I think they do have to dumb down modern physics that much
Well if they had gone through a bunch of calculations, I would have gotten nothing out of it and probably wouldn't have spent more than 5 minutes on it. This program was not meant to explain string theory to physicists; it was targeted at people who have a basic knowledge of physics or less. The intention was not to show how the theory was formed but to give an overview of it.
Perhaps but it is still not testible at the moment (and neither is general evolution because of the time scales involced.) There were scientists on the above mentioned PBS program that, while being supporters of string theory, said that it was dangerously close to philosophy as opposed to science.
I watched it several nights ago. I felt it was well done. It gave me a grasp of the concept of string theory without going into details and calculations that would be meaningless to me. If you have no more physics background than a semester or two in college this might be a good program for you. Any more and you might be bored.
Furthermore, your assertion that speeds are a safety issue are actually quite irrelevant. There exist private tracks specifically for racing cars. If speed limits were a safety issue, then why aren't these tracks closed down?
That is the worst argument that I have ever heard. It's not even worth attacking.
As far as speed being a safty issue, it definitely is. I used to have a old VW Bug which could hit about 70mph (still above the 65mph limit in the area in which I live.) If a semi or even an regular truck passed me going 15 or 20mph faster, the air displacement would give me a huge jolt and make my car very difficult to handle. Rain made it much worse.
With the case of the moon, the Earth's rotation is slowed down enough such that on average, the day is lengthened by 15 microseconds every year. At the same time, the moon gets 38 mm further from the Earth over the same period. This is a result of the two bodies being tidally locked (i.e., having synchronized rotations such that one side of the moon is always facing the Earth).
Where did these numbers come from? They are such small amounts at this scale that it's a little hard for me to believe there is empirical evidence for this. Is there or is this just theory?
I made part of the switch at the end of thanksgiving. other than the transprancy I don't notice much of the cool effects anymore.
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OS X has the most of the features of *nix yet it has very few of the down falls(drivers, okay that's all I can think of).
I have had a similar experience. The OSX gives you the ability to use the *nix tools when you need to plus provides a very usable and standardized interface that doesn't get in the way. I have found no interface in the Linux world that even comes close to it.
I don't really think that it's a fair comparison. When people shop at Walmart (especially for Christmas) they tend to buy a whole lot of stuff. When most people (or from my experience at least) shop online, they purchase one or two items at a time and from different stores at that. It is much easier to stroll down every isle in walmart and look at every product than it is to see all of amazon's offerings.
Plus, if you addd the digits in 13, you get 4 (April being the fourth month of the year.) On top of that if, you subtract 4 (month) and 13 (day) from 2029 and add those digits, you get 5 which is amazingly the same number that you get when you sum the digits in 202 and subtract that from 9.
The firewall should be blocking remote computer from accessing open ports, not localhost from accessing its own ports. When your firewall just blocks all packets instead of using a common-sense rule (allowing all packets from localhost), it causes problems that it shouldn't.
IIRC, the original XP firewall blocked remote access attempts. I want to know exactly which applications on my machine are trying to access the internet and I want to know what they are sending which is percisely why I use a software firewall on XP in addition to my router.
Yeah, Kentucky has Versailles (pronounced Ver-sails), Bagdhad, Athens (pronounced with a long A), Paris, London and Frankfort (as opposed to Frankfurt.) I'm sure I'm missing a few as well. Anyway, these cities are all just as nice if not nicer than their international counterparts.
I'd have to agree there. I don't think either interface is better or worse. They are just different. I personally believe that they both have somewhat poor interfaces.
Actually, I DO work in support for Unix systems at repair shops no less. Of course *some* people do not know these things but to say "most" people, is a gross exaggeration.
I'd love to get a nanode but it will be rediculasly expensive. If I remember correctly, the cubit was around $300 USD. That would be close to the price of my system.
I'm looking to build a mini-itx file server with a RAID card and two hard drives but available cases are just butt-ugly. I don't need something beautiful, just not an eyesore. You either have cases that look nice but are too expensive (such as cubit), the ones that completely ignore looks for functionality or the ones that try to look "cool" with wierd colors and designs on them.
Every single thread. Just make a post about how stupid the masses are and get modded up. Slashdotters seem to think that they are so superior to the rest of the world. I am so tired of this arrogance.
I have never met anyone who uses a computer and doesn't realize the difference between left click, right click and double click.
A sticking point is that Apple probably can't get a perfect.doc file importer (nor can MS) and Apple really really likes to have everything work flawlessly or not at all.
I believe that TextEdit will open.doc files as it is now. I haven't tried to open anything complicated in it so I can't say for sure how well it handles it. They would at least have a starting place.
Chance of no event in a 455 year period: 454/455 = 99.8%
Actually the AC has a point, though the 100% chance part is incorrect. In my original statement I was thing along the same lines that you seem to be. The statement that I quoted from you would be true if it was a 1/455 chance to happen every year, not every 100 years. so a 1/455 chance every 100 years is the same as a 1/45500 chance every year.
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It's not just eBay. eBay was just the latest to drop it.
Perhaps Ebay's decision to drop it was the final straw.
I think they do have to dumb down modern physics that much
Well if they had gone through a bunch of calculations, I would have gotten nothing out of it and probably wouldn't have spent more than 5 minutes on it. This program was not meant to explain string theory to physicists; it was targeted at people who have a basic knowledge of physics or less. The intention was not to show how the theory was formed but to give an overview of it.
Good theories are rigorous and predictive.
Perhaps but it is still not testible at the moment (and neither is general evolution because of the time scales involced.) There were scientists on the above mentioned PBS program that, while being supporters of string theory, said that it was dangerously close to philosophy as opposed to science.
I watched it several nights ago. I felt it was well done. It gave me a grasp of the concept of string theory without going into details and calculations that would be meaningless to me. If you have no more physics background than a semester or two in college this might be a good program for you. Any more and you might be bored.
Furthermore, your assertion that speeds are a safety issue are actually quite irrelevant. There exist private tracks specifically for racing cars. If speed limits were a safety issue, then why aren't these tracks closed down?
That is the worst argument that I have ever heard. It's not even worth attacking.
As far as speed being a safty issue, it definitely is. I used to have a old VW Bug which could hit about 70mph (still above the 65mph limit in the area in which I live.) If a semi or even an regular truck passed me going 15 or 20mph faster, the air displacement would give me a huge jolt and make my car very difficult to handle. Rain made it much worse.
With the case of the moon, the Earth's rotation is slowed down enough such that on average, the day is lengthened by 15 microseconds every year. At the same time, the moon gets 38 mm further from the Earth over the same period. This is a result of the two bodies being tidally locked (i.e., having synchronized rotations such that one side of the moon is always facing the Earth).
Where did these numbers come from? They are such small amounts at this scale that it's a little hard for me to believe there is empirical evidence for this. Is there or is this just theory?
I made part of the switch at the end of thanksgiving. other than the transprancy I don't notice much of the cool effects anymore.
...
OS X has the most of the features of *nix yet it has very few of the down falls(drivers, okay that's all I can think of).
I have had a similar experience. The OSX gives you the ability to use the *nix tools when you need to plus provides a very usable and standardized interface that doesn't get in the way. I have found no interface in the Linux world that even comes close to it.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/0 8/221212&tid=216&tid=126&tid=1&tid=14
I don't really think that it's a fair comparison. When people shop at Walmart (especially for Christmas) they tend to buy a whole lot of stuff. When most people (or from my experience at least) shop online, they purchase one or two items at a time and from different stores at that. It is much easier to stroll down every isle in walmart and look at every product than it is to see all of amazon's offerings.
Plus, if you addd the digits in 13, you get 4 (April being the fourth month of the year.) On top of that if, you subtract 4 (month) and 13 (day) from 2029 and add those digits, you get 5 which is amazingly the same number that you get when you sum the digits in 202 and subtract that from 9.
Point being, well actually I have no point.
The firewall should be blocking remote computer from accessing open ports, not localhost from accessing its own ports. When your firewall just blocks all packets instead of using a common-sense rule (allowing all packets from localhost), it causes problems that it shouldn't.
IIRC, the original XP firewall blocked remote access attempts. I want to know exactly which applications on my machine are trying to access the internet and I want to know what they are sending which is percisely why I use a software firewall on XP in addition to my router.
Yeah, Kentucky has Versailles (pronounced Ver-sails), Bagdhad, Athens (pronounced with a long A), Paris, London and Frankfort (as opposed to Frankfurt.) I'm sure I'm missing a few as well. Anyway, these cities are all just as nice if not nicer than their international counterparts.
I'd have to agree there. I don't think either interface is better or worse. They are just different. I personally believe that they both have somewhat poor interfaces.
Actually, I DO work in support for Unix systems at repair shops no less. Of course *some* people do not know these things but to say "most" people, is a gross exaggeration.
I'd love to get a nanode but it will be rediculasly expensive. If I remember correctly, the cubit was around $300 USD. That would be close to the price of my system.
I'm looking to build a mini-itx file server with a RAID card and two hard drives but available cases are just butt-ugly. I don't need something beautiful, just not an eyesore. You either have cases that look nice but are too expensive (such as cubit), the ones that completely ignore looks for functionality or the ones that try to look "cool" with wierd colors and designs on them.
I never said that nor is it implied in your quote of my post.
Every single thread. Just make a post about how stupid the masses are and get modded up. Slashdotters seem to think that they are so superior to the rest of the world. I am so tired of this arrogance.
I have never met anyone who uses a computer and doesn't realize the difference between left click, right click and double click.
his one is just uneducated. Tools -> Extensions. Wait... that's, um, more obvious than IE.
Perhaps it was at a time but SP2 gave IE a similar feature. I can't say how well it works though; just that it exists.
The escape button always works for me. If a site is going to give that message, I don't trust it enough to respect my choice of "No."
Geo, was GM rebrand of cars made by Toyota I beleive
I am fairly certain that it was Isuzu (sp?) but I guess it doesn't really matter. Your point is well made.
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Unfortunately google's crawler have crawled almost everything on the web, so why stop there?..on to the Desktop!!!
I wonder if something like this will be applied to P2P (or if it is even needed.)
A sticking point is that Apple probably can't get a perfect .doc file importer (nor can MS) and Apple really really likes to have everything work flawlessly or not at all.
.doc files as it is now. I haven't tried to open anything complicated in it so I can't say for sure how well it handles it. They would at least have a starting place.
I believe that TextEdit will open
Point made. I misread the original and stand corrected.
Chance of no event in a 455 year period: 454/455 = 99.8%
Actually the AC has a point, though the 100% chance part is incorrect. In my original statement I was thing along the same lines that you seem to be. The statement that I quoted from you would be true if it was a 1/455 chance to happen every year, not every 100 years. so a 1/455 chance every 100 years is the same as a 1/45500 chance every year.