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Dark Matter Exists
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We say dark matter, but we don't really mean dark _matter_ right? I mean, this isn't just a lot of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches floating in space? It's just an intangile. Other than having a lot of gravity at this point, it's pretty much undefined.
So what if it's a ripple/tight spot in spacetime? How could we tell?
I imagine it like the universe being a mostly inflated balloon. Everything inside is the universe. All of the super massive things (Black holes, etc) are so large, they cause outward bulges in the ballon. If you were to be standing on the inside, you would feel the effect by having the tendency of being pulled towards the bulge (gravity). So if you took your fingers and pinched the balloon and pulled a bit, you'd cause a depression (gravity from an inside observer's POV).
What if these things are also a precursor of a black hole? They obviously attract a lot of stuff with their gravity, so eventually, they'd attract A LOT of stuff, which would eventually lead to a black hole. Maybe super massive stars nearing death aren't the only mammas to black holes?
That's a lie. From what I understand a docsis channel can trasnmit 27 mbit/sec., which is plenty of voice calls. With an average of 100-500 customers on each HFC node, they'd be hard pressed to fill up just one channel worth of voice calls -- basically, if every single customer on that node had the voice service and a few hundred used the phone at the same time, they might have a problem.
This is true, but you're making one fatal assumption: That they're putting 100-500 customers on a node. It isn't a cake walk to just add a new node. The planned 500 people or so a node can vary wildly depending on the nieghborhood, and I'd hate to be the guy who has to do node planning.
Enabling 256QAM isn't just flipping a switch, either. A lot of things have to fall into place and there are often problems with SNR, etc, and if they don't, the upgrades are extremely expensive and time consuming, not to mention that it is often difficult to just pin the problems down, it takes a lot of experience and some good luck to quickly root out issues.
Can someone release some more ps3 pictures (Just color some up with ms paint or something), so these guys can go back to wacking off to their pictures while we play some games and get on with it?
Speaking of odd keys how many people still use the scroll lock? I have never figured out what it's for on modern keyboards.
If you're on a linux box, and the console messages have scrolled by and you desperately want to see them, without rebooting the machine again (Or whatever), turn scroll lock on and use "page up" to view the history. Make sure to turn scroll lock back off before typing though!
If you run an exchange server, or a high volume webmail site (i.e. gmail, hotmail, yahoo) and one user sends out 1 10mb email attachment to 100 people, how much volume does that take up? 1gb? No, 10mb. Now scale that up times millions of users. Space, and general purpose filesystems, and backups suddenly don't look so good.
Then something is wrong with your experiment, because lack of latency is of paramount importance to a VoIP call. Maybe the router vonage sent you does auto QoS? Maybe your computer cannot generate enough bandwidth to saturate the connection?
Judas, give the guy a break. Now the sony fanbois are using the "You should make more money, so you could buy one too" line?
Sounds like they're getting wound up. What's next, blackmailing us? I make a pretty good living for being in the US. I have the normal stuff like a car payment, rent, 401k, and I'll have a hard time fronting the money for this because it's a minimum $900 purchase before I walk out of the store (A couple games, a few controllers, etc).
You're right. Initramfs is better in many ways to initrd, and doesn't have the crazy limitations.
Initramfs, IIRC, has these advantages:
It doesn't need block level drivers compiled into the kernel to read itself like initrd does. It uses the kernel cache area as its file storage area so you don't have to allocate space with a ramdisk. The mem it used to store files with temporarily can be returned to the kernel after the kernel has booted. No artificial size limit.
Install from the "Alternate CD" to get text based install, and disable ACPI and APIC (Should be help in the options menu for those, I forget what they are) just in case.
You may have to go to a console and do "hdparm -d 0/dev/hdc" to disable dma on your cdrom if you have lots of read errors in your dmesg.
I'm on ubuntu. I downloaded the deb. Double clicked the deb. Typed my sudo password. Waited a few moments. Got the install screen. Clicked yes, next and ok. Boom! It's in my applications menu.
The problem here can be summed up in just one word: Religion.
Religion, historically, has been the cause to almost every war or mass killing of people. Once the human race wakes up and realizes it doesn't need religion, we're going to be a lot better off. Until then, we're going to be fighting each other with the help of our imaginary friends for the sake of making them believe in our imaginary friends.
I've got better things to do, and personally, every day I feel less and less empathy for these people who fight for those religions.
Personally, I think this is the best way to go about solving the chicken and the egg problem. Just doing it. Just start releasing the cores. I have absolutely no doubt that many, many applications will catch the drift and hop on board. It will take some time, indeed, but so did other software with hardware advancements (MMX, SSE, Graphics solutions, etc). Historically, the hardware has become before the software.
Agreed. I re-read some abstracts of the interpretations, and it seems I missed some areas. Specifically, the fact that the probabilites as far as the CI is concerned, are "it". That's all. There are no underlying mechanisms.
Which, like you said, is a philosophy. I don't want to go there either.
My original goal was to call BS on the poster's claim of "complete understanding", which I believe has succeeded. If I wouldn't have reached my goal, I would have at least learned something more than I knew about light and Q(M|ED).
I see. So being able to give a probability of its outcome using some calculations is some sort of "complete understanding". I suppose then, that you have your own interpretation of exactly _why_ light does what it does during the double-slit? Maybe you have some proof or some convincing evidence as to why your complete understanding is better than say, the Copenhagen intepretation or the alternative(s) - which aren't complete understandings but rather theories that haven't been disproven yet.
There's a huge difference between being able to understand things intimately enough to exactly predict behaviour (Which, amazingly, is what I intepret "complete understanding" as.), and being able to predict based on what something's done in the past (Which, BTW, is something like "pretty good idea of what's going to happen"). That's the kind of stuff I learned in my undergrad school - clearly not as omnipotent as your undergrad school.
I've read QED, among others, and (thought) I understood quite a bit. From my recollection, our understanding of light based on probabilities and statistics at best, and voodoo at worst.
So unless our understanding has grown by a substantial amount since 1988, I'd say that we don't understand light completely. As such, we don't understand the behaviour of light in arbitrary situations, such as the double slit. Indeed, we can come up with some pretty sure probabilities by wrapping math around them, but we certainly don't intimately understand light.
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We say dark matter, but we don't really mean dark _matter_ right? I mean, this isn't just a lot of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches floating in space? It's just an intangile. Other than having a lot of gravity at this point, it's pretty much undefined.
So what if it's a ripple/tight spot in spacetime? How could we tell?
I imagine it like the universe being a mostly inflated balloon. Everything inside is the universe. All of the super massive things (Black holes, etc) are so large, they cause outward bulges in the ballon. If you were to be standing on the inside, you would feel the effect by having the tendency of being pulled towards the bulge (gravity). So if you took your fingers and pinched the balloon and pulled a bit, you'd cause a depression (gravity from an inside observer's POV).
What if these things are also a precursor of a black hole? They obviously attract a lot of stuff with their gravity, so eventually, they'd attract A LOT of stuff, which would eventually lead to a black hole. Maybe super massive stars nearing death aren't the only mammas to black holes?
That's a lie. From what I understand a docsis channel can trasnmit 27 mbit/sec., which is plenty of voice calls. With an average of 100-500 customers on each HFC node, they'd be hard pressed to fill up just one channel worth of voice calls -- basically, if every single customer on that node had the voice service and a few hundred used the phone at the same time, they might have a problem.
This is true, but you're making one fatal assumption: That they're putting 100-500 customers on a node. It isn't a cake walk to just add a new node. The planned 500 people or so a node can vary wildly depending on the nieghborhood, and I'd hate to be the guy who has to do node planning.
Enabling 256QAM isn't just flipping a switch, either. A lot of things have to fall into place and there are often problems with SNR, etc, and if they don't, the upgrades are extremely expensive and time consuming, not to mention that it is often difficult to just pin the problems down, it takes a lot of experience and some good luck to quickly root out issues.
Can someone release some more ps3 pictures (Just color some up with ms paint or something), so these guys can go back to wacking off to their pictures while we play some games and get on with it?
Speaking of odd keys how many people still use the scroll lock? I have never figured out what it's for on modern keyboards.
If you're on a linux box, and the console messages have scrolled by and you desperately want to see them, without rebooting the machine again (Or whatever), turn scroll lock on and use "page up" to view the history. Make sure to turn scroll lock back off before typing though!
There's something about trying to get a hold of, and reading, the wrong books and me ending up imprisoned without a trial that bothers me.
Look at it this way...
If you run an exchange server, or a high volume webmail site (i.e. gmail, hotmail, yahoo) and one user sends out 1 10mb email attachment to 100 people, how much volume does that take up? 1gb? No, 10mb. Now scale that up times millions of users. Space, and general purpose filesystems, and backups suddenly don't look so good.
You can find XBMC versions with h.264 support and they play just fine. I use it for h.264 a half a dozen times a month or so.
Then something is wrong with your experiment, because lack of latency is of paramount importance to a VoIP call. Maybe the router vonage sent you does auto QoS? Maybe your computer cannot generate enough bandwidth to saturate the connection?
And my grandma still insists on using her phone book, her home phone, radio for weather and the newspaper for the news.
I use the internet, the internet, the internet and the internet.
BFD. I don't mind primary online subscriptions, and I doubt many would.
Judas, give the guy a break. Now the sony fanbois are using the "You should make more money, so you could buy one too" line?
Sounds like they're getting wound up. What's next, blackmailing us? I make a pretty good living for being in the US. I have the normal stuff like a car payment, rent, 401k, and I'll have a hard time fronting the money for this because it's a minimum $900 purchase before I walk out of the store (A couple games, a few controllers, etc).
You're right. Initramfs is better in many ways to initrd, and doesn't have the crazy limitations.
Initramfs, IIRC, has these advantages:
It doesn't need block level drivers compiled into the kernel to read itself like initrd does.
It uses the kernel cache area as its file storage area so you don't have to allocate space with a ramdisk.
The mem it used to store files with temporarily can be returned to the kernel after the kernel has booted.
No artificial size limit.
All in all, it's a much better alternative.
Install from the "Alternate CD" to get text based install, and disable ACPI and APIC (Should be help in the options menu for those, I forget what they are) just in case.
/dev/hdc" to disable dma on your cdrom if you have lots of read errors in your dmesg.
You may have to go to a console and do "hdparm -d 0
According to TFA, Gta is #1 with 7m units sold. However, Halo2 has published sales of 7.5 million.
You can do your own math, but it seems to me Halo2 appears to be #1.
Hah, that was hilarious. What's wrong with the mods?
I'm on ubuntu. I downloaded the deb. Double clicked the deb. Typed my sudo password. Waited a few moments. Got the install screen. Clicked yes, next and ok. Boom! It's in my applications menu.
The problem here can be summed up in just one word: Religion.
Religion, historically, has been the cause to almost every war or mass killing of people. Once the human race wakes up and realizes it doesn't need religion, we're going to be a lot better off. Until then, we're going to be fighting each other with the help of our imaginary friends for the sake of making them believe in our imaginary friends.
I've got better things to do, and personally, every day I feel less and less empathy for these people who fight for those religions.
There's no reason to be an ignoramus. It even shows up on most calendars in the US.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiZ-TqvVdGM
Which came first, the SMP or the SMP apps?
Personally, I think this is the best way to go about solving the chicken and the egg problem. Just doing it. Just start releasing the cores. I have absolutely no doubt that many, many applications will catch the drift and hop on board. It will take some time, indeed, but so did other software with hardware advancements (MMX, SSE, Graphics solutions, etc). Historically, the hardware has become before the software.
Agreed. I re-read some abstracts of the interpretations, and it seems I missed some areas. Specifically, the fact that the probabilites as far as the CI is concerned, are "it". That's all. There are no underlying mechanisms.
Which, like you said, is a philosophy. I don't want to go there either.
My original goal was to call BS on the poster's claim of "complete understanding", which I believe has succeeded. If I wouldn't have reached my goal, I would have at least learned something more than I knew about light and Q(M|ED).
I see. So being able to give a probability of its outcome using some calculations is some sort of "complete understanding". I suppose then, that you have your own interpretation of exactly _why_ light does what it does during the double-slit? Maybe you have some proof or some convincing evidence as to why your complete understanding is better than say, the Copenhagen intepretation or the alternative(s) - which aren't complete understandings but rather theories that haven't been disproven yet.
There's a huge difference between being able to understand things intimately enough to exactly predict behaviour (Which, amazingly, is what I intepret "complete understanding" as.), and being able to predict based on what something's done in the past (Which, BTW, is something like "pretty good idea of what's going to happen"). That's the kind of stuff I learned in my undergrad school - clearly not as omnipotent as your undergrad school.
I've read QED, among others, and (thought) I understood quite a bit. From my recollection, our understanding of light based on probabilities and statistics at best, and voodoo at worst.
So unless our understanding has grown by a substantial amount since 1988, I'd say that we don't understand light completely. As such, we don't understand the behaviour of light in arbitrary situations, such as the double slit. Indeed, we can come up with some pretty sure probabilities by wrapping math around them, but we certainly don't intimately understand light.
I'm in no way trying to support the Gp, but how exactly has the double slit experiment been "explained completely via quantum mechanics."?
Sounds like you're taking that a little too far to me. There were multiple interpretations, but no complete explainations, the last time I checked.
Let me get this straight. You go to a website to have a password generated, leaving them with:
(a) An IP address of yours
(b) Some type of password of yours
???
p.s.: rails