Anybody know if it's active, with volcanoes, or just a lump of cold rock? If there is any source of heat like that, it seems to me the possibility of life could not be completely ruled out. Obviously nothing too complicated, but maybe something like the bacteria in the hydrothermal vent communities. Is it impossible to see through the clouds to be able to tell?
It's a shame, but the discussion on this board devolved into the abortion debate, and the hooting has all but drowned out the truth. Thank you for trying to bring truth and reason to the table.
Violence and carnage have existed as long as man has. There is a dark side to human nature, and repressing it will not make it go away. Look what happened in Victorian England. I think we need to understand and accept the dark side of human nature, release our baser instincts in ways that are not damaging to society, and teach our children self-restraint, as opposed to self-denial.
There will always be people who "think to do... disgusting and wrong actions." The Nazis didn't need video games or movies to help them think up the holocaust. Jack the ripper didn't have hollywood to spur him to his madness. It's always been there, and blaming society is missing the point entirely.
I found numerous references to a Skeptic magazine article by Aaron Barth, but not the article itself. I did find this, but I don't know enough of the underlying theory to judge whether it is a better refutation than the one referenced in my original post. I also found no end of people who disparage Mills both for his work and for his tactics.
The problem with your argument is that it ignores the importance of a robust economy to all citizens. Certainly big business has a tremendous amount of influence on government, but we all benefit from the successes of american corporations. The system is not perfect, but it has made this country the economic world-leader, and that's a good thing. I know it has improved my quality of life, and I'll bet it has improved yours.
How much physics do you know? The science used to refute the claims of the hydrino is extremely well grounded in years of experiment. You'd have to do a hell of a lot more than he has done to get me to doubt the E & M work of Maxwell or the uncertainty principle of Heisenberg.
Will someone with a PhD in physics please provide a cogent response to:
Except we need a revolution in atomic science to make sense of things. How come we can get over 200 completely unique elements with nothing more than three different subatomic particles? And while you're at it, how come they can form molecules that have nothing in common with any of the parent elements?
I'm confident he's wrong, and would like an expert's opinion.
There is a very interesting refutation of hydrino theory here. The author uses basic E & M, a little calculus, and the uncertainty principle to assert that the Bohr radius is the minimum energy for a Hydrogen atom's electron. I'd love to see someone refute the argument.
Well, I would love to have one. I think it's a better form-factor than a laptop. You get everything a laptop can do, plus you have the pen option. In a year or so when they are not so novel, I think the price difference between a standard laptop and a tablet will be minimal, and I for one would look for a tablet.
M$ has published reference material on what standards can be found throughout their UIs to make it easy for programmers to write apps that look like M$ apps. Not that they have the perfect UI, but they have spent some effort copy^H^H^H^H developing theirs, and they are sharing the details quite freely.
It's an awfully big damn universe, with ample space for hundreds of thousands of life bearing planets that are precluded from communicating by the laws of physics. Even if we do find life, chances are it won't be life "as we know it." I'm sure there are things in the universe we could not begin to imagine.
Five billion candidates? Seems to me like they should have weeded some of those out along the way. Wasn't that the point of getting all that computational power, to come up with a manageable sample of promising possibilities?
I agree. We don't need to train code poets, we need to train software engineers. The problem with software development is not too much engineering, it's too little.
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Performance isn't the only issue. We build custom PC-like devices from parts for use in health care, and we are constantly struggling to get a steady supply of parts that will be the same for more than a few months. Hard drives are about the worst, and IDE hard drives have a market lifespan of a few months. It can be a paperwork and testing nightmare to change the hard drive you use frequently. SCSI has a much longer lifespan in the market.
There is also the reliability factor. SCSI drives tend to be more robust.
I'm working on a project where we use an IDE Raid card for data backup on a computer/device we ship to customers. We use a simple mirror, basically just insurance against a hard drive crash. It's allowed us to keep our costs much lower than they would have been with SCSI. We have only had to recover one time, but it was very easy.
I wouldn't teach them installation, I think it's far more important to get them using the system. I would start them out with some command-line stuff, though. That'll give them some historical perspective, and reduce the fear-factor if they ever need to go into command line to recover from a crash. I would definitely warn the parents about the CDs.
I don't remember if Feynman mentioned meeting Einstein in "Surely..." but he does talk about meeting Enrico Fermi and the infamous Klaus Fuchs.
He does, he was asked to give a lecture, and the great man was there, along with Bohr and others. Can you imagine being a grad student giving a talk to a room full of the giants of physics!
Another thing that irks me is the whole idea of wanting to know what people like Einstein were "really like." This always results in a deluge of personal details, the publication of which is not only disrespectful of the dead but largely useless. I mean, he was a brilliant physicist: do I really need to read his poetry from when he was 15?
I couldn't agree more. I don't care what Einstein, or Newton was like as a person. I agree that it is important to remember that these guys were human, but all that takes is common sense, not exposure to their most private lives.
If you want to know what a brilliant phycisist is like, read Feynman. He wrote (with a ghost writer) about himself, volunteering the information.
Working 40+ hours is simply not acceptable, even if you like it. You're contributing to a bad culture.
I sometimes work long hours, and I sometimes work short hours. I'm sure I average more than 40 hours a week, but I'm not working 50 or 60. For me, the flexibility I gain is more than worth the extra work. I don't think it's a bad culture that I personally contribute to, and I do have time to do the things I like to do.
What are you doing for your community? Do you know people out of work? Do you think this is good for a society? Where everyone works, and no one volunteers?
I think a society where everyone works is a very good thing, and I don't support volunteering to help people who don't work. I do support helping people who help themselves.
I have done both jobs in my life, and there is no comparison. The only benefit of the factory job was that it was somewhat less stressful, but it was also much less rewarding. I am much better off with my developer job.
I work in a highly collaborative, challenging environment. I sometimes work long hours, but my time is extremely flexible and I am almost entirely self-directed. The job has it's stresses, but it's the best job I've ever had, and I wouldn't trade it.
When I talk to the other employees in other departments, I see that the developers have much more security, and much better working conditions, than anyone but the executives.
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Anybody know if it's active, with volcanoes, or just a lump of cold rock? If there is any source of heat like that, it seems to me the possibility of life could not be completely ruled out. Obviously nothing too complicated, but maybe something like the bacteria in the hydrothermal vent communities. Is it impossible to see through the clouds to be able to tell?
from this story? I was sure we had used up all possible IN SOVIET RUSSIA jokes there.
There will always be people who "think to do ... disgusting and wrong actions." The Nazis didn't need video games or movies to help them think up the holocaust. Jack the ripper didn't have hollywood to spur him to his madness. It's always been there, and blaming society is missing the point entirely.
Thanks for shedding additional light on this. I still have strong doubts about Mills' theory, but much less confidence in my position.
I found numerous references to a Skeptic magazine article by Aaron Barth, but not the article itself. I did find this, but I don't know enough of the underlying theory to judge whether it is a better refutation than the one referenced in my original post. I also found no end of people who disparage Mills both for his work and for his tactics.
Thanks for the correction. If you have seen Randell Mills' work, I wonder what you think of his math?
The problem with your argument is that it ignores the importance of a robust economy to all citizens. Certainly big business has a tremendous amount of influence on government, but we all benefit from the successes of american corporations. The system is not perfect, but it has made this country the economic world-leader, and that's a good thing. I know it has improved my quality of life, and I'll bet it has improved yours.
How much physics do you know? The science used to refute the claims of the hydrino is extremely well grounded in years of experiment. You'd have to do a hell of a lot more than he has done to get me to doubt the E & M work of Maxwell or the uncertainty principle of Heisenberg.
I'm confident he's wrong, and would like an expert's opinion.
Well, I would love to have one. I think it's a better form-factor than a laptop. You get everything a laptop can do, plus you have the pen option. In a year or so when they are not so novel, I think the price difference between a standard laptop and a tablet will be minimal, and I for one would look for a tablet.
M$ has published reference material on what standards can be found throughout their UIs to make it easy for programmers to write apps that look like M$ apps. Not that they have the perfect UI, but they have spent some effort copy^H^H^H^H developing theirs, and they are sharing the details quite freely.
It's an awfully big damn universe, with ample space for hundreds of thousands of life bearing planets that are precluded from communicating by the laws of physics. Even if we do find life, chances are it won't be life "as we know it." I'm sure there are things in the universe we could not begin to imagine.
Five billion candidates? Seems to me like they should have weeded some of those out along the way. Wasn't that the point of getting all that computational power, to come up with a manageable sample of promising possibilities?
I agree. We don't need to train code poets, we need to train software engineers. The problem with software development is not too much engineering, it's too little.
There is also the reliability factor. SCSI drives tend to be more robust.
I'm working on a project where we use an IDE Raid card for data backup on a computer/device we ship to customers. We use a simple mirror, basically just insurance against a hard drive crash. It's allowed us to keep our costs much lower than they would have been with SCSI. We have only had to recover one time, but it was very easy.
I wouldn't teach them installation, I think it's far more important to get them using the system. I would start them out with some command-line stuff, though. That'll give them some historical perspective, and reduce the fear-factor if they ever need to go into command line to recover from a crash. I would definitely warn the parents about the CDs.
He does, he was asked to give a lecture, and the great man was there, along with Bohr and others. Can you imagine being a grad student giving a talk to a room full of the giants of physics!
I couldn't agree more. I don't care what Einstein, or Newton was like as a person. I agree that it is important to remember that these guys were human, but all that takes is common sense, not exposure to their most private lives.
If you want to know what a brilliant phycisist is like, read Feynman. He wrote (with a ghost writer) about himself, volunteering the information.
I sometimes work long hours, and I sometimes work short hours. I'm sure I average more than 40 hours a week, but I'm not working 50 or 60. For me, the flexibility I gain is more than worth the extra work. I don't think it's a bad culture that I personally contribute to, and I do have time to do the things I like to do.
What are you doing for your community? Do you know people out of work? Do you think this is good for a society? Where everyone works, and no one volunteers?
I think a society where everyone works is a very good thing, and I don't support volunteering to help people who don't work. I do support helping people who help themselves.
I have done both jobs in my life, and there is no comparison. The only benefit of the factory job was that it was somewhat less stressful, but it was also much less rewarding. I am much better off with my developer job.
When I talk to the other employees in other departments, I see that the developers have much more security, and much better working conditions, than anyone but the executives.
I'm sure Winona Ryder is looking forward to RFIDs at Nordstrom's.