. Oh, BTW.. have fun. =)
See, I am of the school that states that time itself is non-existent, and we measure this illusionary entity with clocks and day planners.
My main gripe with people who take relativity WAY too seriously is thus.. they call this mess that we live in 'time-space', citing that it is one entity. In that sense, there is no such thing as just the space, or just the time.. it is the same.. now.. how do we determine our distance from another point in spacetime? Simple.. (X1-X0)+(Y1-Y0)+(Z1-Z0)+(T1-T0).. lets simplify this by just stating dx+dy+dz+dt.. ok.. now lets try velocity...
velocity in the x coordinate.. dx/dt ok.. =)
velocity in the y coordinate.. dy/dt ok.. =)
velocity in the z coordinate.. dz/dt ok.. =]
velocity in the t coordinate.. dt/dt oh shit. =(
so one particle is moving through the t coordinate really fast, and the other isn't moving through t at all.. dx,dy,dz being equal, they are have the same velocity. riiight.
i say just elimate 't' as a whole.. makes things about as easy as can be imagined.. The problem is that the illusion of time is just so strong, so intuitive that we might just end up taking another 2000 years to break free of it. Think about how long people thought the earth was flat... why? Because it seemed like it was. The moon was round.. but it always presented itself to us with one face.. if that bastard was spinning just a little faster, man would have taken it for granted that the moon was a sphere, and would have given earth that same attribute..
I think we are just now starting to realize that there is something that just doesn't seem quite right with our universe..
>Seriously W-T-F
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>RULINGS LIKE THESE ARE DESTROYING THE F'N CHECKS >AND BALANCES SYSTEM
Clearly you are mistaken, the checks and balances have long been gone. I envy those who live abroad, and live in countries that are home to governments that actually work.
It's going to be a sad day in DC when the people of the United States have to exercise their second amendment rights to protect the few remaining rights they have. Honestly, the whole thing is bullshit nowadays.
The way our forefathers envisioned this country is a far cry from what it has become. Serving in our military is a duty of the citizens. Serving on a jury is the duty of the citizens. Holding an elected position... is a DUTY of the CITIZENS. Not a privilege. Elected officials do not become gods.. they are still people.. still citizens. When one citizen infringes upon the rights of another.. They get their ass THROWN IN JAIL!
Then we have the PRESIDENT.. the PRESIDENT.. lie under oath.. WTF!? I know someone who went away for 5 years because of perjury.. and it wasn't even that bad of a lie compared to what Willy did.
I'm sorry to say it, but the system is too broken to even attempt a fix. The fact is those who are hellbent on becoming government officials choose to do so early in life and then pursue that dream until it happens.. Why on earth are they going to limit their own powers in favor of preserving the freedom of the people?? Sensible term limits.. yeah right.. that will never happen.. A sensible term limit should be as follows...
1. Elected officials should be given 2 (pronounced TWO, and in no event to be equal or greater than three) years in office.
2.Once out of office, elected officials will not share any freedoms or immunities that any other citizen of the United States doesn't possess.
3. By public vote, an official can be tried at ANY point in time in a court of law, by a jury of citizens, to determine if the official is worthy of his or her position.
4. Any representative, president, etc who choses to defy the people of the United States, and abridges the rights of the people without due cause MUST stand trial. A vote shall be cast by any able voter nationwide. Should the representative(s) be found guilty of unjustly restricting the rights of the people.. the punishment will be a swift and merciful death at the hands of the armed populace. Removing the rights of another citizen, while a citizen, doesn't warrant the death penalty, however doing so as a trusted and elected official constitutes treason.
5. Any governmental branch that attempts to defer, downplay, or otherwise attempt to stifle such a call to trial by the people shall be immediately disempowered and rendered void. Officials in that branch must then stand trial as prisoners of war on the charge of treason. The punishment for treason is and has always been death.
This guideline will ensure that elected officials will try to make things better for the common folk.. because that is all they are, and they will be stripped of rank in two years anyways. Also only those with a sincere drive to better this country will pursue an office position. Those who have alternative goals, or who's actions are clouded by so called 'special-interest' groups who have no right to be in this country, should fear holding such a position.
I really hate to sound like a radical, especially since I do not consider myself one. I too dream of a world of peace and prosperity, but we are not trying very hard to achieve that goal. Don't blame that on our government, blame it on yourselves. Everyday of your life you should be thinking about how to make things right.. how to better our country. Most of us just sit quietly and let others make the decisions... I'm willing to bet most of you reading this don't even vote. And by vote I mean city, state, AND national. Upset that the courts overthrew this case against the DMCA? Pissed off that you weren't the judge on that case? Think you can do better? I think you can. I think we all can..
And to those in office... I know some of you listen, I've received email replies back.. but most of you ignore us, the people. Don't forget who put you in office.. and don't forget who has the right, as stated in the Constitution, to remove you and/or the entire government body from power. There is growing resentment amongst the people of this once great nation. In the past revolution has followed such events. Do not shrug this off, wake up and listen to your fellow countrymen...
-freya
I expect to be arrested by the feds tomorrow.. that's OK, i already called my employer.
Yeah yeah.. but listen to Bush next time.. honestly. If he doesn't mention god in his next speech at least 8 times.. it will be a new record for him. It is very apparent to the people of this country, and especially foreigners who are non-christian (i'm proudly non-christian, but i'm not anti-christian) that GWBush is trying to shove Christianity down the throats of the people. He is making it a point that 'We are good, they are evil, god will let us win' WHOOP-DEE-FOOKING-DOO.. i'm going to laugh my ass off when we fail at this war miserably.. and GWB has to explain why 'God' didn't bail us out.
>>I'm actually relieved that the government isn't doing exactly what the people tell it. A recent Gallup poll indicated that a majority favors requiring citizens of Arab descent to carry ID!! That is fucking scary.
WTF! You have to carry ID with you anyways.. at all time.. Puzzled? Ask your local law enforcement agency. But yes.. the poll just goes to show how stupid the average american is. People are ignorant of the laws. They have no idea what they are in for. The government keeps tightening the noose.. but they fail to realize that without the people, and their support.. the elected officials are nothing.
That is the point. There is nothing illegal about holding an armed protest. The very fact that the government would become 1) nervous, and 2) upset at the presence of such a gathering indicates that they KNOW they are doing the wrong thing, and that they probably have something to hide.
Telling these people to disperse and go home is a violation of our first amendment rights. Having the government say 'you can protest, but we need your guns' is a blantant disregard for our second amendment rights. If people stand their ground and refuse to give in to the tyranny of the government, what will happen? And if the government tries any type of violent act against these people gathered in peace, then a state of war against the government becomes valid. (see US constitution and bill of rights, etc) I personally would fire upon armed government officials if they were shooting into a group of peaceful protestors. I wouldn't even think twice about it. And if the government thinks they have a right to limit OUR freedom, without even letting US, the people have a say in it.. well they have another thing coming.
The point made earlier is valid, on all counts. There is no practical way that we the people can fix our government. The checks and balances placed into the system have failed, and failed miserably. We have the executive branch of the government now giving direct orders to the judicial branch.. knocking out the one last part of the government that I had faith could turn the situation around. (Bush telling DOJ to drop MS case for instance, hundreds of other instances though) The laws are all slanted in favor of the elected officials and big business. The welfare of the people is apparently being overlooked. Why would an elected official spend millions of dollars in an ad campaign, then come into office and then argue FOR sensible term limits?? Lets get real here people. Our government is not accountable for their actions any longer. It's downhill from here. Need proof? DMCA... SSSCA.. need i continue?
Fact is, the government cannot GIVE you rights.. they can only limit them or take them away. It is the job of the government to ensure the safety of the people under its care. This, unfortunately, involves limiting rights to some extent to keep law and order... but if it isn't broken, don't fix it. We've existed on our minimal set of laws for over 100 years and the country worked well.. people were happy.. the government then had to get creative with prohibition, strict gun laws, etc. This is not what America is about.
Amen on that one. None of us have the desire to be put on the 5 o'clock news as another foolish person to rush Capitol Hill, I can't think of a worse way to go.
However.. this country was founded on the premise that freedom is more important than life itself. I think it's high time we let the government understand this. They can call you to a draft, completely limit your freedoms, and possibly get you killed on foreign soil.. but that is the price of freedom. I accept that. What I will *NOT* tolerate is the fat pigs sitting on MY hard earned money deciding that they can limit my rights even further because of terrorist activity like this. Laws do not reduce crime, they create it. Criminals have no regard for the law. Laws only work if there is a swift, fair and efficient judicial system to back it up. Find that in America? Not today.
Just use the government's words against them. We need to hold an ARMED protest at the capitol, with no foul intent. Let them become nervous. Violate the new laws in a manner that does NOT jeopardize our country's security.. then when they use violence against you for a non-violent act, declare war on the system and elect a new government by force. It is the duty of the PEOPLE of this country to hold the government in check. If this country truly is governed by a government by the people, for the people... why does such a large portion of the people depise the institution?
I pray to the gods and powers that be.. that our government doesn't screw us over in this 'crusade' that Bush is launching. I'm not against the war, but he was VERY immature putting such a blatant Christian twist on things. More importantly, i *URGE* every citizen of this country that cares for his/her life, family, and friends to take a moment, even with your children, and read about this country's glorious first years. Read the written foundation that our forefathers laid down so many years ago.. and ask yourself if this is right.. is this what you want.. and what is your duty as an American.
well.. to be honest with you (I'll probably end up in Jail for openly discussing this solution, which may be in violation of the DMCA) i found a workaround..
Lets assume your number is 1-800-867-5309.. just dial it like this..
18008675309* or 18008675309# yup.. guess what.. new tone sequence.. deal with it. I assume that they will be promptly adding to their little opus now..
And technically, according to music laws, if you have, say, a really common bass line, and someone else uses it with a different Melody, you really can't claim anything... soo... sing along now
*whistle while you dial...*
-fc
i run a domain in the 63.110.x.x subnet, and this worm is particularly fierce here. I'm logging about 20 attempts per second at peak. Really bizarre.
The IP addresses that these are coming in from are quite varied and seem spread out across the country. Oh well.. maybe people will get a clue and just shut down all the IIS boxes.
I'm not stating that linux is better, it's just that people aren't wasting their time trying to bring down apache servers. I'm really thankful of the fact they haven't targeted apache yet.
As if anyone cares, my first 'hit' was from 63.110.157.49 at 0628 this morning. And yes, this thing is quite spammy.
Single molecule doesn't mean much at all. In fact many people don't realize that conventional Microprocessors are built upon a silicon substrate that is formed by taking thin slices from a relatively large cylinder of solid silicon. This cylinder is usually a foot wide, 2-5 feet long.. and is ONE MOLECULE. It is sliced into thin wafers and then printed with sometimes 1000 chips per wafer. The only thing that is noteworthy is the fact that this article states that the transistors are a micron wide. That, in reality, isn't much smaller than transistors in your P4 or Athlon. -freija
Yes, i'd be thrilled if the Linux CD for PS2 showed up on my doorstep tomorrow. I'd also be thrilled if the XBox comes out for $299 and Sony ships a free HDD/Ethernet upgrade to EVERY REGISTERED owner of the PS2, to make it a cost-competitive opponent to the X-Box and gain customer loyalty.. but lets face it.
IT HASN'T HAPPENED
We all know that linux WILL be ported to the PS2. It is inevitable. We all know there are HDD upgrades and broadband via USB or Firewire at the customer's discretion. This is all posted on Sony's website. Doesn't take a Sherlock to discover this.
I'm willing to bet the big fish at slashdot $1000 that they can't resist the temptation to post on this thread again until it actually happens. This thread has been rehashed what, 20 times in the last year here at Slashdot? Go back to the first posting of Linux/Playstation possibility, and tell me what has changed.
Not a damned thing.
-freija
Not completely true. If the government does something COMPLETELY irrational and blasphemous, it is a right.. scratch that.. the DUTY of the american people to get rid of such a 'government'.. so as long as the 2nd amendment is still intact, the american citizens will have the tools needed to perform this duty. Now, is such a revolution warranted over the DeCSS / DCMA / MPAA and RIAA issues we face today?
No.
It might not be feasible in THIS case, one day it will be though if the government doesn't cure it's cronic case of Rectal-Cranial Inversion.
-freija
The Justice League, God, Jesus, and Satan himself will also be siding with the EFF in this case to halt the DMCA's reign of terror. Yeah, right. I highly doubt anything will ever come with this. Call me a cynic, but ever since the DeCSS case, I've lost all faith in the government using common sense when working on technology oriented legislation.
Hey, don't lose faith in the US government. They don't always do things with the citizens' best interests at heart, but it is the best system we have. They might pass bills behind your back that slowly erode at your first amendment rights, such as the DCMA. Just have patience.
Point is, as an American, you have your second ammendment rights to help you protect the rights granted to you by the first ammendment. No need to fear such a government.
-freija
roflmao... EVERY post from this guy has scored -1. I think it is intentional. Maybe they should mod him up to 3 or 4 to piss him off =)
-freija
Yes, qouted from THEIR site. =) BTW, i have the file mirrored. If you want URL because you are having problems, email me. I don't want my humble domain to become another slashdot statistic. -freija
Yup, sad but true...m l
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/09/18/0339248.sht
-freija
It might be snowing on that planet. This brings up two interesting points.
Firstly, where did i put my ski equipment? I think there are some pretty cool mountains in that telescope image.
Now for the serious thing. Where do the scientists come up with ideas like that? Granted, i do have a few years of Chemical Engineering under my belt, but how could it be snowing? One would think that after all this time, that the system (weather) on Titan should be more or less at a steady state condition. It is too cold on Titan to allow for liquid water so the snow couldn't melt. It can't evaporate either since, according to scientists in the article, the atmosphere is 10 times thicker than here on earth. Snow isn't going to vaporize at 10atm. The last possibility is that strong winds could be picking snow up from the surface and lifting it to the atmosphere where it can rain down once more. This contrasts with another NASA article stating that the 'fog' on Titan is not turbulent, but dead still, this was stated to shut out theories that these 'bright' spots were merely weather phenomena like seen with Jupiter's Red Spot.
Anyone want to enlighten me or comment on this further, this article has me quite intrigued.
I don't think he was being immature. Think about it, the games have to support a left and right image, so the drivers are VERY similar to what is needed to drive 3d-LCD shutter glasses, technology that is what, at least 8 years old? NVidia based cards, even in the old TNT days, were capable of using glasses, and they work well, probably better than this new LCD-Flatpanel. I'm sure you have to be a certain distance from the screen, and not too far to either side. 3d shutter glasses do not have this limitation.
Secondly, i've seen this technology, it works.. but tilt your head so that one eye is higher than the other.. Byebye 3d. Another thing shutter glasses don't suffer.
Lastly, do you really need to shell out $1600 for a 17inch LCD just so you don't look geeky having to wear shutter glasses? Glasses costing $40 that work on 14" monitors, 21" monitors, anything as long as the refresh rate is good enough (120hz eliminates noticeable flicker).
My point? Where is the stereoscopic support in XFree? This isn't new technology, just a new device using the same tricks. One aspect of linux that i adore is the development community keeping old, obsolete hardware alive. But it's been a long time since stereoscopic OpenGL was developed, i doubt that because new monitors support it that we are going to suddenly see new drivers.
I personally think that our concept of "Time" is severely warped. I don't acknowledge it's existance at all, and as such the 'curvature of space-time' is a fallacy. Gravity doesn't 'warp' space-time because space-time doesn't exist. Everything is static, unchanging.
Take for instance the center of our universe, an apparently 3-Dimensional conglomeration of mass forming stars, planets, etc, all exerting a gravitational pull. If you spin a bucket full of water, the water will rise to the sides as it does here on earth. Relatively speaking, if the bucket was held still and the universe spun around it, would the same effect take place? If it does, does the water surface change instantly, or several thousand years later. If it happens instantly, one would have to acknowledge that gravity propagates through 'space-time' at hyper-relativistic speeds.
Slashdot.org, the DDoS of the GNU Generation.
I should claim that the 3-d array defined by a 320x240x256 containing (256)^76800 records is MY intellectual property and copyright the formula defining it, as it will contain ALL possible images in the 320x240 by 256 color domain. Thus i could merely plug in a value and get a still image from the movie "The Matrix" or better yet define a set of records to represent any and every movie ever conceived. Suddenly I own the rights to all video imagery.
Sure, it's absurd, but you know someone is going to try pulling something like that.
Slashdot.org, the DDoS of the GNU Generation.
You know they have a problem with math sometimes. I'd check to see that everything was in metric this time and that no units are getting confused. Probably something silly like that, silly until the probes come crashing back to earth.. wait!! that's it.. they are using the probes as new weapo ... thud..
It isn't so much "I'll believe it when I see it." as it is "I'll give a damn when it's supported in Linux" In defense of 3D Goggles, LCD Shutter glasses are fairly convincing at a high enough refresh rate and are not bulky like some VR goggles that are actually two small wearable LCD monitors. LCD glasses have been around for several years now and there still isn't a way to use them in linux, despite the fact that getting it to work shouldn't be that difficult. Maybe true 3d will be added to XFree86 servers once people start shelling out $4000+ for a 'layered LCD monitor' instead of $40 for LCD glasses. Then again, maybe not.