The article suggests that the change is over time not space.
The real significance is that it would be the first law of physics, aside from entropy that has an arrow of time on it. (And most assume entropy is somehow an artifact of other laws of physics.) Maybe we can reverse this function, so instead of the fine structure constant being a function of time, time is a function of the value of the fine structure constant and its weakening increases the universes entropy.
INAP, but it seems like maybe a decrease in the fine structure constant would increase the tendency of particles to emit and absorb electrons, and therefore make the universe more chaotic over time.
Yes, of course, the U.S.'s discrimination against Palestine in all matters is very helpful. The U.S. said the peace process benefits from pulling out of UNESCO, so of course it does. Just as funding Israel's military and violations of International Law helps the peace process.
Corporations benefit greatly from the twin forms of Corporate welfare that are patents and government research.
I believe all knowledge gained from government research should go into something similar to an open source license. So that all technology based on government research should be free, open, and unpatentable.
of Economics tries to take the veneer of science by using a lot of mathematics. But this is not good. With powerful enough mathematics you can make almost any story you please fit your historical data. And there is certainly plenty of motive to do just that. Economics is rarely based on experiment. Granted there might be some psychological experiments that can inform economics, but most economics isn't based on that.
I am gravely disappointed that they have created an app for sex offenders to use! That is the exact opposite of what they should be doing! And shame on facebook for accepting it!
duckduckgo.com does these things for you and protects your privacy. Besides, if you searched for "car" on any search engine, you'd get ads for things like insurance, so the engine will give you related items and the engine makes a profit off of it.
That being said, I guess we are knocking it prematurely. We gotta see it before we know it's crap.
Well, I jump to the conclusion that a business like Amazon bases it's decisions on amoral profit calculations. If they are the publisher of a book, why should they put they sell the book through other distributors? If an Amazon competitor comes out. I think it's clear that Amazon won't put books it publishes up for sale there. Also, Amazon publishing doesn't really have to operate at a profit, does it? It can exist just for the profit of Amazon the distributor.
If Amazon is both the largest seller of books and then uses that position to shove it's way into controlling the publishing space, that is a very bad thing. I hope they are found to be in violation of anti-trust laws. It is just as bad as MS using Windows to push IE.
I was looking forward to the Internet leading to self-publishing replacing publishing companies. But it now seems like Amazon is going to subvert that. Instead of self-publishing, authors will be forced to enter into exclusive contracts with Amazon, and they will control books. Through Amazon Silk, they will also control the very content of the Internet itself. Going to Amazon to buy the books they like will be fast an easy. Going to an alternative book-seller, or a blog of someone who gives their writings away for free, won't be so easy.
There is a lot more to Pi than calculating circle sizes. There are open mathematical questions about Pi.
For example, is Pi a normal number? (A normal number is one in which all digits appear with the same frequency in every base). And if this product turns out to be true for the at least the first 10 trillion digits, it can be a great random number generator.
A normal number goes on forever and contains all sequences of numbers. So it is believed that every message you can think of is in the number Pi if you calculate it far enough.
I'm against people charging money for crap because they are part of an oligopoly. You should be able to watch the videos for free and then take a CLEP test. Or at best get your credit from a junior college. It's not like they've given you a value superior to a junior college if you watch a lecture.
You are against professors charging money for value.
That is the problem. You think because you have the "harshest" worldview, you are correct. This an endemic problem in conservative thinking, and the part that is basically a psychological disorder.
But in the true cold hard reality, the economic effect of paying for labor is very different from paying for stuff. When you pay people you are spreading money around to people who then spend the money again. When you buy things, you are giving it to a corporation which is likely to keep the money in the hands of the few or ship that money right out of your nation-state.
There are more specific faults in your analysis as well. A video of a professor is not better than an actual professor in the same manner that newer hardware is better than older hardware. It's a cheap solution. I really think that if you are just watching lectures, they should be free.
The article is comparing the university to Khan Academy and the online TED talks.
There's something different between university education and Khan Academy. What is it again? Oh yeah! One is free and the other costs more than a new automobile!
Likewise, the university is trying to save money. So both sides are motivated by money.
So the question is who is offering the students more value? I'd say the actual teachers. I mean you can go to Khan Academy and listen to lectures for free. I have trouble seeing why you should pay so much for an online course.
If that is what they cared about, why don't they just get MBA's or even law degrees? If you not only have a Ph.D. but actually become a professor, then apparently school comes to you easily. And if you are a professor, you probably get to go to school for free.
In spite of all the efforts of our saint-like Wall Street speculators, bankers, and corporate executives; teachers are out to destroy everything! I don't know why people have so much trouble recognizing the scourge of people that actually want to engage the youth!
And college professors are people who could have easily gotten MBA's but instead choose a life of intellectual exploration. These people are clearly insane!
And everyone knows that everyone in a labor union is a lazy freeloader! At least unemployed people have the decency to not sabotage our economy by involving themselves in the affairs of the wealthy!
Not a bad idea. Kind of ambitious though. Keep in mind that they just aren't as big as google. I agree that the big problem with Opera Unite! is that you have to leave your home computer on 24/7.
I have recently become an Opera enthusiast. What do people think of using Opera Unite as an alternative to Facebook? You hold all your own data that way.
Wow! I didn't think you would personally answer me. Actually, as I was recently teaching myself jQuery Mobile, I started using Opera and it is becoming my favorite browser and I really enjoy Opera Unite. I hope it replaces Facebook. (My biggest complaint is that web proxy doesn't handle my python cgi correctly).
If you say it is harder than I think, I believe you. But jQuery Mobile does paginate things pretty well. And while the calculations certainly seem harder when you have images and columns, it still figure out the pagination. For short pieces you can probably just make the calculations in the browser and for longer things, I would think you can cache the answers on the server.
Anyway, so if I write that for you, will you hire me?
Wium Lie noted it takes “enormous amounts of JavaScript to achieve what is a reasonable experience but we believe we can make it better with native support for pages”.
-And that enormous amount of JavaScript is called jQueryMobile. In jQuery Mobile, pages are div's with the data-role=page. From there you, can use HTML5 media queries to calculate your page. To be fair, RC1 just came out like two weeks ago, so it's understandable if this info didn't come to them.
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The article suggests that the change is over time not space.
The real significance is that it would be the first law of physics, aside from entropy that has an arrow of time on it. (And most assume entropy is somehow an artifact of other laws of physics.) Maybe we can reverse this function, so instead of the fine structure constant being a function of time, time is a function of the value of the fine structure constant and its weakening increases the universes entropy.
INAP, but it seems like maybe a decrease in the fine structure constant would increase the tendency of particles to emit and absorb electrons, and therefore make the universe more chaotic over time.
Non-geeks should bang geeks so they can have kids who are just plain smart.
Yes, of course, the U.S.'s discrimination against Palestine in all matters is very helpful. The U.S. said the peace process benefits from pulling out of UNESCO, so of course it does. Just as funding Israel's military and violations of International Law helps the peace process.
Corporations benefit greatly from the twin forms of Corporate welfare that are patents and government research.
I believe all knowledge gained from government research should go into something similar to an open source license. So that all technology based on government research should be free, open, and unpatentable.
of Economics tries to take the veneer of science by using a lot of mathematics. But this is not good. With powerful enough mathematics you can make almost any story you please fit your historical data. And there is certainly plenty of motive to do just that. Economics is rarely based on experiment. Granted there might be some psychological experiments that can inform economics, but most economics isn't based on that.
I am gravely disappointed that they have created an app for sex offenders to use! That is the exact opposite of what they should be doing! And shame on facebook for accepting it!
I set mine to duckduckgo. I'm pretty happy.
duckduckgo.com does these things for you and protects your privacy. Besides, if you searched for "car" on any search engine, you'd get ads for things like insurance, so the engine will give you related items and the engine makes a profit off of it.
That being said, I guess we are knocking it prematurely. We gotta see it before we know it's crap.
Well, I jump to the conclusion that a business like Amazon bases it's decisions on amoral profit calculations. If they are the publisher of a book, why should they put they sell the book through other distributors? If an Amazon competitor comes out. I think it's clear that Amazon won't put books it publishes up for sale there. Also, Amazon publishing doesn't really have to operate at a profit, does it? It can exist just for the profit of Amazon the distributor.
If Amazon is both the largest seller of books and then uses that position to shove it's way into controlling the publishing space, that is a very bad thing. I hope they are found to be in violation of anti-trust laws. It is just as bad as MS using Windows to push IE.
I was looking forward to the Internet leading to self-publishing replacing publishing companies. But it now seems like Amazon is going to subvert that. Instead of self-publishing, authors will be forced to enter into exclusive contracts with Amazon, and they will control books. Through Amazon Silk, they will also control the very content of the Internet itself. Going to Amazon to buy the books they like will be fast an easy. Going to an alternative book-seller, or a blog of someone who gives their writings away for free, won't be so easy.
There is a lot more to Pi than calculating circle sizes. There are open mathematical questions about Pi.
For example, is Pi a normal number? (A normal number is one in which all digits appear with the same frequency in every base). And if this product turns out to be true for the at least the first 10 trillion digits, it can be a great random number generator.
A normal number goes on forever and contains all sequences of numbers. So it is believed that every message you can think of is in the number Pi if you calculate it far enough.
You forgot to ask why I hate freedom.
I'm against people charging money for crap because they are part of an oligopoly. You should be able to watch the videos for free and then take a CLEP test. Or at best get your credit from a junior college. It's not like they've given you a value superior to a junior college if you watch a lecture.
You are against professors charging money for value.
That is the problem. You think because you have the "harshest" worldview, you are correct. This an endemic problem in conservative thinking, and the part that is basically a psychological disorder.
But in the true cold hard reality, the economic effect of paying for labor is very different from paying for stuff. When you pay people you are spreading money around to people who then spend the money again. When you buy things, you are giving it to a corporation which is likely to keep the money in the hands of the few or ship that money right out of your nation-state.
There are more specific faults in your analysis as well. A video of a professor is not better than an actual professor in the same manner that newer hardware is better than older hardware. It's a cheap solution. I really think that if you are just watching lectures, they should be free.
But they disparage all teachers as a group. That amounts to disparaging them for wanting to teach.
I think he's trying to make some kind of point; like people who sleep outside to get iPhones aren't giant guilable losers.
I am for this if it's free. I'm just against them charging money for this crap.
The article is comparing the university to Khan Academy and the online TED talks.
There's something different between university education and Khan Academy. What is it again? Oh yeah! One is free and the other costs more than a new automobile!
Likewise, the university is trying to save money. So both sides are motivated by money.
So the question is who is offering the students more value? I'd say the actual teachers. I mean you can go to Khan Academy and listen to lectures for free. I have trouble seeing why you should pay so much for an online course.
If that is what they cared about, why don't they just get MBA's or even law degrees? If you not only have a Ph.D. but actually become a professor, then apparently school comes to you easily. And if you are a professor, you probably get to go to school for free.
In spite of all the efforts of our saint-like Wall Street speculators, bankers, and corporate executives; teachers are out to destroy everything! I don't know why people have so much trouble recognizing the scourge of people that actually want to engage the youth!
And college professors are people who could have easily gotten MBA's but instead choose a life of intellectual exploration. These people are clearly insane!
And everyone knows that everyone in a labor union is a lazy freeloader! At least unemployed people have the decency to not sabotage our economy by involving themselves in the affairs of the wealthy!
Not a bad idea. Kind of ambitious though. Keep in mind that they just aren't as big as google. I agree that the big problem with Opera Unite! is that you have to leave your home computer on 24/7.
I have recently become an Opera enthusiast. What do people think of using Opera Unite as an alternative to Facebook? You hold all your own data that way.
Wow! I didn't think you would personally answer me. Actually, as I was recently teaching myself jQuery Mobile, I started using Opera and it is becoming my favorite browser and I really enjoy Opera Unite. I hope it replaces Facebook. (My biggest complaint is that web proxy doesn't handle my python cgi correctly).
If you say it is harder than I think, I believe you. But jQuery Mobile does paginate things pretty well. And while the calculations certainly seem harder when you have images and columns, it still figure out the pagination. For short pieces you can probably just make the calculations in the browser and for longer things, I would think you can cache the answers on the server.
Anyway, so if I write that for you, will you hire me?
Wium Lie noted it takes “enormous amounts of JavaScript to achieve what is a reasonable experience but we believe we can make it better with native support for pages”. -And that enormous amount of JavaScript is called jQueryMobile. In jQuery Mobile, pages are div's with the data-role=page. From there you, can use HTML5 media queries to calculate your page. To be fair, RC1 just came out like two weeks ago, so it's understandable if this info didn't come to them.