No you're not a "sociopatic deviant" I've met heaps of people that don't want to have kids.
My current girlfriend didn't want anything to do with having little brats when I met her. Six months later she says that she's thinking about it more and more; something do to with her natural maternal instinct kicking in I guess.
A bank leaves a million dollars on the pavement outside its front door with a little sign saying, "Property of Bank", just to ensure that passing people understand that it's not "lost" money.
Now **no one** has the right to pick it up and walk away, it's not theirs, regardless of how easy it would be do to.
It's the same here, information is a real and tangible property.
Yes, you could look at the information that the school has made easily accessable (like you said, sign in the window), but if you do (and this was hardly "accidental") then you are knowingly committing a wrong (I won't say crime because I don't know the legal status of such things).
I agree that the school should not be making their information so easily available, but if someone steals it then it's the fault of the stealer, not the school.
These guys are doing some amazing stuff far and beyond what I was after, but their current release for a bootable Linux system is tops! I can walk up to the "secure" DELL WINNT machines at my university and do something useful with them (write and test PHP code on a local apache server).
You can't apply an understanding of the macro world to the quanta world to just dismiss tunneling.
Dude, I wasn't. Gravity does not work with quantum mechanics, period.
Thats all I was saying. The gravitational potential "seen" by the particles on the even horizon is something that they can indeed tunnel through (just like other, electromagnetic for example, potentials) but the math doesn't work.
So that's why it was really funky when Hawking realised that you could come at it from another angle, that's pair production, when the virtual particle falls in, it's like the real one coming out.
I know quantum mechanics, it's gnarly stuff, and I wasn't dismissing tunneling at all.
OK, welcome to the wonderful world of Physics.
The units that you use to qualify a number can originate in a number of different ways.
The most common and easy to understand method is that the unit is the "thing" being measured. eg, 5 seconds being measured with a timer is indeed seconds and it would be silly to use anything else.
Another more tricky concept is that the units come from how the value has been derived. If I measured those same five seconds by comparing them against a small animal running past trees through the forest we could imagine units of [trees passed] / [trees per second of animal speed] the seconds are still in there by are obscured by the way we have made the measurement.
In your example of Volts, the unit "Volt", is a combination of other more fundamental units and could be expressed in many more ways again!
The units that you use to qualify a number can originate in a number of different ways.
The most common and easy to understand method is that the unit is the "thing" being measured. eg, 5 seconds being measured with a timer is indeed seconds and it would be silly to use anything else.
Another more tricky concept is that the units come from how the value has been derived. If I measured those same five seconds by comparing them against a small animal running past trees through the forest we could imagine units of [trees passed] / [trees per second of animal speed] the seconds are still in there by are obscured by the way we have made the measurement.
In your example of Volts, the unit "Volt", is a combination of other more fundamental units and could be expressed in many more ways again!
Sorry, but tunneling is a purely quantum phenomenon and we currently have no solid theory about quantum gravity.
The blackhole "leaks" radiation from its event horizon due to pair creation.
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While blackholes do indeed "consume" matter, they also radiate energy (which via Einstein's E=mc^2 is the same stuff).
To understand Hawking radiation, image looking very closely at the event horizon of the blackhole. Everything on one side is doomed to be sucked in, while on the other, there is a chance it can escape.
Due to the massive gravitational field particles are being torn apart and there is a lot of energy floating around. This high energy region causes particle/anti-particle pairs to be created (a story for another day) and if one ends up on the wrong side then the other can escape and radiate energy away from the blackhole.
So there you go. The idea is that if the mini blackhole is made right, the little beastie will radiate away all its energy and disappear, rather than consume the entire world.
Yes, you are right.
Based on your first post I imagined you as one of those speak first, think later, loud mouthed student politicians that I have to put up with about uni at the moment.
For what it's worth, I thought your reply was the bomb, good work.
PS: Sorry about the aweful pun.
Look.
What would happen if some dirty fucks came walking into Oz, killing and maiming and raping your mother and family.
We know we don't have what it takes to defend ourselves.
But what if we didn't have allies in the US (or elsewhere) because people like you kept saying that it's bad to have friends more powerful than yourself, it's bad to live in this big wide world and make friends with other countries.
Because I think it would be BLOODY IRRESPONSIBLE for us NOT to be chummy with the USA. We need the support to defend ourselves and you're just being a naive little prick if you think wars don't happen. They do. Accept it, and go make yourself useful by working in foreign policy, or for/with the government to help prevent it.
" see the fact the many Australians are also unhappy with our government"
It makes me laugh!
People will always complain, no matter what you do. Those that earn more, bitch about taxes. Those that don't earn much, bitch about how nobody does enough for them.
We have it pretty damn good in this country, and if the best we can manage is a winge like "gee, I don't like that Johnny Howard guy" rather than, "gee, perhaps we should be physically (as in firebombs) overthrowing our government because it kills people in the streets for not doing the right thing, whatever the hell that might be" then we've got nothing to worry about.
There's nothing worse than a vocal minority claiming everyone thinks like them.
It's too early in the piece for me to comment on the Medicare policy, but just like everyone else, I'll cast my vote accordingly.
I like it, although you may have a tough time getting the circuits down to size at the moment; and it'd need non-standard form-factor flash, driving up the price.
Mac mice have never had an issue with left/right-handedness. (Also note that many creative types are right-brained, thus left-handed. This is important to some.)
Bullshit!
While my reference here seems like a dodgy geocities site, his references are pretty good and you can also do a more extensive search.
The left-right brain thing is on a par with the also incorrect but popular theory of taste sensitivity areas on the tongue. Check this and this for a debunk of that one too.
Sorry for ranting, but it's too early to read this tripe!
One of the funniest thing I ever saw was a second year science student writing up her lab report in the Library.
She had her notebook out and was punching numbers into Excel. But she would pause every so often to use her hand calculator at her side to add up each row as she went, and then type in the total.
Naturally the amount of adoration I received when I showed her the "quicker" alternative resulted in copious ammounts of sexual favours, but, er... perhaps I'll save that for another post.
There is no denying that floppies are cheap and easy to use and do exactly what you want them to do (until they fail miserably) and are so well supported across the computing world that they do indeed do their job well.
But why hasn't a good replacement appeared?
Why hasn't a "new" device that does exactly the same thing as a floppy and is NOT based on crazy and expensive proprietry hardware been designed yet?
If I could by a solidstate disk that held about 5 MB (plenty of space for documents), was durable, could support thousands of rewrites, and was almost as cheap as a floppy.. etc etc... then it would be perfect for the job and would surely sell very well too.
I always feel stupid writing a 1 MB document to a CD; I *payed* for the other 639/699/799 MB and I'm not even *using* it!
Yup,
I've just been shafted by my Uni this semester. All the units are moving towards heavy coursework components, as opposed to the traditional exam based methods.
It sucks as I also did well on my exams, walked away knowing a lot of Physics and yet, got failed on some units because I didn't do some stupid half assed poxy assignment.
OK, laugh at me for being an idiot and not doing the work, but I'm still pissed off.
In that if you want something to wash down that McGrease you need to buy a drink from them as most won't allow food from outside sources in there dinning area, for health reasons..
Wanted to query your comment on bringing drinks into a fast food restuarant. Why on earth is it for health reasons?!?!?!?!?!
Sounds exactly like the restuarant in question is purposefully making its own micro-monopoly.
If this is in fact supported by legislation, who ensured that such legislation was brought into place originally? The large resuarant chains perhaps?
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No you're not a "sociopatic deviant" I've met heaps of people that don't want to have kids.
My current girlfriend didn't want anything to do with having little brats when I met her. Six months later she says that she's thinking about it more and more; something do to with her natural maternal instinct kicking in I guess.
"Snazzy"? more like shithouse!
It wasn't just the intro that was in flash, it was the whole damn site, and it was unusable on this little old iBook.
I can undersand why people would want to use flash like this, it certainly is a much more extensive medium than HTML at the moment. But do we want it?
Sorry, but I don't think the analogy quite holds.
How about:
A bank leaves a million dollars on the pavement outside its front door with a little sign saying, "Property of Bank", just to ensure that passing people understand that it's not "lost" money.
Now **no one** has the right to pick it up and walk away, it's not theirs, regardless of how easy it would be do to.
It's the same here, information is a real and tangible property.
Yes, you could look at the information that the school has made easily accessable (like you said, sign in the window), but if you do (and this was hardly "accidental") then you are knowingly committing a wrong (I won't say crime because I don't know the legal status of such things).
I agree that the school should not be making their information so easily available, but if someone steals it then it's the fault of the stealer, not the school.
Have you looked at ADIOS??
These guys are doing some amazing stuff far and beyond what I was after, but their current release for a bootable Linux system is tops! I can walk up to the "secure" DELL WINNT machines at my university and do something useful with them (write and test PHP code on a local apache server).
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It won't be an infringement if my device doesn't use a processor, right?
Sweeeeeet, but how do I make it work now?
You can't apply an understanding of the macro world to the quanta world to just dismiss tunneling. Dude, I wasn't. Gravity does not work with quantum mechanics, period. Thats all I was saying. The gravitational potential "seen" by the particles on the even horizon is something that they can indeed tunnel through (just like other, electromagnetic for example, potentials) but the math doesn't work. So that's why it was really funky when Hawking realised that you could come at it from another angle, that's pair production, when the virtual particle falls in, it's like the real one coming out. I know quantum mechanics, it's gnarly stuff, and I wasn't dismissing tunneling at all.
OK, welcome to the wonderful world of Physics. The units that you use to qualify a number can originate in a number of different ways. The most common and easy to understand method is that the unit is the "thing" being measured. eg, 5 seconds being measured with a timer is indeed seconds and it would be silly to use anything else. Another more tricky concept is that the units come from how the value has been derived. If I measured those same five seconds by comparing them against a small animal running past trees through the forest we could imagine units of [trees passed] / [trees per second of animal speed] the seconds are still in there by are obscured by the way we have made the measurement. In your example of Volts, the unit "Volt", is a combination of other more fundamental units and could be expressed in many more ways again!
OK, welcome to the wonderful world of Physics.
The units that you use to qualify a number can originate in a number of different ways.
The most common and easy to understand method is that the unit is the "thing" being measured. eg, 5 seconds being measured with a timer is indeed seconds and it would be silly to use anything else.
Another more tricky concept is that the units come from how the value has been derived. If I measured those same five seconds by comparing them against a small animal running past trees through the forest we could imagine units of [trees passed] / [trees per second of animal speed] the seconds are still in there by are obscured by the way we have made the measurement.
In your example of Volts, the unit "Volt", is a combination of other more fundamental units and could be expressed in many more ways again!
Sorry, but tunneling is a purely quantum phenomenon and we currently have no solid theory about quantum gravity. The blackhole "leaks" radiation from its event horizon due to pair creation. Here Have Fun!
Yes, I think so.
While blackholes do indeed "consume" matter, they also radiate energy (which via Einstein's E=mc^2 is the same stuff).
To understand Hawking radiation, image looking very closely at the event horizon of the blackhole. Everything on one side is doomed to be sucked in, while on the other, there is a chance it can escape.
Due to the massive gravitational field particles are being torn apart and there is a lot of energy floating around. This high energy region causes particle/anti-particle pairs to be created (a story for another day) and if one ends up on the wrong side then the other can escape and radiate energy away from the blackhole.
So there you go. The idea is that if the mini blackhole is made right, the little beastie will radiate away all its energy and disappear, rather than consume the entire world.
Interference over a digital link can be detected by the decoder at the other end and:
a) The missing bits are recreated using some funky error encoding/correction scheme, or
b) The data is asked for again.
So while the digital link can detect and work around interference, it lowers the ammount of information that is being sent (bandwidth).
Have you checked out this before?
http://magic.gibson.com/index.html
Yes, you are right. Based on your first post I imagined you as one of those speak first, think later, loud mouthed student politicians that I have to put up with about uni at the moment. For what it's worth, I thought your reply was the bomb, good work. PS: Sorry about the aweful pun.
Look. What would happen if some dirty fucks came walking into Oz, killing and maiming and raping your mother and family. We know we don't have what it takes to defend ourselves. But what if we didn't have allies in the US (or elsewhere) because people like you kept saying that it's bad to have friends more powerful than yourself, it's bad to live in this big wide world and make friends with other countries. Because I think it would be BLOODY IRRESPONSIBLE for us NOT to be chummy with the USA. We need the support to defend ourselves and you're just being a naive little prick if you think wars don't happen. They do. Accept it, and go make yourself useful by working in foreign policy, or for/with the government to help prevent it.
Everytime someone loud says:
" see the fact the many Australians are also unhappy with our government"
It makes me laugh!
People will always complain, no matter what you do. Those that earn more, bitch about taxes. Those that don't earn much, bitch about how nobody does enough for them.
We have it pretty damn good in this country, and if the best we can manage is a winge like "gee, I don't like that Johnny Howard guy" rather than, "gee, perhaps we should be physically (as in firebombs) overthrowing our government because it kills people in the streets for not doing the right thing, whatever the hell that might be" then we've got nothing to worry about.
There's nothing worse than a vocal minority claiming everyone thinks like them.
It's too early in the piece for me to comment on the Medicare policy, but just like everyone else, I'll cast my vote accordingly.
Ash
Fantastic!!!
I like it, although you may have a tough time getting the circuits down to size at the moment; and it'd need non-standard form-factor flash, driving up the price.
But you are right, it's a neat idea.
While my reference here seems like a dodgy geocities site, his references are pretty good and you can also do a more extensive search.
The left-right brain thing is on a par with the also incorrect but popular theory of taste sensitivity areas on the tongue. Check this and this for a debunk of that one too.
Sorry for ranting, but it's too early to read this tripe!
I have just been asked to put an online course together, and yes, I have to use the WebCT system our Uni uses.
If you had time, could you please list some of the major hangups you have so I know what to look out for.
Cheers,
Ashley Norris
Australian National University
Damn staight!
One of the funniest thing I ever saw was a second year science student writing up her lab report in the Library.
She had her notebook out and was punching numbers into Excel. But she would pause every so often to use her hand calculator at her side to add up each row as she went, and then type in the total.
Naturally the amount of adoration I received when I showed her the "quicker" alternative resulted in copious ammounts of sexual favours, but, er... perhaps I'll save that for another post.
There is no denying that floppies are cheap and easy to use and do exactly what you want them to do (until they fail miserably) and are so well supported across the computing world that they do indeed do their job well.
But why hasn't a good replacement appeared?
Why hasn't a "new" device that does exactly the same thing as a floppy and is NOT based on crazy and expensive proprietry hardware been designed yet?
If I could by a solidstate disk that held about 5 MB (plenty of space for documents), was durable, could support thousands of rewrites, and was almost as cheap as a floppy.. etc etc... then it would be perfect for the job and would surely sell very well too.
I always feel stupid writing a 1 MB document to a CD; I *payed* for the other 639/699/799 MB and I'm not even *using* it!
Yup, I've just been shafted by my Uni this semester. All the units are moving towards heavy coursework components, as opposed to the traditional exam based methods. It sucks as I also did well on my exams, walked away knowing a lot of Physics and yet, got failed on some units because I didn't do some stupid half assed poxy assignment. OK, laugh at me for being an idiot and not doing the work, but I'm still pissed off.
And also Sensevirons [spelling?] - (Dark Reign Trilogy, Peter F. Hamilton) The concept is awesome, and brilliantly portrayed in both titles.
...I am an idiot, that was meant to be AC! Hope someone finds me being a drop dead loser amusing...
You are a sumb fucking slut who needs to have an abortion to sort yourself out!
Wanted to query your comment on bringing drinks into a fast food restuarant. Why on earth is it for health reasons?!?!?!?!?!
Sounds exactly like the restuarant in question is purposefully making its own micro-monopoly.
If this is in fact supported by legislation, who ensured that such legislation was brought into place originally? The large resuarant chains perhaps?
Sounds awefully fishy to me!