Until dark matter can be directly, or indirectly but consistently detected (e.g. we can take a bunch of dark matter and move it around, if it doesn't move it is a property of that particular region of space, not something contained in it), dark matter stays as an abstraction that helps our formulas to explain, pardon, model gravitational interactions.
That is, now you can either consider it an as yet undetected physical object, or the rationalization of an error, as you prefer, and orient your own research accordingly.
I point this out because "our models do not match our observations" can be either resolved by "therefore there is something more to be modelled" which in this case implies the dark matter hypothesis, or "therefore our models are wrong/too general/too limited", which would be strange but not impossible. Even after modeling every single past present and future aspect of reality, you cannot claim you completely know it, since you are speaking from the inside of it. It would be like testing every I/O combination in a unit test and then proclaiming you have achieved 100% code coverage. Those are two different things on two different levels. Many scientists know this, not all of them unfortunately.
Yep, and I wonder what the prices would be if there were no Linux or BSDs, and people had to choose between MS, solaris, some other flavours of unix, OSX. Free software helps even those not adopting it.
LOL Like proprietary software didn't steal ideas from university research, or amateurs even, and like the linux kernel weren't inspired by something else!
I'll give you 1/5 for the trolling content, but 4/5 for the trolling style. Hopefully you were not really convinced of what you wrote.
Indeed TFA makes the assumption that those in power don't understand, so that they demonize hackers. Which is incredibly naive, because people in power are usually *better* than the average at getting and rating information.
Once they get this information, they reason like: "how is this going to affect my career?" and take the necessary steps to profit from the information, just like parent said.
you are perfectly right. the second part of the problem, though, is that the system with its banks and investments prefers clueless managers that roam unrelated industries in their careers than leaders with expertise in the field who obey to different sets of rules than the immediate carreer advances. who wields financial power wants people who bend to financial power.
State tax agencies swear they informed the NSA about the impact of the law when it was still under debate; NSA officials denied knowing anything about it
Ladies and gentlemen, here are the guys whose job is information processing for the security of your nation...
Hugely successful. After all, who doesn't love the rulers? they are so awesome, always care for our well being. Take Putin, he's is sooo gentle with his adversaries, to the point of giving up his positions. He's also a nice man. Not as sexy as His Honesty Berlusconi, who has to run away from hordes of horny chicks, but almost there.
I wonder if this law will make any difference, since all we want to do is to praise the leaders who constantly succeed in making this planet the best possible place in the entire universe.
I prefer the htc one philosophy. Lower res, great performance in low light, less stress of the cpu. A larger surface for the sensor does the denoising and oversampling itself.
Nice to have the best possible camera hw in a phone, but for many real world applications a bigger lens solves all your problems. Mirrorless and DSLRs won't go away soon.
Well if Nokia financial situation becomes unbearable, I am sure microsoft can step up and buy her up, obviously at a discounted price. Which likely was the objective all along.
The problem is FB and all the others started with clean design and APIs. That's the way FB took the place of myspace. Then when enough people rely they use the network effect to be obnoxious. I feel no problem in blocking ads on FB even if I don't.
If OTOH a site always displayed ads in some way, I'd fell uneasy blocking them.
When we evaluate algorithms we consider all cases, with probability and outcome. We should start doing that for nuclear power too.
But I am no optimist, it appears the objective is not cheap energy for everyone (or the focus would be on alternative reactor kinds and reactions), but poisoning the environment (a much more profitable scheme for those who control therapies).
I think there will be a race to adopt this and to flood the market with h265 material- the newer machines will crunch through those videos while the older one will suffer. Big push for updating those toys.
Personally I am using xvid4 for my stuff, at high bitrates it is not much worse than h264, I have less patent concerns. I wish somebody came up with cams sporting dirac or theora encoding. Most source material is now compressed in mpeg2/4/10 formats, transcoding make those codecs perform worse.
I agree with you, and I would go a step further: let's say technically the law has not been broken (but what about considering the finished object a sign of the violation and the downloading and use of the design the violation).
So what? the printer maker should apologize for not having understood the author of the design and make a deal. If they DID understand the author and worked around his wish, they should apologize louder. Failure to comply with the above has repercussion in MY opinion of such a company, I don't want to be their customer.
> The over-zealous litigatory nature of American society...
It's a global trend. I suspect it's correlated with the advent of powerful insurance companies: once you can get sued to bankrupcy for too many trivial reasons, your only reaction is to get insurance against such risks.
Indeed I was focusing on window managers, but DEs like gnustep, ede, rox (and enlightenment being in both camps) do not seem intent on putting GUI layers on all the functions so I consider them CLI- friendly.
I suspect most if not all nations do it to some extent, the questions are which ones and to what extent.
...and how many of them profess to be the "Land of the Free".
Every single one of them, with their own choices of words of course.
The USA wasn't always like this, and citizens in general believe the propaganda fed to them and live it as an ideal. But many people believing this scam actually managed to make themselves and their country better. That's why I still sing the national anthem, for those honoring their ideals. A nation is people! (/soylent green).
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Until dark matter can be directly, or indirectly but consistently detected (e.g. we can take a bunch of dark matter and move it around, if it doesn't move it is a property of that particular region of space, not something contained in it), dark matter stays as an abstraction that helps our formulas to explain, pardon, model gravitational interactions.
That is, now you can either consider it an as yet undetected physical object, or the rationalization of an error, as you prefer, and orient your own research accordingly.
I point this out because "our models do not match our observations" can be either resolved by "therefore there is something more to be modelled" which in this case implies the dark matter hypothesis, or "therefore our models are wrong/too general/too limited", which would be strange but not impossible. Even after modeling every single past present and future aspect of reality, you cannot claim you completely know it, since you are speaking from the inside of it. It would be like testing every I/O combination in a unit test and then proclaiming you have achieved 100% code coverage. Those are two different things on two different levels.
Many scientists know this, not all of them unfortunately.
Yep, and I wonder what the prices would be if there were no Linux or BSDs, and people had to choose between MS, solaris, some other flavours of unix, OSX.
Free software helps even those not adopting it.
LOL Like proprietary software didn't steal ideas from university research, or amateurs even, and like the linux kernel weren't inspired by something else!
I'll give you 1/5 for the trolling content, but 4/5 for the trolling style. Hopefully you were not really convinced of what you wrote.
Indeed TFA makes the assumption that those in power don't understand, so that they demonize hackers. Which is incredibly naive, because people in power are usually *better* than the average at getting and rating information.
Once they get this information, they reason like: "how is this going to affect my career?" and take the necessary steps to profit from the information, just like parent said.
Indeed, I am thankful that seamonkey still has those prefs and is noscript compatible.
I thought I was a firefox user up until I explored other options, turns out that I am a noscript user.
> So when I applied the 4.3 update to my Nexus 7 last week, I was imagining things? :)
I believe the correct term is "imaging".
Cool, they also chose the proper posture for the eagle.
you are perfectly right. the second part of the problem, though, is that the system with its banks and investments prefers clueless managers that roam unrelated industries in their careers than leaders with expertise in the field who obey to different sets of rules than the immediate carreer advances. who wields financial power wants people who bend to financial power.
Ladies and gentlemen, here are the guys whose job is information processing for the security of your nation...
Ok, cool, so camping helps circadian rhythms and the human health and all. What about teamkilling?
Hugely successful.
After all, who doesn't love the rulers? they are so awesome, always care for our well being. Take Putin, he's is sooo gentle with his adversaries, to the point of giving up his positions. He's also a nice man. Not as sexy as His Honesty Berlusconi, who has to run away from hordes of horny chicks, but almost there.
I wonder if this law will make any difference, since all we want to do is to praise the leaders who constantly succeed in making this planet the best possible place in the entire universe.
I prefer the htc one philosophy. Lower res, great performance in low light, less stress of the cpu.
A larger surface for the sensor does the denoising and oversampling itself.
Nice to have the best possible camera hw in a phone, but for many real world applications a bigger lens solves all your problems. Mirrorless and DSLRs won't go away soon.
Well if Nokia financial situation becomes unbearable, I am sure microsoft can step up and buy her up, obviously at a discounted price. Which likely was the objective all along.
The problem is FB and all the others started with clean design and APIs. That's the way FB took the place of myspace. Then when enough people rely they use the network effect to be obnoxious. I feel no problem in blocking ads on FB even if I don't.
If OTOH a site always displayed ads in some way, I'd fell uneasy blocking them.
> It's keeping it there after an update crashes everything and the user says, "Screw that, I'm going back to Windows because it works."
Said no debian user ever.
When we evaluate algorithms we consider all cases, with probability and outcome. We should start doing that for nuclear power too.
But I am no optimist, it appears the objective is not cheap energy for everyone (or the focus would be on alternative reactor kinds and reactions), but poisoning the environment (a much more profitable scheme for those who control therapies).
I think there will be a race to adopt this and to flood the market with h265 material- the newer machines will crunch through those videos while the older one will suffer. Big push for updating those toys.
Personally I am using xvid4 for my stuff, at high bitrates it is not much worse than h264, I have less patent concerns. I wish somebody came up with cams sporting dirac or theora encoding. Most source material is now compressed in mpeg2/4/10 formats, transcoding make those codecs perform worse.
I agree with you, and I would go a step further: let's say technically the law has not been broken (but what about considering the finished object a sign of the violation and the downloading and use of the design the violation).
So what? the printer maker should apologize for not having understood the author of the design and make a deal. If they DID understand the author and worked around his wish, they should apologize louder. Failure to comply with the above has repercussion in MY opinion of such a company, I don't want to be their customer.
> The over-zealous litigatory nature of American society...
It's a global trend. I suspect it's correlated with the advent of powerful insurance companies: once you can get sued to bankrupcy for too many trivial reasons, your only reaction is to get insurance against such risks.
Maybe you meant: Subhuman urban teenagers?
No faster than light neutrinos traveling on previously unknown hundreds km long tunnels? Meh to you and your >5 sigmas. :-)
Indeed I was focusing on window managers, but DEs like gnustep, ede, rox (and enlightenment being in both camps) do not seem intent on putting GUI layers on all the functions so I consider them CLI- friendly.
half a dozen desktop environments are geared towards CLI users. Thank god for the "fragmentation" of linux.
Because lisp-style languages are already simplified to the extreme, you mean? Phew, for a moment I thought I spotted a troll.
Every single one of them, with their own choices of words of course.
The USA wasn't always like this, and citizens in general believe the propaganda fed to them and live it as an ideal. But many people believing this scam actually managed to make themselves and their country better.
That's why I still sing the national anthem, for those honoring their ideals. A nation is people! (/soylent green).