He was incorporated. Maybe I do not totally understand his situation now. I am just repeating what he told me and this happened a year ago and I am old and my memory is not what it used to be.
I worked for a small but profitable mom and pop computer supply company and was good friends with the owner. He was included in a lawsuit against ASUS by LG Electronics for patent infringement for no other reason other than he happened to be the closest ASUS dealer to the Alexandria, VA courthouse. The cheapest lawyer he could find cost him $50,000US. The original judge ruled very rationally that there was no reason he should be named in the suit and dismissed him. Then LG asked for a change of venue to California and that judge reversed the decision, so his lawyer returned asking for another $50,000. This basically destroyed his business and he was forced to file chapter 11 and now he is in debt up to his ears as many clients who owed him never paid him and he is stuck trying to eek out a living doing odd jobs.
I really think something needs to be done about this sort of thing...
I guess you are not at a public institution in Virginia, USA. We are forbidden to use any gov't computers to access or display indecent material, thanks to our previous bible-thumping, puritanical governor. While this may sound like a wonderful and 'common sense' idea to some, it has already had a major effect in squelching research at my university. One professor's research into human sexuality was yanked right off the web because of this idiocy.
Maybe we could finally find a positive use for all those excess nukes we have. IANANE (I am not a nuclear engineer), so I don't know if the stuff in those things can be used for such a thing.
Furthermore, even a frothing racist needs to eat. Man cannot live on hate alone. So I am sure many a frothing racist has knives in their kitchen that they actually use to prepare food and they are not neccessarily out murdering those they hate every night.
I think in 20 or so years school children will be reciting this:
I pledge allegiance to flag of the Incorporated States America, and to the Profit for which it stands, one Corporation under God, indivisible, with avarice and AOL for all.
Don't worry. The auto manufacturers are probably working on an even larger, more wasteful, SUV that will do just this so that those that choose to drive these monstrosities can be even more "comfortably in command*."
My point was that classical mechanics becomes a kludge/impossible when trying to describe something like an electron's orbit or a Young's double slit experiment or Stern-Gerlach, etc. I do see your point about classical mechanics being "simpler" in the sense that it assumes a deterministic universe and many have found that unsatisfying. And I do agree that elements of QM are ugly and not elegant at all. But I think this is just fuel for the philisophical arguement that QM is not the end of the story and there is a deeper truth that we've yet to discover.
QM is more simple than the classical alternative explanations (or lack thereof) for things like the UV catastrophe wrt a black box cavity or why the electron does not plop into the nucleus of an atom (classically, it is an accelerating charge, so it should radiate and lose energy), etc., etc. That said, there may be a deeper truth that is even more simple and more elegant than QM (I believe there is). Better theories always seem to tend this way. Look what special relativity did for physics. It got rid of that silly idea of an all pervading ether (among other things).
Not even close. Early astronomers went nuts trying to figure out (for instance) why some planets made figure-eight trajectories. When Copernicus, who suggested a heliocentric solar system and then Kepler came with his observation that planets can travel in elliptical orbits, the who system became very much understood and simplified. Truth in nature tends to be this way: simple and elegant.
Ok fine, Mr. Cynical. I should not feed the trolls, but why not just fire up your favorite packet sniffer and
telnet physics.gmu.edu 80
and read the damn timestamps on the packets. If you don't like that, then why not get nmap and do this:
[root@ns linux]# nmap -p 80 -O physics.gmu.edu
Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA30 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
Warning: OS detection will be MUCH less reliable because we did not find at least 1 open and 1 closed TCP port
Interesting ports on physics.gmu.edu (129.174.44.73):
Port State Service
80/tcp open http
Remote operating system guess: Linux Kernel 2.4.0 - 2.4.9 (X86)
Uptime 85.358 days (since Mon Nov 5 11:17:19 2001)
BTW, if you must know, we ran out of HD space and needed to add more and move around some partitions. We aquired new faculty working with Chandra and their hunger for diskspace is immense.
We have a poor little SMP Linux server in our physics department that is way overloaded with performing scientific calculations. It is typically running with a load average of anywhere from 4-8 and runs jobs sometimes for weeks or even months at time and right now has an uptime of 3 months (this would be higher, but we had to change some hardware). I think where this becomes more critical is with large scale machines with upwards of 32 CPU's. For instance, I am sure that a beowulf cluster would be more suseptible to failure than a large Origin. That said though, they can be made to work.
I agree with you in theory, but when put into practice, they yield end results that are more similar than different at least when it comes to basic human rights.
In my opinion, the political spectrum is really sort of circular. Once you go so far left or so far right you just end up at a meeting point. For instance, I don't see too much difference between Hitler and Stalin.
While I am no fan of the "New Kids On The Block", I would suggest that Mark Walburg is a pretty good actor, so they did have at least one talented person. "Boogie Nights" is one of my favorite movies of all time.
As far as today's music is concerned, it does seem to lack something in the talent dept. I do not hear on popular radio any bands who could even come close to matching the talents of bands in previous eras such as Steely Dan, The Beatles, The Police or (ironically enough for this subject) Metallica. I remember trying to learn to play songs from these groups when I was younger and it was really difficult. Most things I hear on the radio today I could probably learn in a matter of minutes. I guess this is why I listen to NPR now. I have become my parents:)
Here is a gem for you. This stupid locker ruined my trip to Munich, Germany. In fact, they've computerized a lot of these lockers in the train station in Munich where I was staying. *None* of them worked. This one (and the it was the only one) just gave the pretense of working. It would take your five DM and allow you to select a locker, and then you'd get the above error and lose your money. Since I could not find a working locker, I was forced to skip Munich altogether this summer.
I wonder how DH Brown is going to reconcile their anti-Linux FUD and this .
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Not if you do a recompile and do not include support for such features (e.g., DRI). I guess if you were really worried about it, you also could build a monolithic kernel with no loadable module support.
> By-the-way, their is no seperation of church
> and state clause in the Bill of Rights, nor is
> it implied. It simply doesn't exist, period.
What is more important: The literal meaning of the words written in the Bill of Rights or the meaning and political philosophy of the authors? I submit that you must take into consideration the context in which these were written. If you read the writings of Jefferson and Madison, there most certainly is a "wall of seperation between church and state", as Jefferson put it. In fact the first draft of the first amendment, authored by Madison begins as follows:
"The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, nor on any pretext infringed..."
One of the prime motivating factors behind this seperation is the Framer's distaste for the authoritarian power of the established churches in Europe coupled with the ascent of reason to oppose blinding faith.
By the way, there was once a time when the church ruled and everyone was a god-fearing Christian. We now refer to this time as the dark ages. This is one reason why we need that wall.
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He was incorporated. Maybe I do not totally understand his situation now. I am just repeating what he told me and this happened a year ago and I am old and my memory is not what it used to be.
I worked for a small but profitable mom and pop computer supply company and was good friends with the owner. He was included in a lawsuit against ASUS by LG Electronics for patent infringement for no other reason other than he happened to be the closest ASUS dealer to the Alexandria, VA courthouse. The cheapest lawyer he could find cost him $50,000US. The original judge ruled very rationally that there was no reason he should be named in the suit and dismissed him. Then LG asked for a change of venue to California and that judge reversed the decision, so his lawyer returned asking for another $50,000. This basically destroyed his business and he was forced to file chapter 11 and now he is in debt up to his ears as many clients who owed him never paid him and he is stuck trying to eek out a living doing odd jobs.
I really think something needs to be done about this sort of thing...
I guess you are not at a public institution in Virginia, USA. We are forbidden to use any gov't computers to access or display indecent material, thanks to our previous bible-thumping, puritanical governor. While this may sound like a wonderful and 'common sense' idea to some, it has already had a major effect in squelching research at my university. One professor's research into human sexuality was yanked right off the web because of this idiocy.
What's a Blackberry (other than a small fruit)?
It is still going through MSN. Yucko.
Maybe we could finally find a positive use for all those excess nukes we have. IANANE (I am not a nuclear engineer), so I don't know if the stuff in those things can be used for such a thing.
Then why do they have "statutory rape?"
Furthermore, even a frothing racist needs to eat. Man cannot live on hate alone. So I am sure many a frothing racist has knives in their kitchen that they actually use to prepare food and they are not neccessarily out murdering those they hate every night.
I think in 20 or so years school children will be reciting this:
I pledge allegiance to flag of the Incorporated States America, and to the Profit for which it stands, one Corporation under God, indivisible, with avarice and AOL for all.
> Organized religion
:)
He said advance, not regress
Don't worry. The auto manufacturers are probably working on an even larger, more wasteful, SUV that will do just this so that those that choose to drive these monstrosities can be even more "comfortably in command*."
*Slogan from the Chevy Suburban.
My point was that classical mechanics becomes a kludge/impossible when trying to describe something like an electron's orbit or a Young's double slit experiment or Stern-Gerlach, etc. I do see your point about classical mechanics being "simpler" in the sense that it assumes a deterministic universe and many have found that unsatisfying. And I do agree that elements of QM are ugly and not elegant at all. But I think this is just fuel for the philisophical arguement that QM is not the end of the story and there is a deeper truth that we've yet to discover.
QM is more simple than the classical alternative explanations (or lack thereof) for things like the UV catastrophe wrt a black box cavity or why the electron does not plop into the nucleus of an atom (classically, it is an accelerating charge, so it should radiate and lose energy), etc., etc. That said, there may be a deeper truth that is even more simple and more elegant than QM (I believe there is). Better theories always seem to tend this way. Look what special relativity did for physics. It got rid of that silly idea of an all pervading ether (among other things).
Not even close. Early astronomers went nuts trying to figure out (for instance) why some planets made figure-eight trajectories. When Copernicus, who suggested a heliocentric solar system and then Kepler came with his observation that planets can travel in elliptical orbits, the who system became very much understood and simplified. Truth in nature tends to be this way: simple and elegant.
Ok fine, Mr. Cynical. I should not feed the trolls, but why not just fire up your favorite packet sniffer and
telnet physics.gmu.edu 80
and read the damn timestamps on the packets. If you don't like that, then why not get nmap and do this:
[root@ns linux]# nmap -p 80 -O physics.gmu.edu
Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA30 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
Warning: OS detection will be MUCH less reliable because we did not find at least 1 open and 1 closed TCP port
Interesting ports on physics.gmu.edu (129.174.44.73):
Port State Service
80/tcp open http
Remote operating system guess: Linux Kernel 2.4.0 - 2.4.9 (X86)
Uptime 85.358 days (since Mon Nov 5 11:17:19 2001)
BTW, if you must know, we ran out of HD space and needed to add more and move around some partitions. We aquired new faculty working with Chandra and their hunger for diskspace is immense.
[root@physics log]# w
6:17pm up 85 days, 7:03, 18 users, load average: 4.56, 4.55, 4.59
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
We have a poor little SMP Linux server in our physics department that is way overloaded with performing scientific calculations. It is typically running with a load average of anywhere from 4-8 and runs jobs sometimes for weeks or even months at time and right now has an uptime of 3 months (this would be higher, but we had to change some hardware). I think where this becomes more critical is with large scale machines with upwards of 32 CPU's. For instance, I am sure that a beowulf cluster would be more suseptible to failure than a large Origin. That said though, they can be made to work.
I agree with you in theory, but when put into practice, they yield end results that are more similar than different at least when it comes to basic human rights.
In my opinion, the political spectrum is really sort of circular. Once you go so far left or so far right you just end up at a meeting point. For instance, I don't see too much difference between Hitler and Stalin.
While I am no fan of the "New Kids On The Block", I would suggest that Mark Walburg is a pretty good actor, so they did have at least one talented person. "Boogie Nights" is one of my favorite movies of all time.
:)
As far as today's music is concerned, it does seem to lack something in the talent dept. I do not hear on popular radio any bands who could even come close to matching the talents of bands in previous eras such as Steely Dan, The Beatles, The Police or (ironically enough for this subject) Metallica. I remember trying to learn to play songs from these groups when I was younger and it was really difficult. Most things I hear on the radio today I could probably learn in a matter of minutes. I guess this is why I listen to NPR now. I have become my parents
Here is a gem for you. This stupid locker ruined my trip to Munich, Germany. In fact, they've computerized a lot of these lockers in the train station in Munich where I was staying. *None* of them worked. This one (and the it was the only one) just gave the pretense of working. It would take your five DM and allow you to select a locker, and then you'd get the above error and lose your money. Since I could not find a working locker, I was forced to skip Munich altogether this summer.
I wonder how DH Brown is going to reconcile their anti-Linux FUD and this .
Not if you do a recompile and do not include support for such features (e.g., DRI). I guess if you were really worried about it, you also could build a monolithic kernel with no loadable module support.
> By-the-way, their is no seperation of church
> and state clause in the Bill of Rights, nor is
> it implied. It simply doesn't exist, period.
What is more important: The literal meaning of the words written in the Bill of Rights or the meaning and political philosophy of the authors? I submit that you must take into consideration the context in which these were written. If you read the writings of Jefferson and Madison, there most certainly is a "wall of seperation between church and state", as Jefferson put it. In fact the first draft of the first amendment, authored by Madison begins as follows:
"The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, nor on any pretext infringed..."
One of the prime motivating factors behind this seperation is the Framer's distaste for the authoritarian power of the established churches in Europe coupled with the ascent of reason to oppose blinding faith.
By the way, there was once a time when the church ruled and everyone was a god-fearing Christian. We now refer to this time as the dark ages. This is one reason why we need that wall.