Actually, there's even better than that - there's this stuff called 'Provigil' that's supposed have effects very similar to those of taking a nap. It's not a stimulant, it's a nap in a pill!
Um... my only superstition about this is that if you sell your liver when you die, then only rich people with liver disease will get livers. Poor people with liver disease would have to go way into debt to purchase a free market liver... or die.
It is not OK just to copy and paste the article text in your article submission. You can say something like 'The Register writes "..."' but you can't just take credit for it. And come on, Hemos, can't you RTFA before you post it?
As I said, I've never heard of this; could you refer me to a source? As it is, it sounds like you're confusing the properties of the wavefunctions of the particules with the properties of the particles themselves. The collapse of the wavefunction is indeed superluminal, and the phase velocity of a wavepacket can definitely be faster than the speed of light. However, were one to measure the speed of a photon, you'd always get c (or less than c, depending on the medium).
This is not impossible, because, contrary to what most ppl think, lightspeed is in fact an average; within one beam, there can be photons that are moving slightly slower, and photons that move slightly faster then the speed of light.
Uhh... what? No. I've never heard of such a crazy thing. Not in any accepted theories of physics, anyway. The speed of light is a fundamental property of the geometry of space-time.
Orbdev has been on slashdot before; if you recall, these guys are suing NASA for parking a probe on "their" asteroid. Take a minute to poke around their website - after I realized who these guys are, I realized there's no way they'll ever be able to figure out a way to get some millionaire's 10 kg of trash to the moon. Total and utter crackpots.
There's a balance everyone needs to draw between getting shit done and enjoying themselves. People simply aren't designed to be productive 24/7. In my experience, I become more productive if I waste a certain proportion of my time playing video games or watching TV or poking around slashdot... I think it's kind of sick that people feel guilty about relaxing with a video game or plopping down in front of the TV every once in a while.
The most produductive person I know also watches more TV and plays more video games than anyone else I know; why? Because when she does work, she's fresh and able to think clearly and tear through it, because she doesn't spend her down time feeling guilty about wasting time. Don't make the puritanical assumption that enjoying yourself is wrong, because in the long run, you'll have a more productive (and happier) life if you're not obsessed with making every moment prouctive.
As has been pointed out, you are not anonymous when you use bitTorrent. If you're stupid enough to download from the links in the parent, there's a very good chance that someone at microsoft or even the FBI will be logging your IP address. Don't be stupid - ignore the parent.
Actually, you can easily join the torrent without uploading... just use the option --maxuploadrate 0. One wonders if they're smart enough to do this, though; after all, bitTorrent is open source, which is the devil.
Ever notice how any site which bills itself as "The Internet's Funniest x" or "Canada's Source for Internet Humour" or what-have-you is automatically unfunny? That sort of thing needs to be done with a straight face (e.g. The Onion) otherwise it's the comic equivalent of some idiot prancing around in his underwear.
Congratulations to simoniker, poster of the most inanely paranoid comment I have ever read here on slashdot. And that's saying something.
I have to admit, when I first read the story I thought someone was being paranoid. But you really should RTF robots.txt file before you accuse the poster of being paranoid. The disallowed files are extraordinarily specific. I really can't come up with a plausible explanation beyond simoniker's.
It occurred to me, as I was reading this article, that in the Shopping Experience of the Future(TM), we're moving increasingly towards a society where we don't have to interact with any other people. In this new model, you can go to the store and don't need to talk to a cashier or the nice man at the butcher counter.
Does anyone else agree? Thanks to amazon.com and stop & shop, I can now make all of my purchases without talking to another human being... That seems significant, somehow, although I'm not exactly sure what it means...
I agree - the author doesn't know what he's talking about, and his attitude that "if it defies common sense, it must be nonsense" is unbelievably silly. His derisive comments towards quantum theory are particularly telling; quantum mechanics is, indisputably, the most successful physical theory ever concieved (this is not hyperbole - any physicist will tell you this).
I find it ironic that the author talks about how knowledge is only gained through hard work, and today's physicists are just lazy - yet quantum mechanics represents a collosal achievement that resists all attempts at falsification.
To wit - Tony Leggett, today's nobel prize winner for superfluidity, began his research as an attempt to discredit quantum mechanics. His final results, instead, became (yet another) stunning confirmation of the quantum theory's incredible accuracy in describing the physical world.
*marketing* does not make quality. I never heard of this Taguchi guy.
I'm confused... you quoted the article... so how did you not read TFA?
The whole point is that the Taguchi method is an engineering technique that is now being applied to marketing. Taguchi himself has nothing to do with marketing.
Um... mods, please pay attention. This is +3 informative like "we know that Iraq is buying uranium from nigeria" is +3 informative. That is to say, it isn't.
The only statement that has a whiff of truth is
It was the liberal Democrats who argued that absentee ballots from oversea military personnel shouldn't be counted.
Almost true - in a huge front-page story a few months after the election, the New York Times published Republican Party Memos that instructing the GOP election monitors to challenge the authenticity of all military votes for Gore, but to fight vigorously for the ones for Bush.
[poof]What's that sound? Ohhh - it's your Fox News style "truth" evaporating in the face of actual facts.
The reason they're not enforcable is that you are asked to sign it after you've already paid for the software. If they were to have any smidgen of legal validity, you would have to sign the EULA as part of the transaction when you buy the software itself.
So, no, even if they made you mouse-sign your EULA, it still wouldn't mean jack.
Along similar lines, Deus Ex saved my relationship (well, at least temporarily). My girlfriend would come home and demand that I stop doing homework and start playing. She got incredibly invovled in the storyline, and would rush home every day so that I wouldn't play through a level without her - pretty amazing for a girl who would threaten to break up with me whenever she caught me watching or reading anything even remotely related to science fiction.
In doing research a few years back, an advisor gave me these pointers on dealing with new "theories" that might be A)scientifically unimportant (metaphysical instead of physical), or B)are complete crackpot science. We ask these 2 questions:
-What experimental predictions does this new model make? i.e. the theory must be falsifiable
-Why is this new model better than current theories? i.e. the new theory should contain as few parameters as possible
For instance, Einstein's papers made some bold experimental predictions - his theory could easily be proved or disproved on the basis of experiment (time dilation, specifically, is easily testable). Further, special relativity completed the unification of electricity and magnetism and accounted for the trouble in detecting the ether - making his theory preferable to old concepts, which could not account for various "coincidences" in Maxwell's equations. If anyone is going to be comparing this guy to Einstein, his theory had better be clearing up some holes in modern physics or making some bold new experimentally testable predictions.
So, has anyone read the actual paper? Does it give an answer to these questions? And is Foundations of Physics Letters a respectable journal? I've never heard of it before in my life.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, there's even better than that - there's this stuff called 'Provigil' that's supposed have effects very similar to those of taking a nap. It's not a stimulant, it's a nap in a pill!
their off? Their off?
Congratulations, hemos, you just made baby jesus cry.
Um ... my only superstition about this is that if you sell your liver when you die, then only rich people with liver disease will get livers. Poor people with liver disease would have to go way into debt to purchase a free market liver ... or die.
It is not OK just to copy and paste the article text in your article submission. You can say something like 'The Register writes " ..."' but you can't just take credit for it. And come on, Hemos, can't you RTFA before you post it?
As I said, I've never heard of this; could you refer me to a source? As it is, it sounds like you're confusing the properties of the wavefunctions of the particules with the properties of the particles themselves. The collapse of the wavefunction is indeed superluminal, and the phase velocity of a wavepacket can definitely be faster than the speed of light. However, were one to measure the speed of a photon, you'd always get c (or less than c, depending on the medium).
Uhh ... what? No. I've never heard of such a crazy thing. Not in any accepted theories of physics, anyway. The speed of light is a fundamental property of the geometry of space-time.
Orbdev has been on slashdot before; if you recall, these guys are suing NASA for parking a probe on "their" asteroid. Take a minute to poke around their website - after I realized who these guys are, I realized there's no way they'll ever be able to figure out a way to get some millionaire's 10 kg of trash to the moon. Total and utter crackpots.
There's a balance everyone needs to draw between getting shit done and enjoying themselves. People simply aren't designed to be productive 24/7. In my experience, I become more productive if I waste a certain proportion of my time playing video games or watching TV or poking around slashdot ... I think it's kind of sick that people feel guilty about relaxing with a video game or plopping down in front of the TV every once in a while.
The most produductive person I know also watches more TV and plays more video games than anyone else I know; why? Because when she does work, she's fresh and able to think clearly and tear through it, because she doesn't spend her down time feeling guilty about wasting time. Don't make the puritanical assumption that enjoying yourself is wrong, because in the long run, you'll have a more productive (and happier) life if you're not obsessed with making every moment prouctive.
As has been pointed out, you are not anonymous when you use bitTorrent. If you're stupid enough to download from the links in the parent, there's a very good chance that someone at microsoft or even the FBI will be logging your IP address. Don't be stupid - ignore the parent.
Actually, you can easily join the torrent without uploading ... just use the option --maxuploadrate 0. One wonders if they're smart enough to do this, though; after all, bitTorrent is open source, which is the devil.
And of those one in a thousand who are geniuses, 99% of them are also full of crap.
Ever notice how any site which bills itself as "The Internet's Funniest x" or "Canada's Source for Internet Humour" or what-have-you is automatically unfunny? That sort of thing needs to be done with a straight face (e.g. The Onion) otherwise it's the comic equivalent of some idiot prancing around in his underwear.
I have to admit, when I first read the story I thought someone was being paranoid. But you really should RTF robots.txt file before you accuse the poster of being paranoid. The disallowed files are extraordinarily specific. I really can't come up with a plausible explanation beyond simoniker's.
Does anyone else agree? Thanks to amazon.com and stop & shop, I can now make all of my purchases without talking to another human being ... That seems significant, somehow, although I'm not exactly sure what it means ...
I find it ironic that the author talks about how knowledge is only gained through hard work, and today's physicists are just lazy - yet quantum mechanics represents a collosal achievement that resists all attempts at falsification.
To wit - Tony Leggett, today's nobel prize winner for superfluidity, began his research as an attempt to discredit quantum mechanics. His final results, instead, became (yet another) stunning confirmation of the quantum theory's incredible accuracy in describing the physical world.
I don't feel any smarter, but they are giving out free champagne later today, which I suppose makes up for it.
I'm confused ... you quoted the article ... so how did you not read TFA?
The whole point is that the Taguchi method is an engineering technique that is now being applied to marketing. Taguchi himself has nothing to do with marketing.
The only statement that has a whiff of truth is
Almost true - in a huge front-page story a few months after the election, the New York Times published Republican Party Memos that instructing the GOP election monitors to challenge the authenticity of all military votes for Gore, but to fight vigorously for the ones for Bush.[poof]What's that sound? Ohhh - it's your Fox News style "truth" evaporating in the face of actual facts.
The reason they're not enforcable is that you are asked to sign it after you've already paid for the software. If they were to have any smidgen of legal validity, you would have to sign the EULA as part of the transaction when you buy the software itself.
So, no, even if they made you mouse-sign your EULA, it still wouldn't mean jack.
The Economist story claims that SCO is pronounces "skoe" - is this true? I've been pronouncing it "ess-see-ohh" ...
Along similar lines, Deus Ex saved my relationship (well, at least temporarily). My girlfriend would come home and demand that I stop doing homework and start playing. She got incredibly invovled in the storyline, and would rush home every day so that I wouldn't play through a level without her - pretty amazing for a girl who would threaten to break up with me whenever she caught me watching or reading anything even remotely related to science fiction.
Ahhhh, you must be new to this country.
...with what can only be described as a rant. Really, the language is ... well, it's just plain whiny. Here, take a look: http://ir.sco.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=1157 25
-What experimental predictions does this new model make? i.e. the theory must be falsifiable
-Why is this new model better than current theories? i.e. the new theory should contain as few parameters as possible
For instance, Einstein's papers made some bold experimental predictions - his theory could easily be proved or disproved on the basis of experiment (time dilation, specifically, is easily testable). Further, special relativity completed the unification of electricity and magnetism and accounted for the trouble in detecting the ether - making his theory preferable to old concepts, which could not account for various "coincidences" in Maxwell's equations. If anyone is going to be comparing this guy to Einstein, his theory had better be clearing up some holes in modern physics or making some bold new experimentally testable predictions.
So, has anyone read the actual paper? Does it give an answer to these questions? And is Foundations of Physics Letters a respectable journal? I've never heard of it before in my life.
It's not a dilemma. In fact, it's the exact opposite - no matter which side wins, evil must lose! There's no wrong answer!