> Quantum Theory has many, Many, MANY experiments showing that it correctly predicts the results.
Yeah, but so does Newtonaian Physics (think the Voyager probes). So QM clearly isn't actually wrong, but it might be inaccurate.
Personally, I hope he's right: it would be a magnificent opportunity for some significant scientific discoveries. I never could understand how a real person of science would object to such a thing (probably an ego thing).
The person who wrote it is guity of writting bad code and the person who distributed it is guilty of distributing bad code. Doesn't matter if it's via incompetance or greed, the end result is the same: bad code.
Of course, it's much easier to write bad code, any man and his dog can do it. And does. Fuckwits.
> While I expect the benchmark results to be fairly accurate, news sites and games sites don't really strike me as the best for reviewing chips for the server market.
That's a nice sentiment, but I would prefer to believe that Intel has lost it (It's just more entertaining this way!).
The King (*cough*intel*chough*) is Dead, Long Live the King (*sniff*amd*cough*)!
And how exactly would they enforce it? I mean, 30 months in a tin can, millions of kilometers from home, hell, even if they restricted each mission to only one sex at a time that wouldn't stop anything, know what I mean? *nudge* *nudge*
Do you seriously beleive that a mere 4% of the Earth's human population can be happy and prosperous without the friendship and support of the other 96? Dream on!
The US is small and getting smaller every day. You might be able to pick on small, impoverished (except for the oil, of course) Middle-Eastern nations but you can't take on all of us at once, which is what it'll come down to if there's a shit fight. I mean, who can you count on for support? Who really likes America anyway?
You place now is by our side, as one of many with as much and as little entitlement as everyone else. Deal with it.
> The worst natural disaster in recorded history occurred just a week ago in New Orleans...
Funny, I would have thought that the 2004 Tsunami, with over 150,000 dead (that's about half the population of the USA), would better qualify at the worst natural disaster in recorded history but I guess since it didn't happen in America it doesn't really matter, does it?
Hang on, in what way is QT licensed under the GPL if it's distrubution is then restricted by the QT license? My impression of dual-licensing is that one may takes one pick of either license, along with whatever "special features" (e.g. support, the right to create derivative works, a price tag, etc) or lackthereof acompany it (This interpretation seems to be backed up by Wikipedia, regarding the choice of an open-source or commercial licence). Your argument suggests that one must comply with both the GPL and the QT licence simultaneously, but how can the latter restrict distribution explicitly allowed by the former and remain compatible?
If I am in error I would certainly appreciate it if you could provide a link to further information on the subject, because it would mean I have completely the wrong idea about the GPL, and I've released GPL'd software so I do have some vested interest in the matter.
At times like this, I like to remember the following: At every point in time during the history of the human species, if we were able to think at all, we thought we knew it all: The Nature of Reality; the Big Picture; the Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything. And at every point in time during the entire history of the human species, we have been wrong!! Demonstrably wrong! So why should now be any different?
This doesn't mean we shouldn't try to find out what's really going on, just that we shouldn't expect to actually discover what it is. Not in our (natural) lifetimes, anyway. My personal belief is that the true nature of reality is beyond our current ability to percieve, we are simply too small and insignificant a part of the Universe to be able to contain that kind of information. We might not always be this way; if we can avoid killing ourselves it is natural to expect that we will expand and grow, and with that growth will come a new abilities to percieve the world around us, just as it has come to us in the past. But now? Forget about it. Sit back, enjoy the pictures. Try not to worry too much, you'll just end up dying sooner.
I am confident that the Sun will rise in the east tomorrow morning, even if I am not here to see it. Here and now, that's good enough for me (but I really like the pictures).
> Linux already has an almost cultish following, however, and I doubt anything short of a meteor hitting earth could kill it. Even the roaches left would probably find a way to boot a computer and play around with the kernel a bit.
Correct. The real difference between Solaris and Linux is that Solaris is, and always will be, owned by Sun, but Linux belongs to us.
Well, as a Victorian who grew up in Fitzroy I guess my next move would be to accuse you all of being motherless bastards for stealing our competition, not to mention one of our oldest teams, but with the Dons languishing near the bottom of the ladder I just don't have the energy anymore *sigh*.
Yes, but we all know, BSD is dying. Better to use Linux code.
Even if this is true, the code in question is available under a far less restrictive license then the Linux code itself. Since SCO still has one or two paid programmers on staff (for the time being at least), they could still have Linux compatibility without violating the copyrights of the Linux code contributers; it would just require more work and effort from their programmers.
SCO took the easy option, and, as expected, it's going to bite them on the balls. No surprise there, and no pity either.
In order for something to be considered an observer, it must have an informational state that can be changed by the information being received from the object being observed. In order to extract any meaningful data about the object being observed, the information being received must be both proportional to and consistant with the informational state of the object being observed, and must change proportionaly to and consistantly with any change to the informational state of the object being observed.
Do the slits in the double-slip expetiment have an informational state that is changed by the passage of a photon through a slit? Does such a change in the slit's informational state lead to a change in the manner in which the slit will interact with a photon in the future? Can you think of a third question to nicely round off this paragraph?
Also, as an aside, it is impossible for anything to directly observe itself. Any information an object receives from itself would change it's own informational state, rendering any information it has of itself obsolete. It can never be aware of what it is, only of what it was, so you can forget about all this "Know Thyself" crap.
I would be more interested to know how many transistors they will be packing into the area of the cross-section of a human hair. That kind of information might actually be useful.
> True, true. Which makes me wonder why smart computer makers like Dell haven't invested in ways to harden XP [...]
Because (drumroll, please... thank you) Windows XP is a Closed Source Proprietory program, and nobody but Microsoft decides what happens to it. Ba-da-Boom!
Well, I've been runnng sarge for over a year now, just 'cause woody was too old. In fact, I've been maintaining a daily-updated i386-binary sarge mirror on my local network for several months now (I hate waiting for packages to download - much better to do it while I'm sleeping), so I've barely touched the mirrors at all.
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> Quantum Theory has many, Many, MANY experiments showing that it correctly predicts the results.
Yeah, but so does Newtonaian Physics (think the Voyager probes). So QM clearly isn't actually wrong, but it might be inaccurate.
Personally, I hope he's right: it would be a magnificent opportunity for some significant scientific discoveries. I never could understand how a real person of science would object to such a thing (probably an ego thing).
This is just another example of how the US just continues slide backwards whilst the rest of the world moves forward.
... 2 ... 3 ...)
I'll stick with Europe and Asia, and sit back and watch as the US slips furthur into irrelevance.
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The correct answer is "Both, you idiot".
The person who wrote it is guity of writting bad code and the person who distributed it is guilty of distributing bad code. Doesn't matter if it's via incompetance or greed, the end result is the same: bad code.
Of course, it's much easier to write bad code, any man and his dog can do it. And does. Fuckwits.
> While I expect the benchmark results to be fairly accurate, news sites and games sites don't really strike me as the best for reviewing chips for the server market.
That's a nice sentiment, but I would prefer to believe that Intel has lost it (It's just more entertaining this way!).
The King (*cough*intel*chough*) is Dead, Long Live the King (*sniff*amd*cough*)!
And how exactly would they enforce it? I mean, 30 months in a tin can, millions of kilometers from home, hell, even if they restricted each mission to only one sex at a time that wouldn't stop anything, know what I mean? *nudge* *nudge*
Do you seriously beleive that a mere 4% of the Earth's human population can be happy and prosperous without the friendship and support of the other 96? Dream on!
The US is small and getting smaller every day. You might be able to pick on small, impoverished (except for the oil, of course) Middle-Eastern nations but you can't take on all of us at once, which is what it'll come down to if there's a shit fight. I mean, who can you count on for support? Who really likes America anyway?
You place now is by our side, as one of many with as much and as little entitlement as everyone else. Deal with it.
(Aren't these fun? Bwahahahaha)
I, for one, just seem to be getting smarter.
kjots says: Duh!
> The worst natural disaster in recorded history occurred just a week ago in New Orleans ...
Funny, I would have thought that the 2004 Tsunami, with over 150,000 dead (that's about half the population of the USA), would better qualify at the worst natural disaster in recorded history but I guess since it didn't happen in America it doesn't really matter, does it?
Jackass.
> Hopefully it'll work both ways. Penis bends? Give the man a knife!
I believe I speak for every man here when I say: "After You, My Friend".
All I can say is, Phew! Thanks!
Hang on, in what way is QT licensed under the GPL if it's distrubution is then restricted by the QT license? My impression of dual-licensing is that one may takes one pick of either license, along with whatever "special features" (e.g. support, the right to create derivative works, a price tag, etc) or lackthereof acompany it (This interpretation seems to be backed up by Wikipedia, regarding the choice of an open-source or commercial licence). Your argument suggests that one must comply with both the GPL and the QT licence simultaneously, but how can the latter restrict distribution explicitly allowed by the former and remain compatible?
If I am in error I would certainly appreciate it if you could provide a link to further information on the subject, because it would mean I have completely the wrong idea about the GPL, and I've released GPL'd software so I do have some vested interest in the matter.
At times like this, I like to remember the following: At every point in time during the history of the human species, if we were able to think at all, we thought we knew it all: The Nature of Reality; the Big Picture; the Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything. And at every point in time during the entire history of the human species, we have been wrong!! Demonstrably wrong! So why should now be any different?
This doesn't mean we shouldn't try to find out what's really going on, just that we shouldn't expect to actually discover what it is. Not in our (natural) lifetimes, anyway. My personal belief is that the true nature of reality is beyond our current ability to percieve, we are simply too small and insignificant a part of the Universe to be able to contain that kind of information. We might not always be this way; if we can avoid killing ourselves it is natural to expect that we will expand and grow, and with that growth will come a new abilities to percieve the world around us, just as it has come to us in the past. But now? Forget about it. Sit back, enjoy the pictures. Try not to worry too much, you'll just end up dying sooner.
I am confident that the Sun will rise in the east tomorrow morning, even if I am not here to see it. Here and now, that's good enough for me (but I really like the pictures).
We have online gambling laws? Next they'll make it illegal to download pornography!
> Linux already has an almost cultish following, however, and I doubt anything short of a meteor hitting earth could kill it. Even the roaches left would probably find a way to boot a computer and play around with the kernel a bit.
Correct. The real difference between Solaris and Linux is that Solaris is, and always will be, owned by Sun, but Linux belongs to us.
Well, as a Victorian who grew up in Fitzroy I guess my next move would be to accuse you all of being motherless bastards for stealing our competition, not to mention one of our oldest teams, but with the Dons languishing near the bottom of the ladder I just don't have the energy anymore *sigh*.
Maybe next year...
Who cares? He's from Perth! (Also, I may require the services of a doctor to assist me with the removal of my tongue from within my cheek).
Great. So now I can worry about a Denial-of-Breakfast attack.
:P
Just kidding folks
Yes, but we all know, BSD is dying. Better to use Linux code.
Even if this is true, the code in question is available under a far less restrictive license then the Linux code itself. Since SCO still has one or two paid programmers on staff (for the time being at least), they could still have Linux compatibility without violating the copyrights of the Linux code contributers; it would just require more work and effort from their programmers.
SCO took the easy option, and, as expected, it's going to bite them on the balls. No surprise there, and no pity either.
5: Profit!
In order for something to be considered an observer, it must have an informational state that can be changed by the information being received from the object being observed. In order to extract any meaningful data about the object being observed, the information being received must be both proportional to and consistant with the informational state of the object being observed, and must change proportionaly to and consistantly with any change to the informational state of the object being observed.
Do the slits in the double-slip expetiment have an informational state that is changed by the passage of a photon through a slit? Does such a change in the slit's informational state lead to a change in the manner in which the slit will interact with a photon in the future? Can you think of a third question to nicely round off this paragraph?
Also, as an aside, it is impossible for anything to directly observe itself. Any information an object receives from itself would change it's own informational state, rendering any information it has of itself obsolete. It can never be aware of what it is, only of what it was, so you can forget about all this "Know Thyself" crap.
I would be more interested to know how many transistors they will be packing into the area of the cross-section of a human hair. That kind of information might actually be useful.
> True, true. Which makes me wonder why smart computer makers like Dell haven't invested in ways to harden XP [...]
Because (drumroll, please ... thank you) Windows XP is a Closed Source Proprietory program, and nobody but Microsoft decides what happens to it. Ba-da-Boom!
Well, I've been runnng sarge for over a year now, just 'cause woody was too old. In fact, I've been maintaining a daily-updated i386-binary sarge mirror on my local network for several months now (I hate waiting for packages to download - much better to do it while I'm sleeping), so I've barely touched the mirrors at all.
Anyone else doing this?
Firefox 1.0.4 is two years out of date? How long was I asleep?!?