One of the unsatisfying properties of the standard model is its large number of free parameters. A replacement which has approximately five times as many doesn't seem too desirable to me. Generally, the less free parameters you have, the better. You know, with enough free parameters, you can fit an elephant.
If a company releases a new product, they have to add new features to get you to buy it. Why add features to a product people have already bought when they're trying to push the new shiny?
Because if you disappoint people with your support of older versions, they might choose to not buy your next version, but switch to a competitor. Sure, people buying your latest stuff it the ideal situation for you, but people using your older stuff (and then, in five years, upgrading to another new version) is better than people switching away from your stuff altogether.
I don't know enough about QCD to say for sure, but given that the atomic binding energies are proportional to the electron mass, I'd be far from surprised if also the binding energy of nucleons depended critically on the quark masses, probably even to the point of proportionality (assuming you scale all masses the same).
In terms of particle interactions, they have it covered via the Higgs particle and gravitinos.
Gravitons. Gravitinos are the supersymmetric partners of gravitons, which might not exist at all.
But the standard model doesn't have curvature of space.
That's not the fundamental problem. If you could consistently describe quantum gravity without space curvature and recover GR in the classical limit, physicists would happily put space curvature where they haver put absolute time: A nice approximation which works well under certain conditions, but breaks down when you get to extremes. No, the real problem with quantum gravity is that the straightforward theories simply don't work.
"so, what do you wanna watch?" , "I don't know, whatever is on"
I usually decide what to watch before I even switch on my TV. Yes, this may include looking on the internet, but then I do so with my computer. Which of course has internet connection (otherwise I couldn't post here).
But most of the time, I just look into the old-fashioned paper TV guide.
With Cinnamon, it definitely doesn't have the program menus at the top of the screen (at least by default; I didn't check if you can get that as option), although it does have those annoying dialog windows which are attached to the main window's title bar, non-movable, usually hiding the stuff you want to see, and since the programs usually were not designed for that, often even missing critical information (the most extreme was a dialog asking "yes" or "no", without any hint what it was asking about, because the developer thought I could read that off the window title), which I've heard is copied from OS X. I haven't found a way to disable this and return to sane movable, title-bearing dialogs (well, ideally most dialogs should even be non-modal, but that's the application developer's fault, not the window manager's).
You don't understand. I'm not talking about a monopoly in cars, I'm talking about a monopoly in shops selling those cars. Those are two very different things.
Ha - do you really classify "I hate to say I told you so" as an insult?
"I told you so" is the insult.
> you could instead be helpful by pointing to GPLed alternatives. What makes you think that I don't do that?
What part of instead did you not understand?
> Of course if you didn't tell them so, "I told you so" itself is a lie.
Nice insinuation that I'm a liar. However, I do tell them, so your assuptions are again false.
Elementary logic fail. Here's a hint: The sentence starts with an "if". Here's another hint: The first paragraph also started with an "if", but with the opposite condition. Together they cover all possible cases.
And to be honest, in my experience, the more insulting the *repeated* feedback, the more likely it is to be effective. Soft fluffy "I mentioned {thing} before, have you tried it yet?" never works. "Again? You fucking idiot." often does.
Well, if you did the insulting feedback to me, it would certainly be effective -- in making me avoid every and any contact to you as much as possible.
I strongly doubt that the licensing agreement with Rovi included not giving the option to set the clock manually. Which, if I understood correctly, is the main issue of why those devices are completely non-functional.
Funny, I don't need internet connectivity either, and yet I'm not restricted to tapes, but can record and play directly to/from hard disk. And with better quality than VHS, too.
If you really told them so, they will remember it already after you said "This is why I'm here." Explicitly saying so will decrease the probability of taking your advice. Nobody likes to be told "I told you so" even if it is true. It will only get them into an opposition, and less accepting of what you say. Instead of adding insult to injury, you could instead be helpful by pointing to GPLed alternatives.
Of course if you didn't tell them so, "I told you so" itself is a lie.
Was it advertised that the device relies on the external service (as opposed to just using it, but still being usable, albeit in a less convenient way, without it?)
I personally would never expect the basic functionality of a DVR (that is, recording TV signals from programmed channels at programmed times) to fail just because a service providing information about TV broadcasts is shut down. I'd expect to just have to enter the times by hand in that case, not to have a completely useless device.
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Yeah, and please write a big number on the check you're going to give me.
One of the unsatisfying properties of the standard model is its large number of free parameters. A replacement which has approximately five times as many doesn't seem too desirable to me. Generally, the less free parameters you have, the better. You know, with enough free parameters, you can fit an elephant.
If a company releases a new product, they have to add new features to get you to buy it. Why add features to a product people have already bought when they're trying to push the new shiny?
Because if you disappoint people with your support of older versions, they might choose to not buy your next version, but switch to a competitor. Sure, people buying your latest stuff it the ideal situation for you, but people using your older stuff (and then, in five years, upgrading to another new version) is better than people switching away from your stuff altogether.
So in the future, it will not be booting Windows for games and Linux for work, but booting Ubuntu for games and Mint for work?
I don't know enough about QCD to say for sure, but given that the atomic binding energies are proportional to the electron mass, I'd be far from surprised if also the binding energy of nucleons depended critically on the quark masses, probably even to the point of proportionality (assuming you scale all masses the same).
Gravitons. Gravitinos are the supersymmetric partners of gravitons, which might not exist at all.
That's not the fundamental problem. If you could consistently describe quantum gravity without space curvature and recover GR in the classical limit, physicists would happily put space curvature where they haver put absolute time: A nice approximation which works well under certain conditions, but breaks down when you get to extremes. No, the real problem with quantum gravity is that the straightforward theories simply don't work.
It means string theorists are in trouble, because modern string theory assumes supersymmetry.
"so, what do you wanna watch?" , "I don't know, whatever is on"
I usually decide what to watch before I even switch on my TV. Yes, this may include looking on the internet, but then I do so with my computer. Which of course has internet connection (otherwise I couldn't post here).
But most of the time, I just look into the old-fashioned paper TV guide.
You mean, it will take the time until the current contract with Samsung ends?
>Here's a hint for you: N is the 14th letter of the alphabet.
Shut up you insensitive clod. I'm Chinese - and I can assure you that N is not the 14th letter of the alphabet ;)
Since when does Chinese have an alphabet? Chinese has ideograms.
Yes, there should have been a description of what is new in that version. But that's something different from describing what Linux Mint actually is.
s/Mate/Mint/ of course. But hey, if the Slashdot editors don't proofread, why should I? ;-)
If you think Mate is a strange little Linux distro you are clearly not up to date.
What it has to offer that other well-known distros have not? Well, a more traditional Gnome interface that Gnome Shell or Unity.
You grossly underestimate the power of shops.
That's the whole point of Mint. If you want Unity, just install Ubuntu.
With Cinnamon, it definitely doesn't have the program menus at the top of the screen (at least by default; I didn't check if you can get that as option), although it does have those annoying dialog windows which are attached to the main window's title bar, non-movable, usually hiding the stuff you want to see, and since the programs usually were not designed for that, often even missing critical information (the most extreme was a dialog asking "yes" or "no", without any hint what it was asking about, because the developer thought I could read that off the window title), which I've heard is copied from OS X. I haven't found a way to disable this and return to sane movable, title-bearing dialogs (well, ideally most dialogs should even be non-modal, but that's the application developer's fault, not the window manager's).
You don't understand. I'm not talking about a monopoly in cars, I'm talking about a monopoly in shops selling those cars. Those are two very different things.
It's not about the car manufacturing, but about the car selling. Each car producer would have a monopoly on shops selling their cars.
Maybe he's just angry that they didn't nickname it "Nyder" :-)
Here's a hint for you: N is the 14th letter of the alphabet.
"I told you so" is the insult.
What part of instead did you not understand?
Elementary logic fail. Here's a hint: The sentence starts with an "if".
Here's another hint: The first paragraph also started with an "if", but with the opposite condition. Together they cover all possible cases.
Well, if you did the insulting feedback to me, it would certainly be effective -- in making me avoid every and any contact to you as much as possible.
I strongly doubt that the licensing agreement with Rovi included not giving the option to set the clock manually. Which, if I understood correctly, is the main issue of why those devices are completely non-functional.
Funny, I don't need internet connectivity either, and yet I'm not restricted to tapes, but can record and play directly to/from hard disk. And with better quality than VHS, too.
If you really told them so, they will remember it already after you said "This is why I'm here." Explicitly saying so will decrease the probability of taking your advice. Nobody likes to be told "I told you so" even if it is true. It will only get them into an opposition, and less accepting of what you say. Instead of adding insult to injury, you could instead be helpful by pointing to GPLed alternatives.
Of course if you didn't tell them so, "I told you so" itself is a lie.
Was it advertised that the device relies on the external service (as opposed to just using it, but still being usable, albeit in a less convenient way, without it?)
I personally would never expect the basic functionality of a DVR (that is, recording TV signals from programmed channels at programmed times) to fail just because a service providing information about TV broadcasts is shut down. I'd expect to just have to enter the times by hand in that case, not to have a completely useless device.