>it apparently breaks the rules on decaying into other particles.
If they are using collisions to observe the new particle, then the energy in the collision is being turned in to new matter, which can decay into other particles...
I thought that was normal.
Even if it isn't the expected particle, it must just mean that there is a reaction there that just wasn't seen previously... I doubt it's reall a "new" particle, hah!
>Won't it be nice when they finally figure out how to make EXCELLENT music algorithmically? And even better when we can dial that music to suit our own individual tastes?
And won't it be great when you'll have your own android to make love to you? It'll know exactly what your tastes are and everything.
What? That doesn't sound good?
Kidding aside, I think the coolest things I've ever felt were UNEXPECTED and came from points of view that I could only respond to as
"Wow! I NEVER would have imagined that!"
Otherwise, I suppose we could all climb into pods and let machines feed our brains the input they calculate will satisfy us.
I hope humanity never stops reaching, and I'm fairly certain that no amount of programming will ever be able to do that, at least not the same way...
I didn't mean to paint all professional programmers with the same brush. I understand what life is like in the trenches, believe me.
I was referring to the development team that coded IE, and have been suspected of writing it in such a way that it breaks standards solely to increase Microsoft's stranglehold.
A LOT of effort has gone one and does go on at Microsoft with the aim of trapping consumers instead of truly serving them.
I think any developer will see that for what it is when he's asked to contribute to it.
I imagine a lot of developers at Microsoft would also like to feel that way, but corporate cutthroat agendas being what they are, they cannot really "do the right thing".
Whereas in open-source, free (as in speech) software, it's encouraged.
It's hard to see where it will end, this development-with-social-consciousness, but considering we've had the soulless variety for so long, I say we give it a shot.
The Matrix morphed so slowly and gradually into something like Powerball Z or whatever it's called that I never actually realized I was watching manga until the climactic Neo vs Smith battle where they fought in the sky like characters in manga often do.
But it makes perfect sense in retrospect; the filmmakers even used a lot of japanese masters to help in the production, so there was already evidence the Wachowski brothers were heavily influenced by eastern arts.
>If your TV doesn't support them, then add a better TV to the list.
What about all the junk this "synergy" or "big-bang" is creating?
A lot of the electronic junk winds up in the third world where villagers use vats of toxic acids to separate the gold-plating out of the circuits.
The whole "My new model X doesn't have the slightly-faster/extra-tidbit/new-color-chassis, so I'll just get rid of it and buy a new one" mentality is REALLY going to ruin the ecology.
I sound like an old record (an old wax cylinder, actually), but older generations MADE DO with what they HAD, and even (*gasp*) got OFF the couch to change the channel.
Think of that a bit when you'll be trading in your still-functioning cell-phone for a newer one that has a camera...
>[...] what Microsoft wants, they are making companies hesitate in going to a broad Linux platform change while they wotk on their new licensing and integration plans
That can only work in favour of Linux; precisely because all these claims will progressively be proven false, Linux will emerge as the only operating system that is truly free, which CAN'T be said of Windows!
In fact, the way Microsoft's licensing is made, people are leaving them in droves; flat quarter after flat quarter, time is catching up with Microsoft, try as they might, how long before their layoffs begin?
They only succeed in confirming what everyone already knows; the day of closed-source, bug-bearing, exploit laced, restrictive, unethical software and business practices are OVER!
And even the bunch of them taking a bus on a tour won't change it; they only have one agenda, and (as usual) they are totally unable to hide it.
Mozart's first few concertos weren't that great either.
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>I'll bet [Ken Brown] dismisses the widely reported claim that Mozart wrote three symphonies and performed for the King of England when he was nine on the grounds that 9-year-olds don't normally do this sort of thing.
>We live in a climate and culture where someone selling a product stands a better chance of earning money than someone who gives something away for free. I imagine that a similar climate and culture has been present throughout most of the history of Taker mankind.
Yes. You're correct, but I wonder if we aren't harming ourselves by acting like this:
When you take money and apply it exclusively to commercialization, without using any for research, then you usually get poor innovation and stagnation.
When you take money and put it in applied research (research specifically directed at developing a specific product), you usually also get poor innovation and stagnation.
On the other hand, when you apply money to pure research without trying to force it into commercial applications, you usually get tremendous innovation and growth, and those usually spring up almost by accident.
So maybe always chasing the brass ring is harming us and we need to concentrate on developing operating systems purely so they can be the best they CAN be, without trying to hawk them.
It seems to me that free (as in speech) software has this as its goal, and that the quicker we realize it, the faster tributary economies can spring up around it and potentially dwarf anything Microsoft ever achieved.
In the end, the mindset might or might-not change, but we'll all be better off, in any case.
We live in a climate and culture where a young man like Bill Gates can become unimaginably rich by first buying someone else's work and fobbing it off on the public, but where people of vision like Daniel Robbins nearly loses everything he has trying to bring to the public a product that will benefit everyone.
Donate to Gentoo, I did, and even if I gave them $100 a year, it'd STILL be a much better deal than if I was able to get Windows for free, forever.
Cancelled meaning they are no longer producing new episodes.
Unless you know something I don't (entirely possible).
I know there were talks about some other network picking up the show, but I don't know what became of it.
I've bought the first three seasons on DVD, and this is AFTER downloading all the episodes on the Internet!
The DVDs have better picture quality, of course, and bonus material, most of which I loved the commentaries; it must be the best job in the world to work with that crew!
>Over the years I've seen dozens of examples where all of the Kings Techo-Geeks and all the Kings Men standing around a windows box with bad behaviour finally decide to backup what they can and re-install the damned thing because *nobody* can come up with a plausible explaination for what the heck is happening.
Worse, I've had to reinstall Windows simply because I installed one program out of sequence!
Just installing the programs resulted in a system that worked for normal (for Windows) periods of time, where installing the SAME applications in a different order caused Windows to bluescreen or reboot itself every 3-5 minutes!
And this has happened on systems belonging to others I know.
If it wasn't for the "compatibility" issues, most people would drop Windows in a heartbeat like the bloated crapware it is.
Of course, many will argue that users should have computer-science degrees to simply run their applications, but most of them are MS shills.
Only the articles I've read point towards William Randolph Hearst as being the one who used his publishing empire to demonize hemp because he feared it would ruin the value of his forestry (pulp & paper) holdings.
I didn't know Dupont figured in it. Do you have some info on that?
I read somewhere that growing hemp could cut down on deforestation because it can be used as a paper fibre, and that oil can also be extracted from it, like soy.
In my original post (which was a bit of a troll, I admit), I was really just using absurd humor to highlight what Microsoft is constantly doing:
Microsoft has always taken (even stolen) ideas from other and fobbed them off to the general public as being their invention.
Yet they decry this practice when it's their competitors doing it.
I keep thinking it must be a VERY special feeling to be wandering the halls at Microsoft these days; there is an unmistable scent of panic and death in the air, surely.
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>it apparently breaks the rules on decaying into other particles.
If they are using collisions to observe the new particle, then the energy in the collision is being turned in to new matter, which can decay into other particles...
I thought that was normal.
Even if it isn't the expected particle, it must just mean that there is a reaction there that just wasn't seen previously... I doubt it's reall a "new" particle, hah!
>Won't it be nice when they finally figure out how to make EXCELLENT music algorithmically? And even better when we can dial that music to suit our own individual tastes?
And won't it be great when you'll have your own android to make love to you? It'll know exactly what your tastes are and everything.
What? That doesn't sound good?
Kidding aside, I think the coolest things I've ever felt were UNEXPECTED and came from points of view that I could only respond to as
"Wow! I NEVER would have imagined that!"
Otherwise, I suppose we could all climb into pods and let machines feed our brains the input they calculate will satisfy us.
I hope humanity never stops reaching, and I'm fairly certain that no amount of programming will ever be able to do that, at least not the same way...
Sorry Eklypz,
I didn't mean to paint all professional programmers with the same brush. I understand what life is like in the trenches, believe me.
I was referring to the development team that coded IE, and have been suspected of writing it in such a way that it breaks standards solely to increase Microsoft's stranglehold.
A LOT of effort has gone one and does go on at Microsoft with the aim of trapping consumers instead of truly serving them.
I think any developer will see that for what it is when he's asked to contribute to it.
I imagine a lot of developers at Microsoft would also like to feel that way, but corporate cutthroat agendas being what they are, they cannot really "do the right thing".
Whereas in open-source, free (as in speech) software, it's encouraged.
It's hard to see where it will end, this development-with-social-consciousness, but considering we've had the soulless variety for so long, I say we give it a shot.
The Matrix morphed so slowly and gradually into something like Powerball Z or whatever it's called that I never actually realized I was watching manga until the climactic Neo vs Smith battle where they fought in the sky like characters in manga often do.
But it makes perfect sense in retrospect; the filmmakers even used a lot of japanese masters to help in the production, so there was already evidence the Wachowski brothers were heavily influenced by eastern arts.
>[Rule #1,] Spammers lie.
>Rule #2, nobody talks about - oh... nevermind.
>Rule #3, NO POOFTERS.
Rule #4, Profit!
>And where are they now? DEAD! Thats where!
;-)
OK, but until I see the study linking 'getting off the couch' to death, I'll reserve judgement.
>If your TV doesn't support them, then add a better TV to the list.
What about all the junk this "synergy" or "big-bang" is creating?
A lot of the electronic junk winds up in the third world where villagers use vats of toxic acids to separate the gold-plating out of the circuits.
The whole "My new model X doesn't have the slightly-faster/extra-tidbit/new-color-chassis, so I'll just get rid of it and buy a new one" mentality is REALLY going to ruin the ecology.
I sound like an old record (an old wax cylinder, actually), but older generations MADE DO with what they HAD, and even (*gasp*) got OFF the couch to change the channel.
Think of that a bit when you'll be trading in your still-functioning cell-phone for a newer one that has a camera...
>HEAD
>No wonder everything was for penis enlargement
Wonder if his friends call him "rickhead" when he's not around?
Oh, I forget, he's a spammer, he has no friends.
>If he accompanies his apology with a pound of flesh, I'll accept it.
I WANT SOME BLOOD MIXED IN WITH THE POUND OF FLESH!
We don't want this wastrel getting off on a technicality, do we?
>Spammers lie.
Rule #2, nobody talks about - oh... nevermind.
Read my blog! ;-)
www.wasteofyourtimeandmine.com
>[...] what Microsoft wants, they are making companies hesitate in going to a broad Linux platform change while they wotk on their new licensing and integration plans
That can only work in favour of Linux; precisely because all these claims will progressively be proven false, Linux will emerge as the only operating system that is truly free, which CAN'T be said of Windows!
In fact, the way Microsoft's licensing is made, people are leaving them in droves; flat quarter after flat quarter, time is catching up with Microsoft, try as they might, how long before their layoffs begin?
They only succeed in confirming what everyone already knows; the day of closed-source, bug-bearing, exploit laced, restrictive, unethical software and business practices are OVER!
And even the bunch of them taking a bus on a tour won't change it; they only have one agenda, and (as usual) they are totally unable to hide it.
Mozart's first few concertos weren't that great either.
>I'll bet [Ken Brown] dismisses the widely reported claim that Mozart wrote three symphonies and performed for the King of England when he was nine on the grounds that 9-year-olds don't normally do this sort of thing.
So Linus is a prodigy like Mozart?
Even MORE reasons to use Linux!
Thank you, Mr Tanenbaum.
>We live in a climate and culture where someone selling a product stands a better chance of earning money than someone who gives something away for free. I imagine that a similar climate and culture has been present throughout most of the history of Taker mankind.
Yes. You're correct, but I wonder if we aren't harming ourselves by acting like this:
When you take money and apply it exclusively to commercialization, without using any for research, then you usually get poor innovation and stagnation.
When you take money and put it in applied research (research specifically directed at developing a specific product), you usually also get poor innovation and stagnation.
On the other hand, when you apply money to pure research without trying to force it into commercial applications, you usually get tremendous innovation and growth, and those usually spring up almost by accident.
So maybe always chasing the brass ring is harming us and we need to concentrate on developing operating systems purely so they can be the best they CAN be, without trying to hawk them.
It seems to me that free (as in speech) software has this as its goal, and that the quicker we realize it, the faster tributary economies can spring up around it and potentially dwarf anything Microsoft ever achieved.
In the end, the mindset might or might-not change, but we'll all be better off, in any case.
We live in a climate and culture where a young man like Bill Gates can become unimaginably rich by first buying someone else's work and fobbing it off on the public, but where people of vision like Daniel Robbins nearly loses everything he has trying to bring to the public a product that will benefit everyone.
Donate to Gentoo, I did, and even if I gave them $100 a year, it'd STILL be a much better deal than if I was able to get Windows for free, forever.
Cancelled meaning they are no longer producing new episodes.
Unless you know something I don't (entirely possible).
I know there were talks about some other network picking up the show, but I don't know what became of it.
I've bought the first three seasons on DVD, and this is AFTER downloading all the episodes on the Internet!
The DVDs have better picture quality, of course, and bonus material, most of which I loved the commentaries; it must be the best job in the world to work with that crew!
And it got cancelled. Typical.
If the creators of Futurama decided to strike out on their own and sell episodes of the show on the Internet, I'd definitely buy them.
I can only hope.
>Over the years I've seen dozens of examples where all of the Kings Techo-Geeks and all the Kings Men standing around a windows box with bad behaviour finally decide to backup what they can and re-install the damned thing because *nobody* can come up with a plausible explaination for what the heck is happening.
Worse, I've had to reinstall Windows simply because I installed one program out of sequence!
Just installing the programs resulted in a system that worked for normal (for Windows) periods of time, where installing the SAME applications in a different order caused Windows to bluescreen or reboot itself every 3-5 minutes!
And this has happened on systems belonging to others I know.
If it wasn't for the "compatibility" issues, most people would drop Windows in a heartbeat like the bloated crapware it is.
Of course, many will argue that users should have computer-science degrees to simply run their applications, but most of them are MS shills.
>>The only serious mechanism for social change is the death of the powerful.
>I live in the U.S. where we have elections, you insensitive clod!
Which means that if you are in the running, you can use your connections to steal the job...
I fail to see the point you were trying to make.
Right you are, Zebbers,
Only the articles I've read point towards William Randolph Hearst as being the one who used his publishing empire to demonize hemp because he feared it would ruin the value of his forestry (pulp & paper) holdings.
I didn't know Dupont figured in it.
Do you have some info on that?
I read somewhere that growing hemp could cut down on deforestation because it can be used as a paper fibre, and that oil can also be extracted from it, like soy.
So why not hemp-oil for cars?
What if there are black holes being formed constantly, appearing in pen space even WITHOUT there having been a star there?
The universe could be collapsing, with black holes appearing faster and faster, exponentially more and more of them.
Well, I for one welcome our new black hole overlords.
I get what you're saying.
In my original post (which was a bit of a troll, I admit), I was really just using absurd humor to highlight what Microsoft is constantly doing:
Microsoft has always taken (even stolen) ideas from other and fobbed them off to the general public as being their invention.
Yet they decry this practice when it's their competitors doing it.
I keep thinking it must be a VERY special feeling to be wandering the halls at Microsoft these days; there is an unmistable scent of panic and death in the air, surely.