Um...have some patience will ya! We need to get into space first before we can start reengineering the collapse of the universe so that it serves our needs. At the very least we'll need to manipulate large amounts of matter, probably a few billion galaxies or so, to have the influence we need. We're not going to figure out how to do that while sitting on our asses on Earth.
...if you need to display something on the surface of a cube then you're screwed. But have no fear, exp(pi*sqrt(163)) is here. Later today I'll file my patent application for a cubical screen and in a few years time you'll be able to purchase one of my cubical screen projectors for a reasonable price.
...an expert on space exploration? Or even just exploration? Is he an expert on predicting political and economic events? Does he have a proven track record in past socio-political events leading up to migrations? Is he an expert in space engineering? In organizing colonization? Is he any of these things? He's pretty good at physics and mathematics? (Though I have to say it took him a long time to figure out that information isn't lost at the event horizon so he's not that good.) Is there any crossover from these skills to the other domains of expertise that I mention?
If not, then why is his opinion being so widely reported?
...outsourcing to reveal how racist/. readers are. It's interesting how moderation reveals that racism isn't just an exception but is in fact the sanctioned norm of the 'community'. How easy it is to be enlightened until you think that it's your job that's threatened.
...they are capable of providing a gaming experience far in excess of anything a general-purpose computer could do at a similar price point. The reason for this is the use of customized graphics, sound, and CPU hardware
No, the reason why consoles can provide the experience they do at the price they do is that consoles are sold at low (or negative) profit margins so that the profit can be earned on the games instead. And that's why consoles aren't general purpose computers - they've been deliberately crippled so the supply of software (ie. cartridges or CDs in a special format) can be controlled.
...buy products using other people's DRM. It's that simple.
Protesting that a company selling a product that you are at liberty to buy (or not) is a restriction of your freedom has got to be just about the most bizarre thing I've heard since, well, at least 6am this morning.
The third dimension is merely an idea from trashy science fiction that has no relevance to reality. What next? People claiming that you can tie knots in pieces of string and that you can enclose a region of space with simply connected surface?
"Verbatim quotations from famous people without justification are a form of argument by authority and are both blind and lame." - exp(pi*sqrt(163)), Slashdot, 2006
...why don't we dumb down our speech to the point where computers can understand us? I propose that we all speak really slowly and clearly all the time and say everything three times so that voice recognition software has a chance of working. Outlaw the use of contractions and homophones. We should also make sure that every sentence we utter conforms strictly to a new and easily parsed form of English. If we do all of thes ethings then computers will be able to interact with us as equal partners rather than as the second class citizens that they are treated as today.
the finding also deepens the debate over what makes a planet
That must be 'deepens' as in the question of how many angels you can fit on a pinhead is deepened by the suggestion that maybe some angels are overweight.
There is nothing deep about what to call by the name 'planet'. Once there was a clear delineation between planets and non-planets. Now there isn't because we've seen objects that straddle the divide set by the old definition. Just define some new words. If astronomers can solve the solar neutrino problem then surely they can solve the 'define planet' problem. Reminds me of Wadler's Law.
People studying topology found they needed some pretty abstract tools. Some people came along and found they could divorce these tools even from topology making the esoteric branch of mathematics popularly known, even by mathematicians, as "abstract nonsense", though properly known as "category theory". And yet today people use category theory to understand datatypes in computer languages leading to ways to write code that put more burden on the compiler to find errors before your code starts running leading to happier end users.
This particular topology problem may or may not have a practical application. Topology itself has a few applications. And the mathematical tools developed by topologists will probably make their way into household items before too long.
Someone proposes a competition for cartoons about political interference in science and then you complain "it will be a right/republican bashing contest."
Well if the Republicans were actually able to field someone who (1) knew some science and (2) was funny, then it wouldn't be quite so one sided would it?
Sheesh, next you'll be complaining that a competition to illustrate the shape of the earth is just a flat-earther bashing contest.
...and it's news that the mayor of some city has made a pro-science speech? What kind of just-crawling-out-from-the-dark-ages country are we talking about?
People who claim to believe in God and heaven and all that crap:
Get unhappy when their friends and family die even though they're supposed to be getting to meet this so-called God
Do things when nobody is watching that they wouldn't do if someone were watching, making it plainly obvious they don't think God is watching them
Repeatedly chant (on Fridays, Saturdays or Sundays, depending on their flavor of claimed belief) "I believe in God", or some such thing. (Actually, the Saturday crew don't really have a creed but they still say things repeatedly that would imply such a statement.) I think I learned as a small child that things you say to yourself repeatedly are generally false because if they were true you wouldn't need to keep repeating them
Are often part of a community of claimed believers and so are under social pressure to claim belief regardless of what they actually believe
Are often inteligent and able to make quite sensible judgements about a wide variety of phenomena and so are unlikely to be so mistaken as to actually believe in God
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Fox: We present the facts, you make up your mind.
You mean the future of gaming is nice demos?
Um...have some patience will ya! We need to get into space first before we can start reengineering the collapse of the universe so that it serves our needs. At the very least we'll need to manipulate large amounts of matter, probably a few billion galaxies or so, to have the influence we need. We're not going to figure out how to do that while sitting on our asses on Earth.
...if you need to display something on the surface of a cube then you're screwed. But have no fear, exp(pi*sqrt(163)) is here. Later today I'll file my patent application for a cubical screen and in a few years time you'll be able to purchase one of my cubical screen projectors for a reasonable price.
If not, then why is his opinion being so widely reported?
...outsourcing to reveal how racist /. readers are. It's interesting how moderation reveals that racism isn't just an exception but is in fact the sanctioned norm of the 'community'. How easy it is to be enlightened until you think that it's your job that's threatened.
Protesting that a company selling a product that you are at liberty to buy (or not) is a restriction of your freedom has got to be just about the most bizarre thing I've heard since, well, at least 6am this morning.
More realistic? So you're saying they're actually fake? Sheesh! I make better looking fake stuff ten times a day.
The third dimension is merely an idea from trashy science fiction that has no relevance to reality. What next? People claiming that you can tie knots in pieces of string and that you can enclose a region of space with simply connected surface?
"Verbatim quotations from famous people without justification are a form of argument by authority and are both blind and lame." - exp(pi*sqrt(163)), Slashdot, 2006
...why don't we dumb down our speech to the point where computers can understand us? I propose that we all speak really slowly and clearly all the time and say everything three times so that voice recognition software has a chance of working. Outlaw the use of contractions and homophones. We should also make sure that every sentence we utter conforms strictly to a new and easily parsed form of English. If we do all of thes ethings then computers will be able to interact with us as equal partners rather than as the second class citizens that they are treated as today.
There is nothing deep about what to call by the name 'planet'. Once there was a clear delineation between planets and non-planets. Now there isn't because we've seen objects that straddle the divide set by the old definition. Just define some new words. If astronomers can solve the solar neutrino problem then surely they can solve the 'define planet' problem. Reminds me of Wadler's Law.
This particular topology problem may or may not have a practical application. Topology itself has a few applications. And the mathematical tools developed by topologists will probably make their way into household items before too long.
You should see the error rate among people who still use pen and paper to make vital calculations.
OK, so it's worse than I thought. They've only heard about science in the big cities.
I hope they cleaned up after themselves.
Someone proposes a competition for cartoons about political interference in science and then you complain "it will be a right/republican bashing contest." Well if the Republicans were actually able to field someone who (1) knew some science and (2) was funny, then it wouldn't be quite so one sided would it? Sheesh, next you'll be complaining that a competition to illustrate the shape of the earth is just a flat-earther bashing contest.
...and it's news that the mayor of some city has made a pro-science speech? What kind of just-crawling-out-from-the-dark-ages country are we talking about?
A bunch of people have been paid 5 month's salary for 3 months work. How is that 'fucking'?
This is quality work compared to Christian cartoons.
No, you believe me. It'll be cracked faster than you imagine.
I've been using a nano for a while now. I can't see anything wrong with the screen.
People who claim to believe in God and heaven and all that crap:
So I unhesitatingly accuse you of being a liar.