Some "experts" need to be reminded that once upon a time someone wrote a very special paper, also widely denounced, also widely refuted for a while. And that person wasn't a department head at a prestigous university, nor was he being funded by wealthy patrons to run his own lab. He worked at a patent office.
He also had a PhD, did theory and therefore didn't really need a lab, and was most certainly not someone you can reference in this context. His papers were important because they HAD mathematical foundations worked out, and were't just philosophical ramblings.
I hate to break it to you, but until you understand the math and physics behind our current theories, it doesn't make sense to make up new ones. He may be getting some press, but that doesn't mean much.
The public computer labs in my university already do this. They dual boot windows and mandrake, but I see more people who just log into KDE rather than reboot into windows.
RMS wasn't entirely wrong when talking about building particle accelerators in space to use the free vacuum. While they mighn't be building any particle accelerators, there are other plans to build extensive research projects in space exactly because of this free vacuum. LIGO, a project ongoing in the united states to detect gravity waves has 4 kilometer long vacuum tunnels in it's experimental setup, and one of the major problems they face is the need for a vacuum inside these tunnels. There are plans to create a gravity wave detector in space for the very reason of free vacuum.
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Some "experts" need to be reminded that once upon a time someone wrote a very special paper, also widely denounced, also widely refuted for a while. And that person wasn't a department head at a prestigous university, nor was he being funded by wealthy patrons to run his own lab. He worked at a patent office.
He also had a PhD, did theory and therefore didn't really need a lab, and was most certainly not someone you can reference in this context. His papers were important because they HAD mathematical foundations worked out, and were't just philosophical ramblings.
I hate to break it to you, but until you understand the math and physics behind our current theories, it doesn't make sense to make up new ones. He may be getting some press, but that doesn't mean much.
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The public computer labs in my university already do this. They dual boot windows and mandrake, but I see more people who just log into KDE rather than reboot into windows.
pmj
Just to point something out...
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RMS wasn't entirely wrong when talking about building particle accelerators in space to use the free vacuum. While they mighn't be building any particle accelerators, there are other plans to build extensive research projects in space exactly because of this free vacuum. LIGO, a project ongoing in the united states to detect gravity waves has 4 kilometer long vacuum tunnels in it's experimental setup, and one of the major problems they face is the need for a vacuum inside these tunnels. There are plans to create a gravity wave detector in space for the very reason of free vacuum.
So, RMS isn't totally retarded.
pmj.