They made that bet decades ago. You think he still wants Penthouse? It's all hardcore jizz shots now. I think the hard-hitting* journalism has taken a backseat* to poon at this point.
And offtoptic, but I have to mention it. Why, since a month or so ago, do I have to use <P><P> for my first paragraph break but just a single <P> thereafter. It's very annoying!
Ok, ok. I'm with you. the press is likely pushing this kind of absolutism more than the community at large. I can get behind that. Thanks for the discussion. And for pointing this broken HTML issue out. It's bugging the hell out of me as well. I'm guessing all the QA on slashcode is done with average posts, you know, 10 words, various spellings of "First" and "Post".
You and I are on the same side--unfortunately, a lot of the physical community is not. How many times have you heard or read something to the effect of: "[T]he Standard Model is a well established theory applicable over a wide range of conditions."(1) Or maybe: "To date, almost all experimental tests of the three forces described by the Standard Model have agreed with its predictions."(2) How's about: "Experiments have verified its predictions to incredible precision, and all the particles predicted by this theory have been found."(3)
I didn't argue that it's fundamental, whatever that means; I argued that physicists love the hell out of it because it's so accurate. I've just always considered its importance overblown because a lot of it is twisted to match the data. I'm not joking when I write that the community is considering adding ten more free variables to it. That's what they need to make neutrino oscillation work. You tell me, if everyone and their dog thinks it's a kludged up piece of shit, why does it still get accolades like those I've quoted--normally only with the caveat that "it doesn't cover gravity?" Do they think it's correct or not?
I've been stewing about this for a long time, I've called into NPR talk shows about it, etc. I feel like the Standard Model is irrevocably broken. There's a generation of physicists that really loves the hell out this thing, but it's got so many problems. I was tangentially involved with "proton sigma-r" cross-section experiments at the University of Redlands that violated the Standard Model. A lot of the SM's important values are empirical and "bolted on". A number of its predictions are not yet found (Higgs boson, anyone? Bueller?)
Yes, it predicted a number of cool particles, and sure enough, there they are. It also craps out more and more lately. Neutrinos oscillate, huh? Uh, well, we'll fix that later. Gravity... yeah. That's a bitch. I know! More free variables! We're at 19 now, what's 10 more?
This whole thing smacks of turn-of-the-20th-century Newtonians trying to cobble together a decent explanation for black-body radiators. They tried all kinds of tricks--turns out they didn't work, because the system is not Newtonian. Newtonian physics was awesome for predicting meso-scale behavior, but it's a dog at small and large scales. Similarly, I think, the Standard Model was super-dynamite for a good number of years, but to hang on to it through all these issues should be a red flag that something else might be a better explanation. Kuhn, here we come.
C'mon man, this is Slashdot. You can't make claims like this without knowing someone is going to bust you. A Cesium ATOM has a "size" of about 300 pm, and a hydrogen MOLECULE has a "size" a little smaller (interatomic distance is 150 pm). Atom > Molecule.
What you say is true--if used as a noun. That's how Xerox (as a noun meaning photocopy), Kleenex, Frisbee, Tin Foil, Yo-yo, and other words lost trademark status. They were being used as nouns and they were not sufficiently defended. I don't make up the rules, man. Verbs = okay, nouns = infringement.
Yes, that's what I mean. Sadly, no one will know what the hell you are talking about. Here's another tidbit--you can lose your trademark if it's too generic. "Mountain Bike" was once a trademark of Trek, I believe--but they lost it in court. That's why you don't see trademarks on things like "Folding Chair".
No. A trademark used as a verb is not considered an infringement and does not (nor can it be) defended by the trademark holder. Google, the company, should defend against the use of its rademark as a noun, as in, "The Google of Porn" or something like that.
I've been using OSX since 2001; so that's 5 years. Also, there's a TON of shortcuts and UI elements that Apple killed themselves to maintain--things like Command-Shift-3 for screen caps, the menu apps, etc. There wasn't anything I lost in the transition from Classic Mac OS aside from Crystal Crazy, and sad though I am, I persevere. I'm loving OSX, I had distaste for rebooting my Mac between "Game" and "Work" extension sets, so the switch has been great. Now because alphanerds have come and gone I have to pay attention? Bleh.
Your post contains my response: "KDE with the Aqua look and feel reduces relearning from OSX to zero." Ok, so I need to use KDE? Ubuntu uses Gnome by default, yes? Oh, and the default KDE isn't right either? I'm going to use the Aqua look-and-feel version. Now, please kill off my shortcuts like command-K, command-shift-3 (or 4), command-1, &c. Let's make sure to toss all the default file locations--I'm sure I could set them up and edit some file to make seem like old times. Let's tack on any apps I've ever used--barring Azureus--that shit runs everywhere!
I've been using Macs since 1992 and hating PC's since they stopped supporting NT4.0. These "nerds" have come and gone from my chosen platform, and I'm supposed to get in a tizzy about it? They want the best thing out there, and I can appreciate their efforts to achieve it. That doesn't mean I am willing to unlearn everything I've got invested in Macs because some gadfly can't stand to look at another Terminal.app window.
Tell me when the nerds shut down Apple, Inc. That's news.
I refuse to believe anyone--ANYONE--could get past that level with the dogs and the towers. Just getting through level 1 was hard enough, but the dogs? AND the towers? Come on. Konami made such great games for the NES: Blades of Steel, Contra, Double Dribble, Castlevania. But Rush'n Attack was just impossible.
I had Chip's Challenge. That was great. I played it, and played it, and played it. There weren't any other Lynx games, so I played that one. I had the California Games that came with it, Chip's Challenge, and the disappointing Cyberball port. I'm sure there were really great games on the Vectrex too. I bet both guys enjoyed them.
Well, the article is crushed, and everyone loves blogs, so these are my personal 10 Best Years in Video Gaming...
1981--My parents divorce. My Dad needs to overcompensate, so he gets an Odyssey2. I play Pick Axe Pete and KC Munchkin until I fall asleep at the controller.
1983--I play Galaga at the Silver Ball Arcade in Worcester, MA, and just cannot be stopped. I was in a trance. I must have played for 45 minutes. Everyone was watching. I was 10 years old.
1984--My friend has a Commodore 64 and we play Archon endlessly. The Banshee cannot lose.
1986--I see a kid play Super Mario Bros in an arcade cabinet in Orlando, FL. I am HYPNOTIZED. $290 dollars, four months, and one still-overcompensating Dad later I can retire my Atari 5200.
1987--I get Metroid. This is the best game ever made. (Still).
1991--Street Fighter 2 is released. Only Tournament Cyberball competes for quarters for the next three years. Dhalsim cannot lose.
1994--The University of Redlands Physics lab has many Macs hooked up with Appletalk. These many Macs all have Marathon on them. Deathmatches ensue, and ensue hard.
1997--I get my first Mac, and Ambrosia Software gets half my paycheck. Maelstrom, Apeiron, Swoop, Escape Velocity.
2003--Some minigolf place in the SVF has a Street Fighter II: Turbo game in the "cheap corner". I play for the first time in years and thrash the shit out of a dozen young Vietnamese kids for about 30 minutes. Dhalsim still can't lose. I walk away from the game.
2006--I re-re-re-discover Diablo 2. MAN I love this game. Watch out, Metroid.
Some lowlights...
I had an Atari Lynx.
King's Quest IV--you throw a golden ball into the POND? What the fuck?
Burgertime on the NES--worrrrrrst controllllls evaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrr!
Rush'n Attack on the NES. Did you beat this game? You're a fucking liar.
Yeah, I'm following up on this by giving a stern fucking glance to the clever asshole that thinks tagging every fucking story here with "slownewsday" is helpful. I'm not reading/. to get ready for next week's debate society meeting--I'm here precisely to read stories like this. I know where http://cnn.com/ is on tehIntarweb, fuckstick. Here's some gems from that leading authority's front page: Buick -- the car of choice for China's hip crowd and Duck-stalking gator caught near daycare. Please leave the tagging beta to the grownups, mmkay?
That's what WoWs (LOLLERSKATES!) me about Blizzard. Diablo 2 came out in 2000. The latest patch came out in January 2006. That's just AMAZING to me: 5.5 years later they are still actively patching the game. I honestly can't think of another game that has had someone issuing patches for 6 years. I know the Ambrosia Software guys pride themselves on porting the shit out of their games (Apeiron is working on 10 years now), but they aren't making the little centipede slightly faster or reconfiguring for widescreen displays or anything. Blizzard stands by their products in a robust and sadly rare manner. I'm guessing that's why a BattleBox of Diablo still costs $40 at retail--it's worth it.
Honestly, their out-of-the-box options in Office have always been set to "We Are Smart You Are Dumb This Is A Feature Not An Annoyance." To wit:
When selecting, automatically select entire word
Show full menus after a short delay
Copy and Paste of subtotals copies and pastes all the data, unless you paste to Notepad and then back to Excel, that makes sense.
"Cutting" in Excel is totally broken anyway--it doesn't cut a damn thing--you WANT to leave that data there until you paste it elsewhere. You do, really.
Spontaneous hyperlinking! THANKS!
They've always seemed waaaaaay to interested in the minutiae of my interactions with their software. Makes me crazy.
This real jerk at school (a major suck-up) was hassling my friends and me. We decided to exact some revenge and gassed him in his dorm room until he fell unconcious. One buddy of mine--a quirky chick, no less--knew how to do some rudimentary dental work and placed a radio receiver in his headgear! Can you believe it! I then used a small transmitter to tell him to stop masturbating, that I was God, etc., etc. Good times. Turns out he was working on some top secret shit that the Prof was trying to get us to work on without our knowledge. What an asshole. So, yeah.
...that this is the most annoying article I've seen posted in a long time. I even tried the "trick" of looking at the "Print this Article" and "Email This Article" links, which actually want to PRINT SOMETHING (it opens a Print dialog) or email a LINK to one page of the article. Garbage garbage garbage.
I went to the first three pages, which corresponds to about the first 19 words of this "article". He has room for about a sentence and a half and a graphic of the windows he's complaining about before you have to click (more) or Next >>. In fact, I can confidently say
Also in the article is the factoid that Americans consider Fox News the most trustworthy national news program overall (coming in at 11%).
Ugh, man, do not spread this tripe as fact.* I recall a documentary that mentioned that people who watch Fox News believe it is the most accurate while simulataneously being the least accurately informed members of the newswatching populace. The poll asked people to name their most trusted newssource. 11% of Americans named Fox News. The article summary is ambiguous on this point--it means that 89% of Americans do not trust Fox News the most. Thank God for that.
Does one spread tripe? Is it like butter? I've never had it.
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*I kill myself, I really do.
I didn't argue that it's fundamental, whatever that means; I argued that physicists love the hell out of it because it's so accurate. I've just always considered its importance overblown because a lot of it is twisted to match the data. I'm not joking when I write that the community is considering adding ten more free variables to it. That's what they need to make neutrino oscillation work. You tell me, if everyone and their dog thinks it's a kludged up piece of shit, why does it still get accolades like those I've quoted--normally only with the caveat that "it doesn't cover gravity?" Do they think it's correct or not?
Yes, it predicted a number of cool particles, and sure enough, there they are. It also craps out more and more lately. Neutrinos oscillate, huh? Uh, well, we'll fix that later. Gravity... yeah. That's a bitch. I know! More free variables! We're at 19 now, what's 10 more?
This whole thing smacks of turn-of-the-20th-century Newtonians trying to cobble together a decent explanation for black-body radiators. They tried all kinds of tricks--turns out they didn't work, because the system is not Newtonian. Newtonian physics was awesome for predicting meso-scale behavior, but it's a dog at small and large scales. Similarly, I think, the Standard Model was super-dynamite for a good number of years, but to hang on to it through all these issues should be a red flag that something else might be a better explanation. Kuhn, here we come.
What you say is true--if used as a noun. That's how Xerox (as a noun meaning photocopy), Kleenex, Frisbee, Tin Foil, Yo-yo, and other words lost trademark status. They were being used as nouns and they were not sufficiently defended. I don't make up the rules, man. Verbs = okay, nouns = infringement.
Yes, that's what I mean. Sadly, no one will know what the hell you are talking about. Here's another tidbit--you can lose your trademark if it's too generic. "Mountain Bike" was once a trademark of Trek, I believe--but they lost it in court. That's why you don't see trademarks on things like "Folding Chair".
I loved System 7.5.5. That was a great OS. What clunky downers 8 and 9 were. Vive le X!
I've been using OSX since 2001; so that's 5 years. Also, there's a TON of shortcuts and UI elements that Apple killed themselves to maintain--things like Command-Shift-3 for screen caps, the menu apps, etc. There wasn't anything I lost in the transition from Classic Mac OS aside from Crystal Crazy, and sad though I am, I persevere. I'm loving OSX, I had distaste for rebooting my Mac between "Game" and "Work" extension sets, so the switch has been great. Now because alphanerds have come and gone I have to pay attention? Bleh.
Yeah, easiest transition ever. Get over me.
Tell me when the nerds shut down Apple, Inc. That's news.
I refuse to believe anyone--ANYONE--could get past that level with the dogs and the towers. Just getting through level 1 was hard enough, but the dogs? AND the towers? Come on. Konami made such great games for the NES: Blades of Steel, Contra, Double Dribble, Castlevania. But Rush'n Attack was just impossible.
What about M.U.L.E.? Didn't that start the whole wander around and collect crap genre?
I had Chip's Challenge. That was great. I played it, and played it, and played it. There weren't any other Lynx games, so I played that one. I had the California Games that came with it, Chip's Challenge, and the disappointing Cyberball port. I'm sure there were really great games on the Vectrex too. I bet both guys enjoyed them.
- 1981--My parents divorce. My Dad needs to overcompensate, so he gets an Odyssey2. I play Pick Axe Pete and KC Munchkin until I fall asleep at the controller.
- 1983--I play Galaga at the Silver Ball Arcade in Worcester, MA, and just cannot be stopped. I was in a trance. I must have played for 45 minutes. Everyone was watching. I was 10 years old.
- 1984--My friend has a Commodore 64 and we play Archon endlessly. The Banshee cannot lose.
- 1986--I see a kid play Super Mario Bros in an arcade cabinet in Orlando, FL. I am HYPNOTIZED. $290 dollars, four months, and one still-overcompensating Dad later I can retire my Atari 5200.
- 1987--I get Metroid. This is the best game ever made. (Still).
- 1991--Street Fighter 2 is released. Only Tournament Cyberball competes for quarters for the next three years. Dhalsim cannot lose.
- 1994--The University of Redlands Physics lab has many Macs hooked up with Appletalk. These many Macs all have Marathon on them. Deathmatches ensue, and ensue hard.
- 1997--I get my first Mac, and Ambrosia Software gets half my paycheck. Maelstrom, Apeiron, Swoop, Escape Velocity.
- 2003--Some minigolf place in the SVF has a Street Fighter II: Turbo game in the "cheap corner". I play for the first time in years and thrash the shit out of a dozen young Vietnamese kids for about 30 minutes. Dhalsim still can't lose. I walk away from the game.
- 2006--I re-re-re-discover Diablo 2. MAN I love this game. Watch out, Metroid.
Some lowlights...Yeah, I'm following up on this by giving a stern fucking glance to the clever asshole that thinks tagging every fucking story here with "slownewsday" is helpful. I'm not reading /. to get ready for next week's debate society meeting--I'm here precisely to read stories like this. I know where http://cnn.com/ is on tehIntarweb, fuckstick. Here's some gems from that leading authority's front page: Buick -- the car of choice for China's hip crowd and Duck-stalking gator caught near daycare. Please leave the tagging beta to the grownups, mmkay?
That's what WoWs (LOLLERSKATES!) me about Blizzard. Diablo 2 came out in 2000. The latest patch came out in January 2006. That's just AMAZING to me: 5.5 years later they are still actively patching the game. I honestly can't think of another game that has had someone issuing patches for 6 years. I know the Ambrosia Software guys pride themselves on porting the shit out of their games (Apeiron is working on 10 years now), but they aren't making the little centipede slightly faster or reconfiguring for widescreen displays or anything. Blizzard stands by their products in a robust and sadly rare manner. I'm guessing that's why a BattleBox of Diablo still costs $40 at retail--it's worth it.
- When selecting, automatically select entire word
- Show full menus after a short delay
- Copy and Paste of subtotals copies and pastes all the data, unless you paste to Notepad and then back to Excel, that makes sense.
- "Cutting" in Excel is totally broken anyway--it doesn't cut a damn thing--you WANT to leave that data there until you paste it elsewhere. You do, really.
- Spontaneous hyperlinking! THANKS!
They've always seemed waaaaaay to interested in the minutiae of my interactions with their software. Makes me crazy.This real jerk at school (a major suck-up) was hassling my friends and me. We decided to exact some revenge and gassed him in his dorm room until he fell unconcious. One buddy of mine--a quirky chick, no less--knew how to do some rudimentary dental work and placed a radio receiver in his headgear! Can you believe it! I then used a small transmitter to tell him to stop masturbating, that I was God, etc., etc. Good times. Turns out he was working on some top secret shit that the Prof was trying to get us to work on without our knowledge. What an asshole. So, yeah.
Fake story.
...that this is the most annoying article I've seen posted in a long time. I even tried the "trick" of looking at the "Print this Article" and "Email This Article" links, which actually want to PRINT SOMETHING (it opens a Print dialog) or email a LINK to one page of the article. Garbage garbage garbage.
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Does one spread tripe? Is it like butter? I've never had it.