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> God forbid anyone ever try and read the silmarillion.
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Actually, i have tried a few times - but always seemed to black out. All I can remember is some sort of historic summary, that goes like:
18xx - King Foo does Bar
19xx - King Foo dies
20xx - Elf X does Y
and so on and so on...
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> For one thing, proving that there may be no theory that explains everything strikes me as very difficult to prove.
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Well, according to Hawkings, a theory can *never* be proven. Rather, observation either agree with the predictions that the theory made, and the belief in the theory increases, or observation disagrees with the theory, causing belief in the theory to decrease.
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> Any non-flip-flopping scientist isn't a scientist at all. If your theory is disproven, you discard it. Physics isn't theology or politics.
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Exactly.
Yeah, thanks... I got the 'grandfather paradox', and even the concept of the fact that you doing something in the past will not retro-actively change the future as well (paradox free time travel). I just failed on all the 'quantum mechanics' and 'postselection' etc. stuff... That is, I understand the concepts that make this work, just not the individual mechanisms that make up the solution.
Mathematically speaking, it makes little sense to say the "correctness" of the Boltzmann equation
Hrm. And I always was under the impression that an equation, like 'a+b=c' could be proven correct or not. Oh well, guess that proves that I should have payed more attention at school then.
So, like, in other words, they have 'proven' the correctness of the Boltzmann equation, or at the very least, made the correctness of the Boltzmann equation more probable, rather than 'solved' it ?
Yeah, Im sorry that I got Judaism (the religion) mixed up with Jewish (the ethnicity), as another poster kindly pointed out. Guess that implies that I really don't care what ethnicity you are or what religion you have, whatsoever.:P
Why should a book be good just because it's a diary of someone who died in a war?
Well, in all fairness, she didn't 'just' die in a war, she is an example of one of the millions of *civilians* that got slaughtered, based solely on religion.
Thanks, that kind reply really means a lot to me. But my guess is that it's not really the subject matter per se that is complicated for me here ; rather, I believe it's my poor grasp of the English language that is the problem. Stating that "... The case was not sealed like so many settled cases... " at the top of your article falsely led me to believe that this case was also settled - just not sealed.
Well correct me if im wrong here, but why is a so called 'settled case' a victory ? Doesn't this simply mean that there will be no precedent ? Why is that a victory ?
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> God forbid anyone ever try and read the silmarillion.
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Actually, i have tried a few times - but always seemed to black out. All I can remember is some sort of historic summary, that goes like
18xx - King Foo does Bar
19xx - King Foo dies
20xx - Elf X does Y
and so on and so on
>
> For one thing, proving that there may be no theory that explains everything strikes me as very difficult to prove.
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Well, according to Hawkings, a theory can *never* be proven. Rather, observation either agree with the predictions that the theory made, and the belief in the theory increases, or observation disagrees with the theory, causing belief in the theory to decrease.
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> Any non-flip-flopping scientist isn't a scientist at all. If your theory is disproven, you discard it. Physics isn't theology or politics.
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Exactly.
... When will we see implantations of this in Linux, *BSD, and, even, commercial Unix flavors ?
Yeah, thanks... I got the 'grandfather paradox', and even the concept of the fact that you doing something in the past will not retro-actively change the future as well (paradox free time travel). I just failed on all the 'quantum mechanics' and 'postselection' etc. stuff... That is, I understand the concepts that make this work, just not the individual mechanisms that make up the solution.
Well you lost me right after 'the grandfather paradox'. I even read the article and I *still* don't understand. Is there a summary for dummies ?
Sounds like this might qualify: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ns_(simulator)
Mathematically speaking, it makes little sense to say the "correctness" of the Boltzmann equation
Hrm. And I always was under the impression that an equation, like 'a+b=c' could be proven correct or not. Oh well, guess that proves that I should have payed more attention at school then.
So, like, in other words, they have 'proven' the correctness of the Boltzmann equation, or at the very least, made the correctness of the Boltzmann equation more probable, rather than 'solved' it ?
Next thing you know, they'll be dropping support for my MSDOS systems too!
Trusted AIX ?
yes, the smiley *does* make you more retarded. :P
Religion had nothing to do with it.
Yeah, Im sorry that I got Judaism (the religion) mixed up with Jewish (the ethnicity), as another poster kindly pointed out. Guess that implies that I really don't care what ethnicity you are or what religion you have, whatsoever. :P
The religion is Judaism. The ethnicity is Jewish.
Ah. Thank you very much. Guess I need to go and study my English lessons now. :P
(Would mod parent up if I could)
She and others like her were killed because of race, not religion.
Oh Im sorry, I was under the impression that 'Jewism' was a religion, and not a race. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
Why should a book be good just because it's a diary of someone who died in a war?
Well, in all fairness, she didn't 'just' die in a war, she is an example of one of the millions of *civilians* that got slaughtered, based solely on religion.
Yeah, you fixed that for me. Guess that the financers are the real root cause here... Thanks.
The bloody botnet operator's and malware author's ? Isn't this like fighting the symptoms instead of the cause ?
But does it get you *drunk* ?
Thanks, that kind reply really means a lot to me. But my guess is that it's not really the subject matter per se that is complicated for me here ; rather, I believe it's my poor grasp of the English language that is the problem. Stating that " ... The case was not sealed like so many settled cases ... " at the top of your article falsely led me to believe that this case was also settled - just not sealed.
.. And fucked up big time ... :(
Well correct me if im wrong here, but why is a so called 'settled case' a victory ? Doesn't this simply mean that there will be no precedent ? Why is that a victory ?
Archos 'officially' releases the open-source Special Developer Edition firmware... but installing it voids the warranty ?
Hehe, you totally missed the article there, buddy =)
Crap. Totally posted the comment on the wrong f*ck*ng article. Make mental note: Must stop drinking and slashdotting at the same time...
Archos 'officially' releases the open-source Special Developer Edition firmware... but installing it voids the warranty ?