sounds a lot like java applets. Is sun going to be targeted as well or is the company just against M$ using the concept of "mini programs". I think the patent should be thrown out because the concept is not anything that is really new just a specific case of an ongoing trend in software.
These experiment may show them what exsisted in the early universe, but it doesn't begin to explain how or why it came to be. Furthermore science really can't explain how the big bang occured. The laws of physics break in a singularity, which was what the universe was to begin with. Science can't say anything about it, since there's no proximate way to study or model it
This is just a way of saying that we can't explain why, but trust me we are right.
Don't get me wrong I'm in favor of scientific discovery, but I'm tired of scientist making claims that they just can't back up. They didn't recreate the big bang, they simply played the the fundimental matter that makes up subatomic particals.
Sure you can get a few people who will punch in for someone every once and a while or something what's the big deal. This just sounds like a gigantic waste of money to me.
Paying for employees time when they are not there is a waste of money too.
The point is more about forcing the employees to be responcible and accountable. Just about everywhere I worked cared more about your atendance and puncuality than they did about any other aspect of our with. Its not like is any different that using punch cards other than the employees can't cheat the system.
First if it is to represent the entire universe there should be stars beyond the point of the Big Bang. An Explosion is space would disperse matter in a rough spherical manner, thus the Big Bang should be in the center not at the far end. Either we are not able to see the stars on the "other side" of the Big Bang or the Big Bang theory is not valid. I have faith that the Big Bang theory is mostly sound so WE must acknowledge that the map is very incomplete. It should be the map of the known universe.
I can understand where you are coming from. I work in a federal building and have had many shoes that set it off when I go through. I would suggest running shoes for the trade shoes. They are build well and good shock absorption, and shouldn't have any metal in them. If you are having problems with other types of shoes, but boots seem to fit well, the problem could be you have a wide foot. Go to a real running store and explain the problem with one of the associates and they should be able to help you. I personally wear a 10 1/2 DD shoe. If the shoe is not extra wide DD or wider I get blisters and corns.
There is more to programming languages than pure speed. I have written programs in a number of languages and find it irritating when people start dissing languages because they are slower at run time. I have on numbers occations written applications for people in "slow" languages because it was easy to write, easy to maintain, and was not a time critical application. In most cases the speed limiting factor is the human sitting in front of the screen.
IMO a program should use whatever tools are available and appropreate for the job, and not just worry about what is faster.
"We think there is very good circumstantial evidence for a gamma ray burst."
The article clearly states that they have no real evidence to speak of. The only thing they do have is the ice age that occured at the time of the extintion. They admit that no traces of a supernova near earth can be found, and blame it on the rotation of the Milky way.
Melott said there is no known evidence of such a nearby supernova, but that in 440 million years the Milky Way would have rotated almost twice and traces of the explosion could have been moved during that time.
I will give them that it is a possibility, but until they have some more convencing evidence I'm not ready to jump aboard.
Think how close the planet must be to the star to make a complete rotation in 3.5 days. A year on Mercury takes 87.97 Earth days; it takes 87.97 Earth days for Mercury to orbit the sun once.
Logicly the planet must be closer much closer than Mercury is to our Sun. I could just be a phenomenon similar to the tides caused by the moon.
Is news to others. Many "Programmers" out there write code that does not do any error checking or catching and the result is all the crapware that we see today. We were all warned in our programming classes about memory leaks and buffer overflows, but they are still very prevalent in today's software. Perhaps we should all look harder at our code before selling off one it as a final product.
Before you blow a gasket perhaps you should talk to some anthropologist about "The Green Movement" and its failures. The way we do things in the US will not always work in other parts of the world. Secondly it's not just a matter of food it's also waste. Thirdly while the rate of growth has slowed it has not stopped. The world's population is still rising and we are running out of places to go. You can believe all you want that we can always just sprawl out more and more, but think of the consequences, deforestation, extinction of species, contamination of water sources, etc...
All I was trying to say was that we don't have a lot of data to realy back up the idea of global warming. However if you want to turn this is to a moral debate think about this:
Did you ever stop to think that maybe we shouldn't play god everytime. We screwed it up and you think we can fix it just as easily. The real problem is that we humans seem to be good at only one thing... breeding like rabbits. There are over 6 Billion people and in many parts of the world we can't adiquately feed ourselves. Maybe a good flood would do everyone a favor.
Before anyone jumps my case, think about crap we have done to the world and ourselves. We want everything our way and never want to pay the price.
Could just be a normal cycle in the earth long term weather. We are still technically in an ice age after all. The world has been much hotter than it is today and warming over the past couple of centuries does not necessarily mean the end of the world.
Funny thin this Versed... I have ADD and can no long be given Versed. They used it to do a scope in my lungs and it apparently hyped my up. I attempted to carry on conversations with the doctor inspite of a tube running up my nose and down into my lungs. I don't remember any of it but that is what the nurses told me later.
You honestly beleive that 44 simulations is enough to even suggest what the rest of the universe is like?
One model and 44 simulations of that model does not give insight to anything but the one model. Think of the number of peramiters and you will relize how limited 44 simulations is. There is elements than there are simulations. Then you have to consider dispertion of them at "start" time, etc. etc. etc...
This whole thing is one expensive guess, nothing more nothing less.
There is one thing you are overlooking we can test our theories on electrons and refine them. When is the last time you went to a remote star to check and see if their number crunching predicted what is really there. Lots of data and lots of processing doesn't me squat unless the data is good and the theories are sound. I can take lots of numbers and manipulate them on 400 computers and conclude that "Barney the Purple Dinosaur" is really Osama Bin Ladin, but that doesn't mean that its true. Verification is what separates the jackasses from real scientists.
Given that we only have a small sample size to base simulations of world formations how accurate could this be. We have never seen an actual formation of planets and can only infer what happens. It amazes me how pompous we humans are in thinking we know everything. At one point we were sure the world was flat, that everything was made of four elements, and that lightning was thrown by a large man wearing a toga.
Albert Einstein -
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
This will only catch on if "the price is right." To the average consumer it doesn't matter if it is better for the environment. The only thing most customers want out of this sort of technology is longer battery life, convenience, and price.
We have used stand alone tape systems, automated remote tape libraries, and a network accessible backup storage array with raid. It has been my experience that any backup system will work as long as the person responsible for the backups is making sure that they happen. I have seen several occations were one of "automated" backup systems failed and no one seemed to notice until a restore was needed. The key is making sure that the backups are happenning in the first place.
What happens when part of the system fails. For example the article mentioned cards that get scanned to identify which car it is storing and which car to retrieve when the driver returns. What if the card failed like some of my credit cards have in the past. Your now stuck in the middle of the city with your car being held hostage by an over grown vending machine. This isn't the only point of failure I see, but is the easies to illistrate.
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sounds a lot like java applets. Is sun going to be targeted as well or is the company just against M$ using the concept of "mini programs". I think the patent should be thrown out because the concept is not anything that is really new just a specific case of an ongoing trend in software.
This is just a way of saying that we can't explain why, but trust me we are right.
Don't get me wrong I'm in favor of scientific discovery, but I'm tired of scientist making claims that they just can't back up. They didn't recreate the big bang, they simply played the the fundimental matter that makes up subatomic particals.
Paying for employees time when they are not there is a waste of money too.
The point is more about forcing the employees to be responcible and accountable. Just about everywhere I worked cared more about your atendance and puncuality than they did about any other aspect of our with. Its not like is any different that using punch cards other than the employees can't cheat the system.
First if it is to represent the entire universe there should be stars beyond the point of the Big Bang. An Explosion is space would disperse matter in a rough spherical manner, thus the Big Bang should be in the center not at the far end. Either we are not able to see the stars on the "other side" of the Big Bang or the Big Bang theory is not valid. I have faith that the Big Bang theory is mostly sound so WE must acknowledge that the map is very incomplete. It should be the map of the known universe.
I can understand where you are coming from. I work in a federal building and have had many shoes that set it off when I go through. I would suggest running shoes for the trade shoes. They are build well and good shock absorption, and shouldn't have any metal in them. If you are having problems with other types of shoes, but boots seem to fit well, the problem could be you have a wide foot. Go to a real running store and explain the problem with one of the associates and they should be able to help you. I personally wear a 10 1/2 DD shoe. If the shoe is not extra wide DD or wider I get blisters and corns.
IMO a program should use whatever tools are available and appropreate for the job, and not just worry about what is faster.
Well maybe the model is wrong.
The article clearly states that they have no real evidence to speak of. The only thing they do have is the ice age that occured at the time of the extintion. They admit that no traces of a supernova near earth can be found, and blame it on the rotation of the Milky way.
Melott said there is no known evidence of such a nearby supernova, but that in 440 million years the Milky Way would have rotated almost twice and traces of the explosion could have been moved during that time.
I will give them that it is a possibility, but until they have some more convencing evidence I'm not ready to jump aboard.
A year on Mercury takes 87.97 Earth days; it takes 87.97 Earth days for Mercury to orbit the sun once.
Logicly the planet must be closer much closer than Mercury is to our Sun. I could just be a phenomenon similar to the tides caused by the moon.
SCO is just fishing for people to get this licence. The more people they get, if any, the more support they have for their pathetic case.
Is news to others. Many "Programmers" out there write code that does not do any error checking or catching and the result is all the crapware that we see today. We were all warned in our programming classes about memory leaks and buffer overflows, but they are still very prevalent in today's software. Perhaps we should all look harder at our code before selling off one it as a final product.
Before you blow a gasket perhaps you should talk to some anthropologist about "The Green Movement" and its failures. The way we do things in the US will not always work in other parts of the world. Secondly it's not just a matter of food it's also waste. Thirdly while the rate of growth has slowed it has not stopped. The world's population is still rising and we are running out of places to go. You can believe all you want that we can always just sprawl out more and more, but think of the consequences, deforestation, extinction of species, contamination of water sources, etc...
350 years out of about 4 billion is kind of a small sample
All I was trying to say was that we don't have a lot of data to realy back up the idea of global warming. However if you want to turn this is to a moral debate think about this: Did you ever stop to think that maybe we shouldn't play god everytime. We screwed it up and you think we can fix it just as easily. The real problem is that we humans seem to be good at only one thing... breeding like rabbits. There are over 6 Billion people and in many parts of the world we can't adiquately feed ourselves. Maybe a good flood would do everyone a favor. Before anyone jumps my case, think about crap we have done to the world and ourselves. We want everything our way and never want to pay the price.
Could just be a normal cycle in the earth long term weather. We are still technically in an ice age after all. The world has been much hotter than it is today and warming over the past couple of centuries does not necessarily mean the end of the world.
Funny thin this Versed... I have ADD and can no long be given Versed. They used it to do a scope in my lungs and it apparently hyped my up. I attempted to carry on conversations with the doctor inspite of a tube running up my nose and down into my lungs. I don't remember any of it but that is what the nurses told me later.
Uranus is the Closest. I always like how it looked.
You honestly beleive that 44 simulations is enough to even suggest what the rest of the universe is like?
One model and 44 simulations of that model does not give insight to anything but the one model. Think of the number of peramiters and you will relize how limited 44 simulations is. There is elements than there are simulations. Then you have to consider dispertion of them at "start" time, etc. etc. etc...
This whole thing is one expensive guess, nothing more nothing less.
There is one thing you are overlooking we can test our theories on electrons and refine them. When is the last time you went to a remote star to check and see if their number crunching predicted what is really there. Lots of data and lots of processing doesn't me squat unless the data is good and the theories are sound. I can take lots of numbers and manipulate them on 400 computers and conclude that "Barney the Purple Dinosaur" is really Osama Bin Ladin, but that doesn't mean that its true. Verification is what separates the jackasses from real scientists.
Albert Einstein -
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
This will only catch on if "the price is right." To the average consumer it doesn't matter if it is better for the environment. The only thing most customers want out of this sort of technology is longer battery life, convenience, and price.
We have used stand alone tape systems, automated remote tape libraries, and a network accessible backup storage array with raid. It has been my experience that any backup system will work as long as the person responsible for the backups is making sure that they happen. I have seen several occations were one of "automated" backup systems failed and no one seemed to notice until a restore was needed. The key is making sure that the backups are happenning in the first place.
Security updates for you car will be availible on the internet. Failure to update voids all warrenties.
Has everyone forgot about the "Billy Bass" and his friends. You can reprogram these things to say whatever you want them to.
What happens when part of the system fails. For example the article mentioned cards that get scanned to identify which car it is storing and which car to retrieve when the driver returns. What if the card failed like some of my credit cards have in the past. Your now stuck in the middle of the city with your car being held hostage by an over grown vending machine. This isn't the only point of failure I see, but is the easies to illistrate.