Quantum is a theory, based on completely counter-intuitive postulates, which predicts completely ludicrous sounding experimental results, many years before we are technologically advanced enough to carry out the experiments. NO other theory has ever come close to the impact of quantum physics - to not only explain these really strange results, but to predict them many years before they could be tested. Einstein considered many of his thought experiments to be a way to show that quantum physics was an incomplete theory - in reality his papers would be the foundation for proving that quantum IS, in fact, the most successful theory in history.
Which would be a great argument - if fuel cells worked by burning hydrogen in some sort of internal combustion engine. Which, of course, they do not. Insightful my ass.
That should read, the currently prevailing theory says there's no center of the universe. For a scientist in training you sure do speak in absolutes. Perhaps when your training is finished you'll learn the concept of a THEORY.
You can also get some indication of direction of travel through the cosmic microwave background. Astrophysics is not the same as cosmology.
Biggest problem with adium and other os x clients is their lousy webcam and audio support. A nice feature of yahoo messenger on windows is the fact that you can start an audio conference and have many people using mic's and cams to talk together. You can do this with ichat if all your friends have macs and isights, but yahoo's setup is much more flexible - allowing one person to have up to 30 viewers on the cam, and allowing a conference full of people to take turns talking on mic.
/. moderation is (intentionally) broken - people get no karma for funny mods. Because of that, moderators sometimes use insigtful or informative to mod up a funny post, so the poster gets some karma.
There are lots of crimes that take money away from someone, but don't classify as theft. Fraud is fraud, not stealing. Embezzlement is not stealing either. There are specific terms that refer to these things. Just because it's "like" stealing doesn't make it stealing. Manslaughter is not the same as murder, but in both cases someone dies.
Firing a gun straight up in the air is illegal... it's still dangerous but because no one was directly hurt the penatly is much less than if the gun were fired directly at a person.
Stealing music directly negatively impacts a busines. Sharing music may or may not impact the business, and in fact might actually INCREASE the money made by the artist, the one who truly deserves to be profiting from his or her hard work.
IT IS NOT STEALING. When will you people get this through your thick skulls and stop believing the propaganda? Copyright infringement is a crime, but it is NOT theft. If it was theft, they wouldn't have to invent a whole new category to call it. To steal something, you have to gain what another person loses - you steal a car, someone loses a car and you gain a car. Copyright infringement is NOT stealing. You can tell, because due to the lobbying of these assholes the penalties for copyright infringement are WORSE than the penalties for genuine stealing.
Absolute fluff? Don't you mean intuitive and simple? The whole POINT of the ipod interface is that it doesn't have a lot of buttons and it's very natural to use. Would you prefer maybe clicking up or down on the wheel a bunch of times to select each number in a combination? A combination lock is the simplest and most logical way to use the interface of the ipod to implement a locking mechanism.
If you think a 700 meg xvid has the same quality of a DVD, you must be watching it on a 12 inch screen. If not... I have a lovely bridge you might be interested in... bargain price!
If you want smaller than a mini, get a shuffle or some other stick-of-gum sized player.
The whole point of the mini is, it's the smallest you can go and still retain the excellent ipod touch wheel interface. THAT's why people buy a lot of them. Small enough to pocket but still containing the interface that keeps apple dominating the market.
I love how I'm being modded troll on this one. I'm a troll because I said MS office docs dont open well in OO and I need that for my job? Wow... just wow. Get a fucking life you twats, does it really ruin your day THAT much when someone dares to say a microsoft product might be neccesary in some person's life?
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Quantum is a theory, based on completely counter-intuitive postulates, which predicts completely ludicrous sounding experimental results, many years before we are technologically advanced enough to carry out the experiments. NO other theory has ever come close to the impact of quantum physics - to not only explain these really strange results, but to predict them many years before they could be tested. Einstein considered many of his thought experiments to be a way to show that quantum physics was an incomplete theory - in reality his papers would be the foundation for proving that quantum IS, in fact, the most successful theory in history.
"Maybe third if you count the mac's?"
Why, exactly, would you have any reason to NOT count the macs? OS X is sure as hell more of a desktop OS than linux.
Yeah I got a free shuffle through the pyramid scheme sites - I love it.
Which would be a great argument - if fuel cells worked by burning hydrogen in some sort of internal combustion engine. Which, of course, they do not. Insightful my ass.
Robots are here to protect us. Please go stand by your stairs, so they can protect you. Grandma is protected at the bottom of the stairs.
That should read, the currently prevailing theory says there's no center of the universe. For a scientist in training you sure do speak in absolutes. Perhaps when your training is finished you'll learn the concept of a THEORY.
You can also get some indication of direction of travel through the cosmic microwave background. Astrophysics is not the same as cosmology.
Biggest problem with adium and other os x clients is their lousy webcam and audio support. A nice feature of yahoo messenger on windows is the fact that you can start an audio conference and have many people using mic's and cams to talk together. You can do this with ichat if all your friends have macs and isights, but yahoo's setup is much more flexible - allowing one person to have up to 30 viewers on the cam, and allowing a conference full of people to take turns talking on mic.
/. moderation is (intentionally) broken - people get no karma for funny mods. Because of that, moderators sometimes use insigtful or informative to mod up a funny post, so the poster gets some karma.
damn it, I have to get this retro computer nerd a girlfriend before I can leap out!
There are lots of crimes that take money away from someone, but don't classify as theft. Fraud is fraud, not stealing. Embezzlement is not stealing either. There are specific terms that refer to these things. Just because it's "like" stealing doesn't make it stealing. Manslaughter is not the same as murder, but in both cases someone dies.
Firing a gun straight up in the air is illegal... it's still dangerous but because no one was directly hurt the penatly is much less than if the gun were fired directly at a person.
Stealing music directly negatively impacts a busines. Sharing music may or may not impact the business, and in fact might actually INCREASE the money made by the artist, the one who truly deserves to be profiting from his or her hard work.
IT IS NOT STEALING. When will you people get this through your thick skulls and stop believing the propaganda? Copyright infringement is a crime, but it is NOT theft. If it was theft, they wouldn't have to invent a whole new category to call it. To steal something, you have to gain what another person loses - you steal a car, someone loses a car and you gain a car. Copyright infringement is NOT stealing. You can tell, because due to the lobbying of these assholes the penalties for copyright infringement are WORSE than the penalties for genuine stealing.
only on slashdot would you get modded insightful for quoting comic books.
Insightful? The mini was the highest-selling ipod, so apparantly not many people shared your outlook.
Absolute fluff? Don't you mean intuitive and simple? The whole POINT of the ipod interface is that it doesn't have a lot of buttons and it's very natural to use. Would you prefer maybe clicking up or down on the wheel a bunch of times to select each number in a combination? A combination lock is the simplest and most logical way to use the interface of the ipod to implement a locking mechanism.
Near perfect isn't the same as perfect... why spend all that money on an expensive flat screen to watch heavily compressed movies?
And mods, lick my nuts... nothing overrated or redundant here, you fuckwad little fanboys.
maybe your eye just isn't as picky as mine.
If you think a 700 meg xvid has the same quality of a DVD, you must be watching it on a 12 inch screen. If not... I have a lovely bridge you might be interested in... bargain price!
no, you click the build button in xcode :-P
instead of people being smart enough to keep their landlines around for emergencies, we have this insane stuff going on now.
Yeah, so everyone should pay 30 bucks a month to maintain a local landline that they never use, JUST IN CASE there's an emergency?
at least throw out the link
If you want smaller than a mini, get a shuffle or some other stick-of-gum sized player.
The whole point of the mini is, it's the smallest you can go and still retain the excellent ipod touch wheel interface. THAT's why people buy a lot of them. Small enough to pocket but still containing the interface that keeps apple dominating the market.
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The broken link has been fixed. Thanks for being our first users!
I love how I'm being modded troll on this one. I'm a troll because I said MS office docs dont open well in OO and I need that for my job? Wow... just wow. Get a fucking life you twats, does it really ruin your day THAT much when someone dares to say a microsoft product might be neccesary in some person's life?
I thought it stood for People for the Eating of Tasty Animals