Purely neutral particles like the photon are their own antiparticle. Interestingly a photon-photon collison causes a virtual positron-electron pair which of course annihliate and emitt another photon. QED is crazy.
we are moving towards metaphysics and epistemology but there is an important point to be made. the "thing" and the "description of the thing" are different sides of the same coin. its like the measurement made and apparatus of measurement. without a model or description the thing being described has no existence. what exists outside of description? something that can not be talked about therefore meaningless or something that is beyond meaning. akin to the eternal tao.
something we're going to realize is how closely tied math and physics are. what is mathematical is physical and what is physical is mathematical. in other words the information that is encoded with mathematical symbols must have a physical realization. information is physical. another way to look at it is information is geometrical.
The mathematical formalism that describes Quantum Mechanics is just that... a formalism. What QM describes may be much more then just Hilbert Space. Do not disregard opinions of those who are ignorant of the formalism. The formalism may be just a trap that hides the true significance. This is coming from a mathematician.
Lloyd Christmas: What are the chances of a guy like you and a girl like me... ending up together? Mary Swanson: Not good. Lloyd Christmas: Not good like one in a hundred? Mary Swanson: I'd say more like one in a million. Lloyd Christmas: So you're telling me there's a chance?
i was on mushrooms the other day and my friend called me on my cellphone. I kept looking around for him and when I realized he wasnt in the room I hung up.
on a side note, cellphones are overrated. i dont even ask for people's numbers anymore unless they owe me money. if i see you again i see you again...
I got a 2.45 gpa in high school but I had a 1200 SAT. So I learned something during high school just not in school. Also I went to a pretty poor high school. Normally the poorer the community the poorer the public education system, since schools are funded via property taxes. I saw how bad public education is and its in a terrible state. When you treat creative individuals as just social security numbers they turn into numbers. We have developed a system that presupposes a couple of things..
1. Everyone learns the same. This is obviously false.
2. Intelligence is determined by test scores. This is false
3. You can treat a person like a car and put them on an assembly line and have knowledge 'welded' to them as the go down.
Individuals are more like plants. They need individual and specialized care. However this means more teachers which means more money. And we do not have enough money and/or are not willing to pay for an adequate public education. In the United States we have chosen defense over education and the results are obvious. A bunch of ignorant people with too many weapons.
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college is not about learning its about paying for a piece of paper that says nothing. we live in a society where this piece of paper means more then the person who owns it. students go to college because society tells them too. if you do not go to college there is something wrong with you. your parents tell you to get good grades but you dont know how to 'think' because public education has failed you. so you pay for a paper or steal one under the slogan "this class doesnt matter". what does matter is getting a degree so you can get a job and consume. the universities are focused on making money, they have become a private industry. they hire sub-par professors who are products of the very same system. they assign papers and the students cheat. the professors try to eliminate cheating by treating all their students as potentinal cheaters. this only weakens the already fragile relationship of teacher and student. learning becomes a less of a goal in the classroom. its the student trying to pass and the professor trying to get paid. and in time people will forget that colleges had anything to do with learning. its just a place you go because you have to or there is something wrong with you.
Hi, I'm the author. Please calm yourself and read this post with a clear mind.
impossible
How hypocritical Slashdotters are. When stories are posted of stupid lawsuits because someone was careless in purchasing or using a product and did themselves/their family harm, you jump all over them. High and mighty. Superior, intelligent, all-knowing.
welcome to slashdot
It is really time for a major self-evaluation amongst gamers. I'm extremely disappointed that even such an intelligent crowd as here simply repeats the same crybaby pro-piracy mantras after they shit their own beds and don't like the smell. Yeah, invasive copy protection sucks royal ass but the only reason it's there is because of you.
You're obviously insane.
Piracy will always exist and no matter how hard a game is to crack it will eventually be cracked. What a human intelligent mind does can be undone by the same mind.
So, how about trying to limit piracy by making a game worth buying. Consumers have money and are willing to spend it and most of them do faster then they earn it. Trying to somehow connect piracy to dwindling profits is a weak argument. First you presuppose that your product is even worth buying which it some cases it is not. Second piracy is hard to track and even harder to prove how much profit is lost by stealing.
The solution is rather simple, make games that are worth buying. Improve your product. Blaming profit loss on consumers is like a farmer blaming dirt.
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If dark matter has a gravitational signature wouldnt there be some sort of gravitational lensing effect?
quick answer... there is an infinite amount of photons in "mid-transport" however photons have no mass... so whatever.
Purely neutral particles like the photon are their own antiparticle. Interestingly a photon-photon collison causes a virtual positron-electron pair which of course annihliate and emitt another photon. QED is crazy.
straight geeeeeeeek.
so how many people do you think died or were put into a coma by your so called recipe for homemade meth?
if you want your manifesto to have any importance you have to do several things.
1. Be Insane
2. Kill or try to kill someone.
3. Send it to a credible news source.
So Marco, you got step 1, work on 2 and 3. I suggest killing Bill Gates or George W. Bush.
that movie is teh suck.
Hal: I'm scared Dave
Dave's Ghost: Its okay you will be with me soon.
Hal: Anal Sex?
Dave's Ghost: I'm sorry but I can't do that Hal.
we are moving towards metaphysics and epistemology but there is an important point to be made. the "thing" and the "description of the thing" are different sides of the same coin. its like the measurement made and apparatus of measurement. without a model or description the thing being described has no existence. what exists outside of description? something that can not be talked about therefore meaningless or something that is beyond meaning. akin to the eternal tao.
something we're going to realize is how closely tied math and physics are. what is mathematical is physical and what is physical is mathematical. in other words the information that is encoded with mathematical symbols must have a physical realization. information is physical. another way to look at it is information is geometrical.
A terrorist is someone who uses terror to influence others.
You're not serious right? By that definition everyone who fought in any war ever was a terrorist. Oh maybe you are on to something....
to screw in a light bulb?
A: 1. The janitor with a 212 IQ who has a PhD in Physics who keeps ranting about this guy named Lorentz.
my bad its wrong... pirates would of course figure out the nash equilibirum to the game theory matrix. i'm such an idiot.
they all get 20 goins coins.
but i donate all my spare cpu cycles to easynews. they give me a gig work of usenet for every 15 days. i doubt slashdot could match that.
The mathematical formalism that describes Quantum Mechanics is just that... a formalism. What QM describes may be much more then just Hilbert Space. Do not disregard opinions of those who are ignorant of the formalism. The formalism may be just a trap that hides the true significance. This is coming from a mathematician.
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Lloyd Christmas: What are the chances of a guy like you and a girl like me... ending up together?
Mary Swanson: Not good.
Lloyd Christmas: Not good like one in a hundred?
Mary Swanson: I'd say more like one in a million.
Lloyd Christmas: So you're telling me there's a chance?
nice wheels grandpa
lets offend as many people as possible... lets see.. dress up CmdrTaco in blackface with a bucket of chicken in his hand.
If you have to use math to explain something to someone else, it is because you do not truly understand it at its fundamamental level.
No Math is probably the only language expressive enough to somewhat communicate all those beautiful visual images I can create in my head.
and ironically the only thing you will see is a Libertarian president....
i was on mushrooms the other day and my friend called me on my cellphone. I kept looking around for him and when I realized he wasnt in the room I hung up.
on a side note, cellphones are overrated. i dont even ask for people's numbers anymore unless they owe me money. if i see you again i see you again...
what is liberalism? I had a professor who thought Hobbes was a liberal democrat.
I got a 2.45 gpa in high school but I had a 1200 SAT. So I learned something during high school just not in school. Also I went to a pretty poor high school. Normally the poorer the community the poorer the public education system, since schools are funded via property taxes. I saw how bad public education is and its in a terrible state. When you treat creative individuals as just social security numbers they turn into numbers. We have developed a system that presupposes a couple of things..
1. Everyone learns the same.
This is obviously false.
2. Intelligence is determined by test scores.
This is false
3. You can treat a person like a car and put them on an assembly line and have knowledge 'welded' to them as the go down.
Individuals are more like plants. They need individual and specialized care. However this means more teachers which means more money. And we do not have enough money and/or are not willing to pay for an adequate public education. In the United States we have chosen defense over education and the results are obvious. A bunch of ignorant people with too many weapons.
college is not about learning its about paying for a piece of paper that says nothing. we live in a society where this piece of paper means more then the person who owns it. students go to college because society tells them too. if you do not go to college there is something wrong with you. your parents tell you to get good grades but you dont know how to 'think' because public education has failed you. so you pay for a paper or steal one under the slogan "this class doesnt matter". what does matter is getting a degree so you can get a job and consume. the universities are focused on making money, they have become a private industry. they hire sub-par professors who are products of the very same system. they assign papers and the students cheat. the professors try to eliminate cheating by treating all their students as potentinal cheaters. this only weakens the already fragile relationship of teacher and student. learning becomes a less of a goal in the classroom. its the student trying to pass and the professor trying to get paid. and in time people will forget that colleges had anything to do with learning. its just a place you go because you have to or there is something wrong with you.
Hi, I'm the author. Please calm yourself and read this post with a clear mind.
impossible
How hypocritical Slashdotters are. When stories are posted of stupid lawsuits because someone was careless in purchasing or using a product and did themselves/their family harm, you jump all over them. High and mighty. Superior, intelligent, all-knowing.
welcome to slashdot
It is really time for a major self-evaluation amongst gamers. I'm extremely disappointed that even such an intelligent crowd as here simply repeats the same crybaby pro-piracy mantras after they shit their own beds and don't like the smell. Yeah, invasive copy protection sucks royal ass but the only reason it's there is because of you.
You're obviously insane.
Piracy will always exist and no matter how hard a game is to crack it will eventually be cracked. What a human intelligent mind does can be undone by the same mind.
So, how about trying to limit piracy by making a game worth buying. Consumers have money and are willing to spend it and most of them do faster then they earn it. Trying to somehow connect piracy to dwindling profits is a weak argument. First you presuppose that your product is even worth buying which it some cases it is not. Second piracy is hard to track and even harder to prove how much profit is lost by stealing.
The solution is rather simple, make games that are worth buying. Improve your product. Blaming profit loss on consumers is like a farmer blaming dirt.