Is that there's no way for a measurement to show the phase, so we could only see two P orbitals (l=1, |m|=0, 1) in the carbon atom. I wonder if they could compel the P orbital electrons to assume different quantum numbers and see if the pictures show the expected differences between the three different possibilities (both with same m, opposite m, m=0 and |m|=1). Or experimentally verify how electric/magnetic fields distort the orbitals and still get the emitted electrons to form a picture.
This is 2009, and people are still developing/releasing for 32-bit before 64-bit? I'm typically a bit behind the curve on new processor adoption and I went AMD64 nearly 3 years ago. Do they even make 32-bit desktops anymore? This makes no sense. This headline should read "Google Chrome backported to 32 bit."
Mental powers, reasoning in particular, are very much like muscles. If they are not used, they will wither. If they are exercised incorrectly they will not grow as one wishes and are likely to be damaged. Only correct exercise will help them safely grow to their full potential.
What we call modern reasoning, the "correct" method of mental exercise, is the culmination of millenia of civilization. No one is going to traverse that tree on their own and learn to reason as well as we have collectively; So in fact people do need to be taught how to reason, just as they need to be taught how to use exercise machines correctly. Yes, one could work out on their own how to use every machine in the gym... it'd be stupid when someone can teach you vastly faster and more efficiently than you'd be able to learn on your own.
We already know that if people aren't forced to use their muscles, the fitness distribution will be mainly overweight and out of shape with a small tail in good or excellent shape. I dare say that brain use is distributed the same way - it's not that people can't reason, they don't want to because they're just lazy.
Did the US Supreme Court lose "the last of its integrity" when it decided that you can't yell fire in a crowded theater? Reporting on this would have put Rohde in even more extreme danger when there was no need to do so. Your right to free speech ends when it puts my life in clear, immediate and unnecessary danger.
I once submitted something to a trivia database and I liked their system:
An inconspicuous line in the before-you-press-submit spiel that says "Put ## at the start of your writing" with an implied "This tells me you aren't some kind of moron who doesn't read or follow basic instructions before flapping his jaws. If you don't your submission goes on the bottom of the crap pile."
Then a few years later we end up wondering how come our software now sucks ten times more ram than before despite no corresponding quantum leap in functionality.
Yes, there's nothing inefficient about making everything locally on a small scale.
It's more economically efficient to make as much of something in one place as possible and then distribute it. Therefore that IS what will happen, no matter how much you whine about it, because people by and large aren't down with paying more for stuff when they don't have to. Stop complaining and start working to make small scale manufacturing more efficient.
How is it that that the gangsters, pedos and turrists who apparently lurk in every corner and shadow, just waiting for a momentary lapse in which they will terrorize, rape and beat you, were thwarted from taking over the world before we threw away the rule of law to "get them"?
This prediction is as meaningless as the one of Mercury falling into the sun in a billion years for the same reasons.
The inner solar system is chaotic with a Lyuapanov time on the order of 5 million years - On average, two very nearby orbits will change their distance between each other in phase-space by a constant in that time. This makes the solar system's future evolution profoundly dependent on initial conditions and integrator accuracy.
First of all it's hard to maintain integration accuracy for more than a few Lyuapanov times, especially when the system has such an enormous dynamic range in mass and characteristic orbital times as the solar system, since this requires that the integrator be exponentially more accurate. The outer solar system is routinely integrated for hundreds of millions of years (and I've run several such simulations myself with a 10th order symplectic integrator) but most simulations of the inner solar system run for a few tens of millions of years at most. A 5 billion year integration of the inner solar system will require that errors be supressed on the order of e^-1000, which is absurd.
Second of all, chaotic systems are also defined by their extreme dependence on initial conditions. Our observational knowledge of the positions of the planets only extends to about 7 digits at best, which makes any simulation in which displacing something by 1 part in e^1000 changes the outcome meaningless. In addition, at such levels of precision other effects come into play - Relativity changes the details of Earth's orbit significantly from the classical prediction after about 10 million years.
You can plug whatever numbers you want into a symplectic integrator and it'll run as long as you want without blowing up, but that doesn't mean the numbers mean anything.
America has a hard time being at peace in the present world because, as the top dog and de facto world policeman, we inevitably get drawn into everyone's little spats.
We flirted with colonialism circa 1900, decided we didn't really like it too much, then got involved in WWI. Managed to hide from war for 22 years, got violently drawn into WWII. Since then I think it comes down to, we've decided it's better to intervene in those little spats before they turn into world wars. Because world wars suck.
And I'll come down tentatively on the side of our involvement being good... If we don't want to play World Policeman I'm sure China would be happy to step in.
If you're serious: You're right, we should never tell children when they're wrong. That would never create preening, self-entitled idiots that never learned any actual hard facts and have no idea how to cope with a real world that doesn't care how "traumatic" being told "you're wrong" is.
Direct UDP access to remote DNS servers (port 53) is allowed.
The applet was also able to directly request a large DNS response.
I, for one, am absolutely astounded that/.'s editors would post some blog rant without fact checking it first... That would be irresponsible to the point of incompetent, something virtually unheard of around here.
It's not as if the original blog ranter said "Full disclosure: I dont know if its Comcast or Earthlink thats responsible for this behavior..." or anything. Screw it, he's not getting in the way of your Two Minute's Hate!
That's it. Dome lights are rarely used and never abused, so the LED's comparative advantages - long life, superior efficiency and high durability - are null unless the ability to brag about pointless overengineering is a feature (e.g. expensive vanity cars).
Wow, we've all heard the loony right wing rants about "self-hating guilt-ridden leftists" but rarely do we see an actual example.
Now if you could just realize that the proper mix of capitalism and communism is just enough centrally-directed safety nets and regulation to keep capitalism in order [i.e. a hell of a lot closer to capitalism than communism], we'd be all set.
China supported the US' enemies in Korea and Vietnam.
Did the USSR not attempt to sabotage the USA?
Why was the west not crippled by the USSR's refusal to share technology with it?
In absolute terms, America spent vastly more on its armed forces than the USSR did. Yet when Premier Gorbachev visited a supermarket he thought it was built specifically to impress him.
In science, a more complete theory must both explain new things and encompass the entirety of the old theory. It's not unreasonable to say that a new economic system must at least be able to match the old one before it can be considered viable.
If ignorance is bliss, then the ignorance of history necessary to believe that problems are solved by removing all government must make you the happiest person on earth.
Humans, and any groups of humans which encounter each other with any regularity, organize themselves and their groups into hierarchies. Stable top-level hierarchies are usually called "government" and will always eventually form. Good government and bad government is a choice, no government is not.
3. Bad idea. The enormous range in user perceptiveness (from those who wouldn't recognize an exploit if it popped up a dialog saying "Let your computer be pwnt by teh China? Y/N" to those who run multiple hardware firewalls, IDSes and remote loggers) and the difficulty of creating an objective metric for what constitutes "malicious" and "unknowingly run" will make this a nightmare.
It's called "personal responsibility" folks: You are responsible for your computer and what it does. If you can prove that you took reasonable measures to prevent whatever badness happened from happening, you get off scot free. Bonus: Attaches a risk and cost to being a dumbass online at last.
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Is that there's no way for a measurement to show the phase, so we could only see two P orbitals (l=1, |m|=0, 1) in the carbon atom. I wonder if they could compel the P orbital electrons to assume different quantum numbers and see if the pictures show the expected differences between the three different possibilities (both with same m, opposite m, m=0 and |m|=1). Or experimentally verify how electric/magnetic fields distort the orbitals and still get the emitted electrons to form a picture.
This is 2009, and people are still developing/releasing for 32-bit before 64-bit? I'm typically a bit behind the curve on new processor adoption and I went AMD64 nearly 3 years ago. Do they even make 32-bit desktops anymore? This makes no sense. This headline should read "Google Chrome backported to 32 bit."
Mental powers, reasoning in particular, are very much like muscles. If they are not used, they will wither. If they are exercised incorrectly they will not grow as one wishes and are likely to be damaged. Only correct exercise will help them safely grow to their full potential.
What we call modern reasoning, the "correct" method of mental exercise, is the culmination of millenia of civilization. No one is going to traverse that tree on their own and learn to reason as well as we have collectively; So in fact people do need to be taught how to reason, just as they need to be taught how to use exercise machines correctly. Yes, one could work out on their own how to use every machine in the gym... it'd be stupid when someone can teach you vastly faster and more efficiently than you'd be able to learn on your own.
We already know that if people aren't forced to use their muscles, the fitness distribution will be mainly overweight and out of shape with a small tail in good or excellent shape. I dare say that brain use is distributed the same way - it's not that people can't reason, they don't want to because they're just lazy.
I'd like to be the first to complain that resonant power transfer has nothing to do with quantum entanglement.
You'll be getting a memo from the Tesla Death Ray department shortly; Not observing it won't save you.
The perfection of the self-confirming delusion:
If you agree, obviously I'm correct.
If you disagree, you're part of the conspiracy to suppress my correctness.
Did the US Supreme Court lose "the last of its integrity" when it decided that you can't yell fire in a crowded theater? Reporting on this would have put Rohde in even more extreme danger when there was no need to do so. Your right to free speech ends when it puts my life in clear, immediate and unnecessary danger.
I once submitted something to a trivia database and I liked their system:
An inconspicuous line in the before-you-press-submit spiel that says "Put ## at the start of your writing" with an implied "This tells me you aren't some kind of moron who doesn't read or follow basic instructions before flapping his jaws. If you don't your submission goes on the bottom of the crap pile."
Yes, you retard, losing the 7th largest economy in the entire world would be rather bad for the rest of the states.
That was before the Southern Strategy.
"Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom" -- Barack Obama
Then a few years later we end up wondering how come our software now sucks ten times more ram than before despite no corresponding quantum leap in functionality.
Yes, there's nothing inefficient about making everything locally on a small scale.
It's more economically efficient to make as much of something in one place as possible and then distribute it. Therefore that IS what will happen, no matter how much you whine about it, because people by and large aren't down with paying more for stuff when they don't have to. Stop complaining and start working to make small scale manufacturing more efficient.
How is it that that the gangsters, pedos and turrists who apparently lurk in every corner and shadow, just waiting for a momentary lapse in which they will terrorize, rape and beat you, were thwarted from taking over the world before we threw away the rule of law to "get them"?
This prediction is as meaningless as the one of Mercury falling into the sun in a billion years for the same reasons.
The inner solar system is chaotic with a Lyuapanov time on the order of 5 million years - On average, two very nearby orbits will change their distance between each other in phase-space by a constant in that time. This makes the solar system's future evolution profoundly dependent on initial conditions and integrator accuracy.
First of all it's hard to maintain integration accuracy for more than a few Lyuapanov times, especially when the system has such an enormous dynamic range in mass and characteristic orbital times as the solar system, since this requires that the integrator be exponentially more accurate. The outer solar system is routinely integrated for hundreds of millions of years (and I've run several such simulations myself with a 10th order symplectic integrator) but most simulations of the inner solar system run for a few tens of millions of years at most. A 5 billion year integration of the inner solar system will require that errors be supressed on the order of e^-1000, which is absurd.
Second of all, chaotic systems are also defined by their extreme dependence on initial conditions. Our observational knowledge of the positions of the planets only extends to about 7 digits at best, which makes any simulation in which displacing something by 1 part in e^1000 changes the outcome meaningless. In addition, at such levels of precision other effects come into play - Relativity changes the details of Earth's orbit significantly from the classical prediction after about 10 million years.
You can plug whatever numbers you want into a symplectic integrator and it'll run as long as you want without blowing up, but that doesn't mean the numbers mean anything.
America has a hard time being at peace in the present world because, as the top dog and de facto world policeman, we inevitably get drawn into everyone's little spats.
We flirted with colonialism circa 1900, decided we didn't really like it too much, then got involved in WWI. Managed to hide from war for 22 years, got violently drawn into WWII. Since then I think it comes down to, we've decided it's better to intervene in those little spats before they turn into world wars. Because world wars suck.
And I'll come down tentatively on the side of our involvement being good... If we don't want to play World Policeman I'm sure China would be happy to step in.
Bose-Einstein condensation is an exclusively quantum mechanical phenomenon; What do you mean the quantum effects may not be mirrored?
If you're serious: You're right, we should never tell children when they're wrong. That would never create preening, self-entitled idiots that never learned any actual hard facts and have no idea how to cope with a real world that doesn't care how "traumatic" being told "you're wrong" is.
If you're joking: God, don't scare me like that!
I, for one, am absolutely astounded that /.'s editors would post some blog rant without fact checking it first... That would be irresponsible to the point of incompetent, something virtually unheard of around here.
It's not as if the original blog ranter said "Full disclosure: I dont know if its Comcast or Earthlink thats responsible for this behavior..." or anything. Screw it, he's not getting in the way of your Two Minute's Hate!
That's it. Dome lights are rarely used and never abused, so the LED's comparative advantages - long life, superior efficiency and high durability - are null unless the ability to brag about pointless overengineering is a feature (e.g. expensive vanity cars).
Stop misusing important terms like "freedom of expression" until they lose all meaning.
This is one private entity to another, a simple case of "my house, my rules" - Abuse them and I'll make you leave.
Wow, we've all heard the loony right wing rants about "self-hating guilt-ridden leftists" but rarely do we see an actual example.
Now if you could just realize that the proper mix of capitalism and communism is just enough centrally-directed safety nets and regulation to keep capitalism in order [i.e. a hell of a lot closer to capitalism than communism], we'd be all set.
That cuts both ways, you know.
China supported the US' enemies in Korea and Vietnam.
Did the USSR not attempt to sabotage the USA?
Why was the west not crippled by the USSR's refusal to share technology with it?
In absolute terms, America spent vastly more on its armed forces than the USSR did. Yet when Premier Gorbachev visited a supermarket he thought it was built specifically to impress him.
In science, a more complete theory must both explain new things and encompass the entirety of the old theory. It's not unreasonable to say that a new economic system must at least be able to match the old one before it can be considered viable.
Chemist #1: "I have a plan for a wonder molecule that can cure cancer and end world hunger."
Chemist #2: "Fuckin' A! Let's see it!"
Chemist #1: "Um... well, it turns out the reactants in the intermediate steps are so unstable we'll never be able to make any visible amount."
Chemist #2: "Huh. Oh well, back to the drawing board then."
If ignorance is bliss, then the ignorance of history necessary to believe that problems are solved by removing all government must make you the happiest person on earth.
Humans, and any groups of humans which encounter each other with any regularity, organize themselves and their groups into hierarchies. Stable top-level hierarchies are usually called "government" and will always eventually form. Good government and bad government is a choice, no government is not.
1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Bad idea. The enormous range in user perceptiveness (from those who wouldn't recognize an exploit if it popped up a dialog saying "Let your computer be pwnt by teh China? Y/N" to those who run multiple hardware firewalls, IDSes and remote loggers) and the difficulty of creating an objective metric for what constitutes "malicious" and "unknowingly run" will make this a nightmare.
It's called "personal responsibility" folks: You are responsible for your computer and what it does. If you can prove that you took reasonable measures to prevent whatever badness happened from happening, you get off scot free. Bonus: Attaches a risk and cost to being a dumbass online at last.
4. Torn, and it's a sticky problem as TFA says...
5. Yes
6. Yes