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  1. Re:Okay, let me say this... on The Speed Of Gravity Revealed · · Score: 1

    Yes, relative speed between the objects also effects time,

    true

    I'm not saying gravity is the only effect going on, but know that Lorentz Space-Time is a /simplification/, ...

    False, Lorentz space time is the _solution_ to Einstein's field equation when there is zero stress-energy and therefore no gravity. When there is no gravity, you end up with Special Relativity. If you didn't, then GR would be suspect of being incorrect.

    What is important to note is that just as a complete lack of motion would negate the need to define time

    A complete lack of change would remove the need for time. And if you consider all change to be "motion", then that would be true. So in some classical sense, yes.

    a complete lack of gravity would negate the need- as far as the universe is concerned, to define space.

    False. Without gravity you have Lorentz space time. Quantum Mechanics works without any gravity at all!

    Gravity's distortion of space is what defines it. What does this have to do with anything? Without a definition of space, there is no way to define motion- motion isnt occuring. This means that suddenly Lorentz Space-Time doesnt work either.

    False. Gravity's distortion of space does not define space, it defines the distortion of space. There is plenty of motion that has nothing to do with gravity. You could have photons traveling through empty space - motion without gravity.

    Maybe the reason there's so many posts about this that need your "correction" is that, well, they are right?

    I have read Wheeler's book, Dirac's book, and even Pauli's fucking book on general fucking relativity. How many fucking GR books have you read. God damnit I am sick of all you stupid slashdot, fucking, idiots. You people think that because you know how to turn a fucking computer on that you understand the mysteries of the universe.

    I'm never posting on this website again. You fucktards can can keep you ignorance and moderate it up until you all fucking choke on it.

  2. Re:Relativity vs. Quantum [OFF TOPIC PHYSICS Q] on The Speed Of Gravity Revealed · · Score: 1

    in short, no

    if you could do this, then you would be world famous - therefore I am pretty sure that you can't

    if you have a pair of entanged electrons and you collapse one, then a random eigenstate will pop out. Same with the other. No information is passed, because it was random.

    I think that what you are saying is that you want to set up one of the particles as a quantum register after transmitting the other. And that you want the other particle to be a quantum register too? How can you do that?

    As for you last paragraph, I don't understand what you are saying, but perhaps you are not taking Special Relativity into account for something, as c is the limit for nonrandom stuff.

  3. Re:Nintendo is doing better than you think. on Playstation 3 Gathering Components · · Score: 1

    Jesus Christ people, I am not attacking the GameCube.

    I am refuting the argument that the PS2's future is one with few good games.

    My claim is that, the PS2 has been and is #1, and therefore good games will come at least through the next development cycle.

    The only negative statement that I have made against the GC is that it is improbable for it to surpass the PS2 in one year. I find that to be a reasonable statement.

  4. Re:PSOne at a good clip? PS2 long-life? on Playstation 3 Gathering Components · · Score: 1

    If you looked at the console shipping figures of 1992 (a year after the release of the SNES in North America), you'd be saying that the 16-bit console wars are "over," with Sega being the clear winner.

    The tide did change, but developers did not jump ships in mass. The Genesis was still a worthwhile console to own with plenty of great games being made - all the way up to the end.

    The SNES had superior graphics and sound that were impossible not to notice. The gap in preformance (though noticablem, especially loading speed) is not as great here.

    But more importantly the SNES was only released in 1991! So this little factiod is completely inapplicable. The Game Cube was released in 2001, it is no longer brand new.

    GameCube numbers may be down in North America and Japan, but they are growing quickly. More quickly than Sony's numbers. They may catch up to Sony this year.

    I am afraid that is simply not probable. The gamecube would have to sell much more than its entire userbase in one single year. The market is too saturated for that.

    The best thing that nintendo could do to reach any growth approaching that would be to focus on the connectivity with the GBA, which is by far the most popular device.

  5. Re:Okay, let me say this... on The Speed Of Gravity Revealed · · Score: 1

    Hell, if you took gravity out of the equation instants would run together and all things which define time would go away- gravity causes time.

    In the case of no gravity, you get Lorentz Space-Time. Time is fine.

    And what we are looking for is the speed at which gravitational information is exchanged.

    Consider 2 masses, very far apart. There is gravity between them. If one moves, how long until the other one feels it (the gravitational 'pull' changing). This is what is meant.

    Moderators note: I hate Slashdot during science articles. This is like the 4th comment that I have corrected, and by far the worst. If you don't understand something, don't moderate it just because it sounds interesting.

  6. Re:Relativity vs. Quantum on The Speed Of Gravity Revealed · · Score: 1

    Yes, but you cannot send any _information_ faster than the speed of light.

    You have no control over how the wavefunction will collapse.

  7. Re:not quite right on The Speed Of Gravity Revealed · · Score: 1

    Wow maybe what you say is true.

    Uh Oh, looks like you need to rewrite special relativity now that all of the energy formula's come out wrong.

    And while you are at it, you will have to rewrite General Relativity (after Special Relativity of course), The Klein Gordon Equation, The Dirac Equation, then rederive the existence of the positron.

    As for E&M, we can no longer use the Coulomb potential, and we must now use the Yukawa potential. Opps, experiment doesn't match theory. You must rewrite all of Electricity and Magnetism.

    Oh boy, we are back at Newtonian mechanics in the pre-industrial era. How much fun it will be to rederive everything from scratch.

    I hope you take this kindly :)

  8. Re:Event Horizon on The Speed Of Gravity Revealed · · Score: 1

    (1) E^2 = (c*P)^2 + (c^2*m)^2
    (2) E = m*c^2/sqrt(1-(v/c)^2)

    Light has energy
    Light has momentum
    Light has NO mass

    If light had mass, then light would have infinite energy, see eq 2.
    = m*c^2/sqrt(1-(c/c)^2)
    = m*c^2/sqrt(1-1)
    = m*c^2/sqrt(0)
    = m*c^2/0
    = Inf, if m != 0

  9. Re:PSOne at a good clip? PS2 long-life? on Playstation 3 Gathering Components · · Score: 1

    "The PS2 is nearing the end of its life."

    As long as we are quoting Japanese shipping figures.

    System Dec 16 - Dec 22 Total Sales in 2002
    GBA 325,400 3,146,900
    PS2 154,000 3,511,200
    GC 76,900 1,129,300
    XB 16,200 312,400
    PSone 5,700 219,000

    This generation of console wars is over as far as first place is concerned. The number one system is always going to attract developers and have plenty of good games.

    If all the good developers just diffused to their favorite environment, then why have there been so many good PC games running on DOS and Windows - especially in DOS and especially in all versions of Windows up until about DX5-6.

    Don't let your purchasing choices and ties colour your perception.

  10. Re:What I care about on Playstation 3 Gathering Components · · Score: 1

    By default you have to turn on the texture smoothing and cd speedup. They are less compatible - for example certain games stream music or movies off the disc just as fast as they are read and faster disc speeds will fudge this up.

    The one (big) thing that bleem does do that the PS2 doesn't is increasing the resolution for polygonal games. Of course this causes many more incompatibilities and that is why bleem must be custom programed for individual games and the PS2 enhancement works more in general.

    The texture smoothing works wonders for games that dither colors like FF9 and Vagrant Story. But as for your assertion that these games would compete with their PS2 counterparts, I can only hope that you are sleep deprived.

  11. Re:such accuracy... not on New Estimates for Universe's Age · · Score: 1

    Personally, I'm of the opinion that homo sapiens did evolve--and then, just about the time of the neolithic revolution, God made one example from dust, whose offspring have wandered throughout the world, mating the animals that just happen to be completely indentical to themselves.

    If you could only hear your self from where I sit.

  12. Re:The universe is 5 hours and 47 minutes old. on New Estimates for Universe's Age · · Score: 1

    I'll answer the question, but first you must prove to me that you exist.

  13. Re:My prediction... on How Will Animals Look 250 Million Years From Now? · · Score: 1

    everyone laughs and thinks that the duckbilled platypus is funny looking. fine, mod me as a troll

    But the duckbilled platypus has a spur on its rear legs that is used for defense and that thing fucking hurts

    I'm just warning you all

  14. Re:I saw it and wasn't impressed... on How Will Animals Look 250 Million Years From Now? · · Score: 1

    I was speaking about the insects my friend

    Insects have an open circulatory system.

  15. Re:My prediction... on How Will Animals Look 250 Million Years From Now? · · Score: 0, Troll

    fuckers don't look so funny when they dig that poisonous spur into you

    don't pick them up

  16. Re:I saw it and wasn't impressed... on How Will Animals Look 250 Million Years From Now? · · Score: 3, Informative

    the exoskeleton is a problem

    but most important is their open circulatory system is not capable of delivering oxygen and removing toxins from a large body

    OTOH squids have some amazingly diverse evolved traits, little would surprise me

  17. Re:Frankly, I didn't like it on How Will Animals Look 250 Million Years From Now? · · Score: 2, Informative
    1. yes, there are. there are fish with extended fins that can glide. and squid can propel themseleves as well.
    2. they are very intelligent and can travel on land if needed. They also have very advanced eyes
    3. other sea life does it. some jellyfish and squid. for squid, the changing colors hypnotizes prey.
    4. ???
  18. Re:Hell, think of Pocket Calculators on My Segway HT "Month-iversary" · · Score: 2, Funny

    peh

    just take 1/2 the log, pretty boy

    all true geeks had a log log duplex or such

  19. Re:What lousy methodology. on Number of Jobs by Programming Language · · Score: 1

    Hmm, let's see

    searches corresponding sets
    "C" {C}+{C++}+{C#}+{C,C++}+{C,C#}+{C++,C#}+{C,C++,C#}
    "C not C++" {C}+ +{C#}+ +{C,C#}
    "C not C#" {C}+{C++}+ +{C,C++}
    "C not C++ not C#" {C}
    "C++" {C++}+ +{C,C++}+ +{C++,C#}+{C,C++,C#}
    "C#" {C#}+ +{C,C#}+{C++,C#}+{C,C++,C#}
    "C++ and C#" {C++,C#}+{C,C++,C#}

    You are correct. This matrix is singular (this linear system cannot be solved). The search cannot seperate {C++,C#} and {C,C++,C#} jobs.

    Though you could find the extrema by solving with {C++,C#} held at zero and {C,C++,C#} help at zero seperately. I assume that the true solution lies between those values. Though I do not care enough to prove it.

    However, as for Java and JavaScript

    searches corresponding sets
    "Java" {J}+{JS}+{J,JS}
    "JavaScript" {JS}+{J,JS}
    "JavaScript not Java" {JS}

    This is trivially solved.

    {J}+{J,JS} = "Java" - "JavaScript not Java"
    {JS}+{J,JS}= "JavaScript"

  20. Re:Cannot be done! on Oregon Considers GPS-based Road Taxes · · Score: 2, Funny

    California has 35 million residents. Oregon has like 3.5 million.

    Manufacurers will probably make a hood orniment GPS in the shape of a beaver.

  21. Re:Cannot be done! on Oregon Considers GPS-based Road Taxes · · Score: 1

    Ah.. You have to get a license, BUT if you have an out of state relative own the said vehicle, you can easily avoid getting Maryland plates/state inspection/exhaust inspection.

    At least, that's what I have been doing, and I haven't been in trouble so far.

  22. Re:Alas, my poor field of study... on Top 25 Science Stories of 2002 · · Score: 1

    All theoretical chemistry is really physics;
    and all theoretical chemists know it. -- Richard P. Feynman

  23. Re:Post your worst PC game nomination here. on Top Ten Shameful Games · · Score: 1

    Argh, that game was shite.

    The characters were some how oversized and this made Dhalsim an undefeatable character, as he could strike from across the screen.

    The controls were impossible. Forget throwing fireballs more than 1/5 attempts. Forget spinning piledrivers, ever.

    Damage didn't register until seconds after landing blows. You could jump in with Chun-Li, kick someone to death, and then get hit by them before they fell dead.

    The combos were totally fucked up. Since when can Chun-Li and E. Honda kill someone with one combo.

    I actually returned this game to K-mart

    But surprisingly SSF2 was an excellent port on the PC. The graphics and control were good. The music was wonderfully recomposed for to play off the CD tracks.

    SNES and Genisis, and 3DO ports were all good. The turbographics16 port was a bit shitty, but what can you really expect from that system.

  24. Re:Feng Shui on China Forges Ahead With 'Dragon' CPU · · Score: 1

    score!

  25. Re:It's Amazing on Sklyarov Discusses the ElcomSoft Trial · · Score: 1

    The original intent of the knife was to kill as well, so we should ignore any and all other uses anyone can come up with and make knives illegal on that basis alone

    That analogy is soo true. Didn't you see the Simpsons episode where homer uses his gun to turn off the lights, turn off the tv, open his beer, ...