Ok, interesting.
You're saying the information is really traveling from atom to atom along the length of the bar and reaching the person on the other end. Then there is some kind of compression that occurs between the atoms before each one affects the next and this cumulative effect keeps the information transfer under the speed of light? I don't buy it.
However, maybe what you bring up is what makes this thought experiment be an example of group velocity
Something I've never been able to get my head around, though, is I have a solid bar that stretches between two objects that are at relative rest in space. Let's say the masses of the bar, you, and me are significantly less than the masses of the two objects. I am standing on one of the objects and you are on the other. We are each holding one end of the bar.
I push on it.
Don't you immediately receive that information? Hasn't that info traveled faster than c?
I've never been able to get my head around that one.
Nice to see people still get in trouble for this. Working in the business world (or living in LA) too long can make you forget that some institutions take credentials seriously. I always like to see someone get some public humiliation for trying to create an academic image for themselves... like this guy
has been caught lying to the media and 'other' professors about
What's the cpu at when you're accessing content (watching a movie, reading a pdf, writing to disk)? That's when the encryption hit happens. I don't care if the cpu is idle when the OS isn't doing something. I care about what happens when it's doing work for me, ymmv.
What about the case where some over-served drunk asshole kills himself in a head-on collision with your wife? She's now an invalid you have to take care of 24/7 for the rest of your life? Are you prepared to allow that bar continues to serve patrons as much alcohol as they can pay for and be satisfied that each patron is responsible for their own actions?
Alcohol may be free (not as in beer;), but that doesn't mean that the purveyors of the drug shouldn't be regulated and held accountable for negligent actions. The anarchic society you're advocating is not one I'd like to live in.
I agree with your views on the small scale. I am as against government regulation as you are, but I do want laws in place that will limit the actions of those who refuse to take the responsibility for their actions that you and I do.
'Would you sue your own customers? I wouldn't and I don't believe Microsoft will ever do it,"... Ernie Ball might have something else to say about that.
And actually good documentation is written in Latin...
Totally OT, but your comment reminded me of this. A great piece of history from the Multics group about an error code that never was meant to see the light of day, yet, through circumstances, did show up once during an upgrade.
Joel Spolsky (of JoelOnSoftware fame) talked yesterday about how Microsoft handles their enormous build system. Apparently it's built on a fork of Perforce that MS paid for some time ago. Could this be an early warning sign of Google becoming Micro-soft?
Disclaimer: I've yet to work with Perforce, having not yet graduated from CVS, but at least I'm not using VSS.
Good point, Aladrin. By your argument, MS's version of LDAP, Active Directory, was an innovation. I was going to argue that there's no way this is the case, but, considering your definition, maybe AD was a significant innovation. For sure, it helped cement LDAP's usage and presence in the world. (This is heavily on my mind because I just got Apache2 to authenticate to our AD yesterday:)
I wrote an short entry in my blog about this last month. I wasted an afternoon because there's a checkbox that will disable.NET 2.0 pages in IIS, yet, the error page you get isn't a 5xx server error type page. It's a damn 404, file not found.
Isn't innovation, by definition, creating products that are so new that they create markets? The small things that help are only making new technologies more useful, not inspiring new generations.
I'll make my case as such. Microsoft did come up with the XMLHttpRequest object, but it took people outside MS to turn that into AJAX.
It's been said before, but I'll link you to it again. IETab for Firefox will allow users to register sites to use (or open arbitrary tabs) using IE. It's still using IE to visit those sites (through the magic of imbedding) but at least you get your users to get used to Firefox. Then just install cards extension and show them adblock and you may find them as converts.
http://ietab.mozdev.org/
There is no point in having a discussion about the next iPod killer if we're only going to talk in technical terms. The iPod is not the most popular device out there because of its features. In fact, when you factor in the price of the accessories, the iPod is one of the worst devices that exists IMHO. The reason the iPod is so popular and so common has nothing to do with its hardware specs.
iPod - had (and contiues to have) a large marketing machine behind it - had great Unix style KISS design http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle - had iTunes as a service to enable the non-techies to create and manage their libraries - was available when most people decided they wanted an mp3 player - was available when the consumer market for mp3 players was created - has dominated the market and become synonymous with the term mp3 player in many peoples minds and conversations - enjoys the inertia it has created
When a product gets to that point, it's very difficult to move it. The only thing that makes this different from Microsoft's dominance of the operating system market is that this is a hardware device and will eventually fail. Well... that and there no KISS design in Windows:).
Although the press release says nothing, I would assume that there is some good evidence pointing to the detection of dark matter.
In the August 2006 Discover magazine, there was an interesting piece about Mordehai Milgrom, a physicist who does not accept the dark matter theory. Basically, he has been able to retrofit Newton's equations to allow them to predict on the galactic scale (one of the reasons for the belief in dark matter). Being only an amateur physicist, I can't tell which method is the simpler, the one that only changes the equations, but (almost) no one buys, or the one that postulates the existence of matter that absorbs all electromagnetic energy. I can't wait to hear what this press release tells us.
I agree with many of the above comments. I think it's a good idea on paper, but a business needs to have direction and leadership in order to steer it in some direction. Can you imagine a ship where the navigation was done via majority rule? It wouldn't work.
I wish the OP luck in his/her business and will gladly admit closed-mindedness should this succeed, however, I predict the business will either quickly move away from this model for core decisions or fail from inertia of having to come to a consensus.
> The old warfrin poison trick still works, don't worry. Plus we could just breed > an army of cancer resistant snakes to take care of the mice. > Oh...
must... resist... can't...
cancer-resistant mongooses for the snakes cancer-resistant gorillas to rid us of the mongooses cancer-resistant tigers to attack the gorillas cancer-resistant elephants to take care of the tigers and cancer-resistant mice to scare the elephants
Come on comrade... Believing in something and knowing it to be completely false is the essence of doublethink. I'm surprised you aren't up on your lessons.
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was flexible enough to cover most of our demands (escalation, resolution times, email integration, etc)
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Ok, interesting. You're saying the information is really traveling from atom to atom along the length of the bar and reaching the person on the other end. Then there is some kind of compression that occurs between the atoms before each one affects the next and this cumulative effect keeps the information transfer under the speed of light? I don't buy it. However, maybe what you bring up is what makes this thought experiment be an example of group velocity
Something I've never been able to get my head around, though, is I have a solid bar that stretches between two objects that are at relative rest in space. Let's say the masses of the bar, you, and me are significantly less than the masses of the two objects. I am standing on one of the objects and you are on the other. We are each holding one end of the bar.
I push on it.
Don't you immediately receive that information? Hasn't that info traveled faster than c?
I've never been able to get my head around that one.
What's the cpu at when you're accessing content (watching a movie, reading a pdf, writing to disk)? That's when the encryption hit happens. I don't care if the cpu is idle when the OS isn't doing something. I care about what happens when it's doing work for me, ymmv.
What about the case where some over-served drunk asshole kills himself in a head-on collision with your wife? She's now an invalid you have to take care of 24/7 for the rest of your life? Are you prepared to allow that bar continues to serve patrons as much alcohol as they can pay for and be satisfied that each patron is responsible for their own actions?
;), but that doesn't mean that the purveyors of the drug shouldn't be regulated and held accountable for negligent actions. The anarchic society you're advocating is not one I'd like to live in.
Alcohol may be free (not as in beer
I agree with your views on the small scale. I am as against government regulation as you are, but I do want laws in place that will limit the actions of those who refuse to take the responsibility for their actions that you and I do.
ooooh short answer, "Yes," with an if, long answer, "No," with a but...
Totally OT, but your comment reminded me of this. A great piece of history from the Multics group about an error code that never was meant to see the light of day, yet, through circumstances, did show up once during an upgrade.
Disclaimer: I've yet to work with Perforce, having not yet graduated from CVS, but at least I'm not using VSS.
Good point, Aladrin. By your argument, MS's version of LDAP, Active Directory, was an innovation. I was going to argue that there's no way this is the case, but, considering your definition, maybe AD was a significant innovation. For sure, it helped cement LDAP's usage and presence in the world. (This is heavily on my mind because I just got Apache2 to authenticate to our AD yesterday :)
I wrote an short entry in my blog about this last month. I wasted an afternoon because there's a checkbox that will disable .NET 2.0 pages in IIS, yet, the error page you get isn't a 5xx server error type page. It's a damn 404, file not found.
Isn't innovation, by definition, creating products that are so new that they create markets? The small things that help are only making new technologies more useful, not inspiring new generations.
I'll make my case as such. Microsoft did come up with the XMLHttpRequest object, but it took people outside MS to turn that into AJAX.
Good point Shadowmist. In fact, there should be a new icon for these stories. The Apple logo with a meteor about to hit it.
Anyone else notice that A. Wbeelsoi is an anagram for A. Web O' Lies?
It's been said before, but I'll link you to it again. IETab for Firefox will allow users to register sites to use (or open arbitrary tabs) using IE. It's still using IE to visit those sites (through the magic of imbedding) but at least you get your users to get used to Firefox. Then just install cards extension and show them adblock and you may find them as converts. http://ietab.mozdev.org/
There is no point in having a discussion about the next iPod killer if we're only going to talk in technical terms. The iPod is not the most popular device out there because of its features. In fact, when you factor in the price of the accessories, the iPod is one of the worst devices that exists IMHO. The reason the iPod is so popular and so common has nothing to do with its hardware specs.
:).
iPod
- had (and contiues to have) a large marketing machine behind it
- had great Unix style KISS design http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle
- had iTunes as a service to enable the non-techies to create and manage their libraries
- was available when most people decided they wanted an mp3 player
- was available when the consumer market for mp3 players was created
- has dominated the market and become synonymous with the term mp3 player in many peoples minds and conversations
- enjoys the inertia it has created
When a product gets to that point, it's very difficult to move it. The only thing that makes this different from Microsoft's dominance of the operating system market is that this is a hardware device and will eventually fail. Well... that and there no KISS design in Windows
Although the press release says nothing, I would assume that there is some good evidence pointing to the detection of dark matter.
In the August 2006 Discover magazine, there was an interesting piece about Mordehai Milgrom, a physicist who does not accept the dark matter theory. Basically, he has been able to retrofit Newton's equations to allow them to predict on the galactic scale (one of the reasons for the belief in dark matter). Being only an amateur physicist, I can't tell which method is the simpler, the one that only changes the equations, but (almost) no one buys, or the one that postulates the existence of matter that absorbs all electromagnetic energy. I can't wait to hear what this press release tells us.
I agree with many of the above comments. I think it's a good idea on paper, but a business needs to have direction and leadership in order to steer it in some direction. Can you imagine a ship where the navigation was done via majority rule? It wouldn't work.
I wish the OP luck in his/her business and will gladly admit closed-mindedness should this succeed, however, I predict the business will either quickly move away from this model for core decisions or fail from inertia of having to come to a consensus.
If you put the new code together correctly will it form the plans for a dimensional portal?
> The old warfrin poison trick still works, don't worry. Plus we could just breed
> an army of cancer resistant snakes to take care of the mice.
> Oh...
must... resist... can't...
cancer-resistant mongooses for the snakes
cancer-resistant gorillas to rid us of the mongooses
cancer-resistant tigers to attack the gorillas
cancer-resistant elephants to take care of the tigers
and cancer-resistant mice to scare the elephants
lather, rinse, repeat
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Knowledge
War is Peace
Microsoft seeks to proprietize the Internet? I can't believe it.
Oh wait, sure I can: http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/
If you care about standards, you should take the time to read those.
Check out http://cerberusweb.com/. We used it as ticketing system at a former company.
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