When I moved from theUS to Lithuania, ten years after they were released by the USSR, I learned a valuable lesson. In places where there is plenty of freh, clean air, people don't talk about the air. In places where there is freedom, people don't talk about freedom. They live it.
I have an engineering degree (BS, AOE) from an in-state university. At this point, 20 years down the road, having lived frugally the whole time, I own a mobile home that is older than I am, on a rented lot, no retirement 401k, medical care plan is over 1/3 of my income, and no significant savings or money to send my 14 year old to college in 4 years. No land, either.
The companies that have used my skills have all profited heavily from them, but I have not. Nor is my anecdotal evidence far from the truth for most other college educated americans, recently.
Since the sole beneficiary of a college degree is the employers, I categorically refuse to send my kid to college, and have advised him not to waste his time on it, either.
Nor have colleges satisfied their charters, that I should support them.
Basically, we value the laborer not at all, and we give all value to those who 0wn others.
So the grad student who did the work, basically will maybe profit, a little; the directing prof who basically gets the funding profits a lot; the university football team profits tons; the contracting companies profit even more; and Elsevier profits even more.
Meanwhile, the grad student may be able to access his own work in twenty years. Maybe.
The key to being an 0wn3r society, is that you have to reassign 0wn3rship from the ones who do the work, to l33ts who did nothing except party and drink, and tell the pols what good guys they are.
There's another word for an 0wn3r society: socialism. That includes both communism (Soviet/Chinese style 0wn3rs) and fascism (Naziism, and Us'ns' style of 0wn3rs).
Both types self destruct; so far, the self-destruction of fascism has been quite explosively violent. The self-destruction of communism has tended to be very criminal: though mafias, human traffic, and such. I am not sure that it has to be that way, but it may be.
0wn3r societies are both contrary to simple justice; but under simple justice, people don't have the hope of hitting it big, so that the whole world can see or be made to believe what hugely great a person he is. [Think of Putin, who has to be a sports star, a rock star, an astronaut, whatever.] So human wickedness tends to like 0wn3r societies, even when the person has no actual hope of being on top. Human wickedness has no grip on reality.
And since most humans are very much in the grip of their own wickedness [when's the last time you saw someone who *didn't* gossip? Who didn't defend themselves against unjust or partially just attacks?] then we're going to tend towards 0wn3r societies.
Well, consider this: whichever quark (R/G/B) is closest to the black hole, will experience the greatest acceleration. Therefore, it will be accelerated away from the other two, until the energy is enough to cause particle/antiparticle pair creation. But the particle/antiparticle pair will also be created between the quark and its partners... therefore, you will not get pair annhiliation of the outer two. The new pair can't catch the old pair.
Still, any distance between the new quark/antiquark (say, R/*R), and they won't annhilate either. So you're going to end up with a whole string of R/*R/R/*R, a whole string of G/*G/G/*G, and a whole string of B/*B/B/*B.
Not only that, but because of the momentum version of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, the shape of each quark within the string should start to look like a pancake: very well defined in the dimension into which it is falling, and quite undefined in the perpendicular dimensions.
At some point, the population will be enough that the width allows momentary interactions between quarks that are, well, momentarily parallel. So you will see a virtual particle become momentarily real... and then not real.
Very strange, because it starts to look like normal space.
I can't follow any logic any farther, because -- as you say -- our equations fail. But as far as I have followed it, is only approaching the singularity, not even at it.
Of course, but as pipe smokers know, the repeated application of abnormal heat DOES cause dna damage, as well as mouth cancer.
So absolutely correct, cell phones don't cause ionizing radiation; at least not hitting a researcher upside the head with one.
Cell phones produce microwaves, which cause abnormal heating of the inner ear nerve on the talking side of the head (or in the eyes), which then causes DNA damage, which then causes cancer.
Got a question : as a proton, one among many, accelerates into a black hole, what is going on with the individual quarks? What shape do they form? What virtual particles are materialized, in what pattern? What structure do they develop?
Don't go the VC route: there is enough slashdot anecdotal evidence to make it clear that being impoverished, enslaved, and destroyed is a repeatable experiment.
Don't take it to Apple: The Stoltzfus' (who invented Rosetta Stone) tried that with a previous product, and their failure and loss -- and the point that you never heard of the previous loss are an object lesson.
My advice? Contact the Stoltzfus' in Harrisonburg Va, and ask them to give advice (as a mentor). They might agree. Then give your basic presentation to them. Then listen to the advice, and market the idea yourselves.
First, the AARP cares most about old folks keeping their freedom, so they keep their licenses past the time that they can safely drive fast. But they do drive safe. It's just slow, in the left hand lane.
A mile ahead of where he has to turn left, Geezer puts on his signal. Car after car burns by them. He gets frustrated; says to his wife, âoeGeeza, they won't let me in." Twenty miles later, he finally turns left, gets his vehicle turned around, and gets back home.
But next time, he says "this isn't going to happen again. I know what I need to do; I need to get into my lane ten miles ahead of time, and stay in my lane."
So the impatience of those who are more able then comes back to bite them.
So go ahead and hulk out. Or maybe, instead just leave yourself enough time to get to work on time, and don't be blaming everyone else for why you are late. Then you'll be freeto be patient.
So basically, the spacetime foam theory is not playing out?
That's comforting, because it implies that the Heisenberg uncertainty principle is a bit more mundane than we think. I like to take it as an experimental practicality to "energy can be neither created nor destroyed"; but what I like is irrelevant to reality. However, if the spacetime foam is invalid, then the reality happens to be closer to what I imagine: a definition of existance and indeed space based on interactions between energetic particles, and a need of the particles for experimental validation with the rest of the universe.
Is a digikey gold capacitor really called a supercapacitor? I thought I saw those for sale back in 1992, wh'n there were dinosaurs roaming around, like the Windows 3.1asaurus.
Non-explosive fertilizer cast as useless? I beg to differ. But to make it have a better sounding headline, try this one:
Sandia Labs develops organic compost pile for only $720,000 per pound.
There! Now you can see how commercial opportunities abound and will help our economy, especially if Haliburton gets a contract to provide automatic compost bins to military mess halls everywhere. (And yes, I expect my thinly veiled reference to Haliburton to push my moderation up to +5)
This isn't about geeks. That is correct. It is about a nerd getting a really bad deal when faux nerds failed to delivereon what were to them magical promises, and the employer of said original nerd used and didn't back up the said nerd.
Now, if you are a nerd, and it occurs to you that you could be the next nerd in a situation like this (look at your pocket protector: is it hanging at a skew angle even as you read this?) then
When we (SEI, Harrisonburg) were working on the FBI's low-speed fingerprint imaging/acquisition project,as the prototype for the HSFIADC, the project manager quit, and the second in charge became the new project manager. He was a mennonite. His favorite story was how his father had rebelled against HIS father, by wearing a worldly tie. You know, the basic IBM style plain tie.
Point being, there is a whole range of mennonite.
I am not from Lancaster, so I could be just as ignorant of the Amish, but I was under the impresion that the Amish had less range in deviation from "Simple People."
FWIW, the design limitations on a car (has to be able to handle collisions well, needs to be compact to fit the road, needs to handle ground drag well, visual range appropriate for a ground vehicle) and an aircraft (has to be lightweight, visual ability for 3-D awareness, needs to handle front drag well) conflict so badly as to make a flying car horrible at both jobs.
Which, in turn, means that the engineers forgot to do the most basic engineering: examination of the performance requirements and envelope.
So the ones playing with this project can't are maybe managers, but... this is a waste.
Gotta remember when Carly came to HP. It didn't doom HP. What it did do, was turn HP into a typical fortune-500 company: that is, the compost heap of companies failed.
HP is still around, and will still continue to take over failed companies, and compost them, losing value the whole way. Moreover, they will still be the "standard" for government agencies and colleges, regardless of value.
And yes, they will continue to have bright people, and waste their prime years in irrelevance.
Microsoft will be the same. Shoot, I expect Google to become that, too. After a certain size, good management is highly improbable; bad management is highly probable.
But that doesn't mean they won't have occasional blockbusters again, and won't be a "force to be reckoned with". They are, and will be. They'll just be of marginal value to anyone who deals with them.
Let me ask you: if you have an otto cycle engine rigged up with all kinds of sensors, and you start it up and run it for 40 minute under constant load, can you predict the characteristics of the next full cycle?
You can, though it hasn't happened yet, because the process isealready underway. In the same way, the earthquakes that accompany a volcanic eruption are absolutely predictable, even though --and because--the process is already underway. For example, if you see that the depth of certain shocks is decreasing at a fairly constant rate, you can predict that the next shock will be at a depth that is a function of the time elapsed.
In the same way, the proposed California Early Warning system is a prediction system that depends on processes already underway. Yes, the earthquake is already going. But it's not yet going strong. The early warning system announces that according to the shock pattern underway, there is a high likelyhood that this will be a big/small one.
The holy grail of earthquake prediction is not predicting what will happen next year: it is predicting when one is already coming with enough warning to save lives.
In another post on this story, I noted that prediction is about forecasting what is actually an already-occurring event, that we just haven't noticed yet.
In line with that, the proposed California early-warning system is a very feasible plan, just way too expensive for my taste.
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When I moved from theUS to Lithuania, ten years after they were released by the USSR, I learned a valuable lesson. In places where there is plenty of freh, clean air, people don't talk about the air. In places where there is freedom, people don't talk about freedom. They live it.
Keep talkin, you're comin' thru.
I have an engineering degree (BS, AOE) from an in-state university. At this point, 20 years down the road, having lived frugally the whole time, I own a mobile home that is older than I am, on a rented lot, no retirement 401k, medical care plan is over 1/3 of my income, and no significant savings or money to send my 14 year old to college in 4 years. No land, either.
The companies that have used my skills have all profited heavily from them, but I have not. Nor is my anecdotal evidence far from the truth for most other college educated americans, recently.
Since the sole beneficiary of a college degree is the employers, I categorically refuse to send my kid to college, and have advised him not to waste his time on it, either.
Nor have colleges satisfied their charters, that I should support them.
So you don't thi!k an optic lens or an inner ear wave guide would focus and concentrate the microwaves?
Basically, we value the laborer not at all, and we give all value to those who 0wn others.
So the grad student who did the work, basically will maybe profit, a little; the directing prof who basically gets the funding profits a lot; the university football team profits tons; the contracting companies profit even more; and Elsevier profits even more.
Meanwhile, the grad student may be able to access his own work in twenty years. Maybe.
The key to being an 0wn3r society, is that you have to reassign 0wn3rship from the ones who do the work, to l33ts who did nothing except party and drink, and tell the pols what good guys they are.
There's another word for an 0wn3r society: socialism. That includes both communism (Soviet/Chinese style 0wn3rs) and fascism (Naziism, and Us'ns' style of 0wn3rs).
Both types self destruct; so far, the self-destruction of fascism has been quite explosively violent. The self-destruction of communism has tended to be very criminal: though mafias, human traffic, and such. I am not sure that it has to be that way, but it may be.
0wn3r societies are both contrary to simple justice; but under simple justice, people don't have the hope of hitting it big, so that the whole world can see or be made to believe what hugely great a person he is. [Think of Putin, who has to be a sports star, a rock star, an astronaut, whatever.] So human wickedness tends to like 0wn3r societies, even when the person has no actual hope of being on top. Human wickedness has no grip on reality.
And since most humans are very much in the grip of their own wickedness [when's the last time you saw someone who *didn't* gossip? Who didn't defend themselves against unjust or partially just attacks?] then we're going to tend towards 0wn3r societies.
Enjoy the ride.
Well, consider this: whichever quark (R/G/B) is closest to the black hole, will experience the greatest acceleration. Therefore, it will be accelerated away from the other two, until the energy is enough to cause particle/antiparticle pair creation. But the particle/antiparticle pair will also be created between the quark and its partners... therefore, you will not get pair annhiliation of the outer two. The new pair can't catch the old pair.
Still, any distance between the new quark/antiquark (say, R/*R), and they won't annhilate either. So you're going to end up with a whole string of R/*R/R/*R, a whole string of G/*G/G/*G, and a whole string of B/*B/B/*B.
Not only that, but because of the momentum version of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, the shape of each quark within the string should start to look like a pancake: very well defined in the dimension into which it is falling, and quite undefined in the perpendicular dimensions.
At some point, the population will be enough that the width allows momentary interactions between quarks that are, well, momentarily parallel. So you will see a virtual particle become momentarily real ... and then not real.
Very strange, because it starts to look like normal space.
I can't follow any logic any farther, because -- as you say -- our equations fail. But as far as I have followed it, is only approaching the singularity, not even at it.
Of course, but as pipe smokers know, the repeated application of abnormal heat DOES cause dna damage, as well as mouth cancer.
So absolutely correct, cell phones don't cause ionizing radiation; at least not hitting a researcher upside the head with one.
Cell phones produce microwaves, which cause abnormal heating of the inner ear nerve on the talking side of the head (or in the eyes), which then causes DNA damage, which then causes cancer.
Better sue researchers
I thought Skynet's primary goal was to eliminate weak links from its system.
Water rocket. It only has to decelerate the thing to a gentle landing.
Got a question : as a proton, one among many, accelerates into a black hole, what is going on with the individual quarks? What shape do they form? What virtual particles are materialized, in what pattern? What structure do they develop?
Don't go the VC route: there is enough slashdot anecdotal evidence to make it clear that being impoverished, enslaved, and destroyed is a repeatable experiment.
Don't take it to Apple: The Stoltzfus' (who invented Rosetta Stone) tried that with a previous product, and their failure and loss -- and the point that you never heard of the previous loss are an object lesson.
My advice? Contact the Stoltzfus' in Harrisonburg Va, and ask them to give advice (as a mentor). They might agree. Then give your basic presentation to them. Then listen to the advice, and market the idea yourselves.
First, the AARP cares most about old folks keeping their freedom, so they keep their licenses past the time that they can safely drive fast. But they do drive safe. It's just slow, in the left hand lane.
A mile ahead of where he has to turn left, Geezer puts on his signal. Car after car burns by them. He gets frustrated; says to his wife, âoeGeeza, they won't let me in." Twenty miles later, he finally turns left, gets his vehicle turned around, and gets back home.
But next time, he says "this isn't going to happen again. I know what I need to do; I need to get into my lane ten miles ahead of time, and stay in my lane."
So the impatience of those who are more able then comes back to bite them.
So go ahead and hulk out. Or maybe, instead just leave yourself enough time to get to work on time, and don't be blaming everyone else for why you are late. Then you'll be freeto be patient.
So basically, the spacetime foam theory is not playing out?
That's comforting, because it implies that the Heisenberg uncertainty principle is a bit more mundane than we think. I like to take it as an experimental practicality to "energy can be neither created nor destroyed"; but what I like is irrelevant to reality. However, if the spacetime foam is invalid, then the reality happens to be closer to what I imagine: a definition of existance and indeed space based on interactions between energetic particles, and a need of the particles for experimental validation with the rest of the universe.
I believe the Ewoks survive it by chortling, giggling, and jumping up and down. Did you wish to propose an alternative survival method?
Umm, Chernobyl, when translated, is Wormwood. I'm not looking for another.
Is a digikey gold capacitor really called a supercapacitor? I thought I saw those for sale back in 1992, wh'n there were dinosaurs roaming around, like the Windows 3.1asaurus.
Non-explosive fertilizer cast as useless? I beg to differ. But to make it have a better sounding headline, try this one:
Sandia Labs develops organic compost pile for only $720,000 per pound.
There! Now you can see how commercial opportunities abound and will help our economy, especially if Haliburton gets a contract to provide automatic compost bins to military mess halls everywhere. (And yes, I expect my thinly veiled reference to Haliburton to push my moderation up to +5)
This isn't about geeks. That is correct. It is about a nerd getting a really bad deal when faux nerds failed to delivereon what were to them magical promises, and the employer of said original nerd used and didn't back up the said nerd.
Now, if you are a nerd, and it occurs to you that you could be the next nerd in a situation like this (look at your pocket protector: is it hanging at a skew angle even as you read this?) then
this is stuff that matters
please hand in your nerd bag at the door.
You've been slashslashslash dot dotted
When we (SEI, Harrisonburg) were working on the FBI's low-speed fingerprint imaging/acquisition project,as the prototype for the HSFIADC, the project manager quit, and the second in charge became the new project manager. He was a mennonite. His favorite story was how his father had rebelled against HIS father, by wearing a worldly tie. You know, the basic IBM style plain tie.
Point being, there is a whole range of mennonite.
I am not from Lancaster, so I could be just as ignorant of the Amish, but I was under the impresion that the Amish had less range in deviation from "Simple People."
Oh, and sign up for a gmail account, for personal chitchat
I suggest you read The Tipping Point. There is more to 3M than allowing their engineers to play games.
FWIW, the design limitations on a car (has to be able to handle collisions well, needs to be compact to fit the road, needs to handle ground drag well, visual range appropriate for a ground vehicle) and an aircraft (has to be lightweight, visual ability for 3-D awareness, needs to handle front drag well) conflict so badly as to make a flying car horrible at both jobs.
Which, in turn, means that the engineers forgot to do the most basic engineering: examination of the performance requirements and envelope.
So the ones playing with this project can't are maybe managers, but ... this is a waste.
No, our whisleblowers are rotting in prison, at some points being tortured.
Oh, and that's my Lord who's name you are misusing. Apparently He isn't yours; please do not tread on that ground.
Gotta remember when Carly came to HP. It didn't doom HP. What it did do, was turn HP into a typical fortune-500 company: that is, the compost heap of companies failed.
HP is still around, and will still continue to take over failed companies, and compost them, losing value the whole way. Moreover, they will still be the "standard" for government agencies and colleges, regardless of value.
And yes, they will continue to have bright people, and waste their prime years in irrelevance.
Microsoft will be the same. Shoot, I expect Google to become that, too. After a certain size, good management is highly improbable; bad management is highly probable.
But that doesn't mean they won't have occasional blockbusters again, and won't be a "force to be reckoned with". They are, and will be. They'll just be of marginal value to anyone who deals with them.
Let me ask you: if you have an otto cycle engine rigged up with all kinds of sensors, and you start it up and run it for 40 minute under constant load, can you predict the characteristics of the next full cycle?
You can, though it hasn't happened yet, because the process isealready underway. In the same way, the earthquakes that accompany a volcanic eruption are absolutely predictable, even though --and because--the process is already underway. For example, if you see that the depth of certain shocks is decreasing at a fairly constant rate, you can predict that the next shock will be at a depth that is a function of the time elapsed.
In the same way, the proposed California Early Warning system is a prediction system that depends on processes already underway. Yes, the earthquake is already going. But it's not yet going strong. The early warning system announces that according to the shock pattern underway, there is a high likelyhood that this will be a big/small one.
The holy grail of earthquake prediction is not predicting what will happen next year: it is predicting when one is already coming with enough warning to save lives.
In another post on this story, I noted that prediction is about forecasting what is actually an already-occurring event, that we just haven't noticed yet.
In line with that, the proposed California early-warning system is a very feasible plan, just way too expensive for my taste.