Right, because the slashdot poster definitely understands the details of the physics publication in a peer-reviewed physics journal, written by experts in the field, and can clearly question its validity in the three seconds it takes to read a slashdot summary.
Here's an idea, instead of immediately trying to show how smart you are by posting minutes after an article goes up just to say "this is dumb", have a little faith in the scientific publication process and actually read the (original, peer-reviewed) article before you jump to conclusions.
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Well, the tubes are often made of glass, and vigorous shaking will crack them. Then, water rushes into the tubes and the poker chips float up while the racing horses drown, clogging up the internets. It's pandemonium, I tell ya. If only the internet was a big truck...
Not to pick nits, but parallels cannot run on a power mac. Power mac's are all powerpc machines - hence the "power" in their name. Apple has dropped the power monicker from all their product lines - the high end desktop mac is now known as "mac pro".
I can always tell my cell phone is gonna ring because I start to hear sort of chirping noises from nearby speakers. This happens on the speakers in my car stereo, my macbook's speakers, tv speakers, and the speakers on my desktop. FWIW, the service is cingular. I also noticed this bigtime with nextel phones in the past.
You're arguing nomenclature that's standard in just about every quantum mechanics course taught in the world. You're arguing nomenclature that was established by the fathers of quantum physics. At this point, it's accepted terminology and you aren't gonna change it. An observation is the same as a measurement is the same as an interaction that can be represented mathematically via an operator. Get over it.
I'm glad someone said it! Shrodinger's cat is an analogy to describe the "collapse of the wavefunction" principle, and not heisenberg uncertainty. It's not that you don't know which state the cat is in - it's that it is in both states until it's observed. I'm sure you knew this already, and hence the clever comment - but it's worth explaining for those who constantly misuse the analogy.
Uh, that's the whole point of it being a LIVE CD... your computer gets fucked up, you're a reboot away from a complete restoration. Of course, you still risk having your saved files and whatnot deleted, but that's not the point of the "freedom disk" idea.
oh my god, a website used the word "ass"! Someone quick call the FCC, we gotta censor this disgusting abuse of free speech! Oh the horrors, that some young mind might be exposed to the word "ass".
And now we return you to your regularly scheduled graphic violence - just make sure no one says a four letter word or shows a titty.
Redundant? never mind the fact that there was only one other reply to this thread when I posted my response - yet somehow I'm the redundant one. Slashdot mods, suck my balls.
OK, then - you can drive a truck without headlights. Sure, it's not legal to drive it on the road, but you can still use it to carry things around a farm, or plow a driveway. I guess all trucks should be sold without headlights.
The argument that a computer is usable without an OS is completely retarded - if you want your computer to have an OS different from the one HP includes installed, buy it from one of a hundred other dealers, or build it yourself.
Are you on crack? You want them to enable locatedb and its resource and hard drive usage, for the 0.02% of people who are actually going to use it? The stuff people actually CARE ABOUT "just works". You linux nerds to get it into your head that Apple is not selling you a unix system. They are selling you a system that uses unix tools and foundations to provide a solid gui desktop experience. I switched to mac os because it has the capability to do the things I want it to do, while having a nice slick graphical interface, and having my hardware "just work". Expecting locatedb to be set up out of the box is like expecting X with KDE to be working - it's just not their target audience. Do you bitch and moan that you had to install xcode to get a compiler too?
Hell, I much prefer Keynote to powerpoint, and pages is coming along nicely. I'd much rather use openoffice than ms word, and back in the day I preferred wordperfect. In fact, IMO the only MS office program worth using is excel, and that's only because I've never really played with any other spreadsheets.
Just to clarify for those who, like me, find that name incredibly easy to confuse with the intel "xeon" processors... "xenon" is a multi-core powerpc-based chip.
Yeah, after your subsequent explanations and a couple re-readings of your original post, I realized what you were trying to say - so I apologize for being overly harsh. Still, I think you'd be better served sticking with the boyuant force argument and not the "chop the iceberg in half" argument for future clarity;)
People lose windshields to rocks falling off of semis and the like every day. That is why this is a stupid idea.
Right... I've been driving cars for ten years, and never once had to replace a windshield. I've been wearing glasses far longer and replace them, on average, every 1-2 years. That is why putting a display in my glasses is a stupid idea.
Thad Starner, formerly of MIT and now at Georgia Tech has been using a wearable computer with a display built into his glasses for YEARS. This is NOT a new idea. It wasn't a new idea a month ago when slashdot posted an article from another company doing the same thing, and it won't be a new idea a month from now when they post an article about ANOTHER company developing the same thing. Problem is, none of these things ever actually comes to market, so you get a bunch of people reinventing the wheel and no one actually mass producing it.
Wow, way to tack a COMPLETELY UNRELATED comment onto mine, since it's near the top of the discussion, and hope for an easy chance at higher moderation.
I made no arguments for or against global warming - I made a simple statement about the physics of ice melting.
And wow, you learned that electrical fields affect the motion of particles while studying particle physics, did you? I learned it in high school with everyone else. And you BELIEVE that Earth's magnetic field shields us from radiation? Why, that's dandy, considering the fact that scientists know this to be the case. For someone who supposedly has done "a lot of research on the side" about this stuff, you sure don't seem to have a clue as to what OTHER people already know.
But please, don't let that stop you from playing the game that every political website with an agenda plays, linking a bunch of articles trying to lead people towards one conclusion, while making no genuine connection between said articles. Nice touch with the not-so-subtle "I don't know the answer, but I'll ask a bunch of hypothetical questions that lead you towards my own foregone conclusion" routine.
Not really - he said something contrived and roundabout, that could be interpreted multiple ways. There are much simpler and more elegant ways to state the underlying physics without making goofy arguments about this term balancing that term.
How does this get modded insightful? Have you EVER heard how buoyancy works? This is high school physics stuff, people - a floating object displaces exactly the same amount of liquid as it weighs - a floating ice cube that weighs a gram, displaces exactly one gram of water. It sticks up out of the water however much it needs to make this happen. When it melts, the gram of ice cube becomes a gram of water, which now changes the water level by exactly ZERO.
Of course, in real life there are very subtle points about salinity to take into question - but the way the parent post was worded shows a clear and simple misunderstanding of the physics involved, and it always makes me cringe to see such crap modded up.
Then again, the real world question is not the ice that's floating, but the ice that's supported by land - this is the stuff that's going to run off into the oceans and change the water levels. I'll leave it to the climatologists to argue how much.
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Right, because the slashdot poster definitely understands the details of the physics publication in a peer-reviewed physics journal, written by experts in the field, and can clearly question its validity in the three seconds it takes to read a slashdot summary.
Here's an idea, instead of immediately trying to show how smart you are by posting minutes after an article goes up just to say "this is dumb", have a little faith in the scientific publication process and actually read the (original, peer-reviewed) article before you jump to conclusions.
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As long as it wasn't a big truck...
Well, the tubes are often made of glass, and vigorous shaking will crack them. Then, water rushes into the tubes and the poker chips float up while the racing horses drown, clogging up the internets. It's pandemonium, I tell ya. If only the internet was a big truck...
Not to pick nits, but parallels cannot run on a power mac. Power mac's are all powerpc machines - hence the "power" in their name. Apple has dropped the power monicker from all their product lines - the high end desktop mac is now known as "mac pro".
I can always tell my cell phone is gonna ring because I start to hear sort of chirping noises from nearby speakers. This happens on the speakers in my car stereo, my macbook's speakers, tv speakers, and the speakers on my desktop. FWIW, the service is cingular. I also noticed this bigtime with nextel phones in the past.
You're arguing nomenclature that's standard in just about every quantum mechanics course taught in the world. You're arguing nomenclature that was established by the fathers of quantum physics. At this point, it's accepted terminology and you aren't gonna change it. An observation is the same as a measurement is the same as an interaction that can be represented mathematically via an operator. Get over it.
I'm glad someone said it! Shrodinger's cat is an analogy to describe the "collapse of the wavefunction" principle, and not heisenberg uncertainty. It's not that you don't know which state the cat is in - it's that it is in both states until it's observed. I'm sure you knew this already, and hence the clever comment - but it's worth explaining for those who constantly misuse the analogy.
you expect logic from corporate IT departments?
big shocker - a bunch of dickwad corporate twits complain, and everyone on the planet suffers for it.
Uh, that's the whole point of it being a LIVE CD... your computer gets fucked up, you're a reboot away from a complete restoration. Of course, you still risk having your saved files and whatnot deleted, but that's not the point of the "freedom disk" idea.
oh my god, a website used the word "ass"! Someone quick call the FCC, we gotta censor this disgusting abuse of free speech! Oh the horrors, that some young mind might be exposed to the word "ass".
And now we return you to your regularly scheduled graphic violence - just make sure no one says a four letter word or shows a titty.
Redundant? never mind the fact that there was only one other reply to this thread when I posted my response - yet somehow I'm the redundant one. Slashdot mods, suck my balls.
OK, then - you can drive a truck without headlights. Sure, it's not legal to drive it on the road, but you can still use it to carry things around a farm, or plow a driveway. I guess all trucks should be sold without headlights.
The argument that a computer is usable without an OS is completely retarded - if you want your computer to have an OS different from the one HP includes installed, buy it from one of a hundred other dealers, or build it yourself.
Right, and since mechanics can install a transmission in their own car, all cars should be sold without transmissions, too.
Are you on crack? You want them to enable locatedb and its resource and hard drive usage, for the 0.02% of people who are actually going to use it? The stuff people actually CARE ABOUT "just works". You linux nerds to get it into your head that Apple is not selling you a unix system. They are selling you a system that uses unix tools and foundations to provide a solid gui desktop experience. I switched to mac os because it has the capability to do the things I want it to do, while having a nice slick graphical interface, and having my hardware "just work". Expecting locatedb to be set up out of the box is like expecting X with KDE to be working - it's just not their target audience. Do you bitch and moan that you had to install xcode to get a compiler too?
Hell, I much prefer Keynote to powerpoint, and pages is coming along nicely. I'd much rather use openoffice than ms word, and back in the day I preferred wordperfect. In fact, IMO the only MS office program worth using is excel, and that's only because I've never really played with any other spreadsheets.
Yeah, I was mostly trying to point out how silly the GP's argument is. I guess sarcasm doesn't translate well to text.
Just to clarify for those who, like me, find that name incredibly easy to confuse with the intel "xeon" processors... "xenon" is a multi-core powerpc-based chip.
Yeah, after your subsequent explanations and a couple re-readings of your original post, I realized what you were trying to say - so I apologize for being overly harsh. Still, I think you'd be better served sticking with the boyuant force argument and not the "chop the iceberg in half" argument for future clarity ;)
People lose windshields to rocks falling off of semis and the like every day. That is why this is a stupid idea.
Right... I've been driving cars for ten years, and never once had to replace a windshield. I've been wearing glasses far longer and replace them, on average, every 1-2 years. That is why putting a display in my glasses is a stupid idea.
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Thad Starner, formerly of MIT and now at Georgia Tech has been using a wearable computer with a display built into his glasses for YEARS. This is NOT a new idea. It wasn't a new idea a month ago when slashdot posted an article from another company doing the same thing, and it won't be a new idea a month from now when they post an article about ANOTHER company developing the same thing. Problem is, none of these things ever actually comes to market, so you get a bunch of people reinventing the wheel and no one actually mass producing it.
Wow, way to tack a COMPLETELY UNRELATED comment onto mine, since it's near the top of the discussion, and hope for an easy chance at higher moderation.
I made no arguments for or against global warming - I made a simple statement about the physics of ice melting.
And wow, you learned that electrical fields affect the motion of particles while studying particle physics, did you? I learned it in high school with everyone else. And you BELIEVE that Earth's magnetic field shields us from radiation? Why, that's dandy, considering the fact that scientists know this to be the case. For someone who supposedly has done "a lot of research on the side" about this stuff, you sure don't seem to have a clue as to what OTHER people already know.
But please, don't let that stop you from playing the game that every political website with an agenda plays, linking a bunch of articles trying to lead people towards one conclusion, while making no genuine connection between said articles. Nice touch with the not-so-subtle "I don't know the answer, but I'll ask a bunch of hypothetical questions that lead you towards my own foregone conclusion" routine.
Not really - he said something contrived and roundabout, that could be interpreted multiple ways. There are much simpler and more elegant ways to state the underlying physics without making goofy arguments about this term balancing that term.
How does this get modded insightful? Have you EVER heard how buoyancy works? This is high school physics stuff, people - a floating object displaces exactly the same amount of liquid as it weighs - a floating ice cube that weighs a gram, displaces exactly one gram of water. It sticks up out of the water however much it needs to make this happen. When it melts, the gram of ice cube becomes a gram of water, which now changes the water level by exactly ZERO.
Of course, in real life there are very subtle points about salinity to take into question - but the way the parent post was worded shows a clear and simple misunderstanding of the physics involved, and it always makes me cringe to see such crap modded up.
Then again, the real world question is not the ice that's floating, but the ice that's supported by land - this is the stuff that's going to run off into the oceans and change the water levels. I'll leave it to the climatologists to argue how much.