Willingly is way off. He had a monopoly position in operating systems that made it literally impossible to buy computer equipment without giving Microsoft money.
Did someone force you to buy a computer? No, you willingly departed with your money in exchange for a computer. Despite the way we behave around here computers are still, in fact, not a necessity of life.
Well, I never said he's giving cold hard cash to poor kids in other countries did I? And I appreciate your point, but geez, it's just a saying and it's still applies. No matter what manipulations the wealth goes through, the fact is he's still giving it away.
One thing I really like about the philanthropic gestures from the Bill and Melinda foundation is that their fortune is new money and it all came from selling software to the middle class or above. It's literally taking (willingly) from the rich and giving to the poor.
From TF post: It's one of those rare "perfect" kernels. So if it doesn't
happen to compile with your config (or it does compile, but then does
unspeakable acts of perversion with your pet dachshund), you can rest easy
knowing that it's all your own d*mn fault, and you should just fix your
evil ways.
You could send me and the kernel mailing list a note about it anyway, of
course. (And perhaps pictures, if your dachshund is involved. Not that
we'd be interested, of course. No. Just so that we'd know to avoid it next
time).
So.. Who has a dachshund and a camera? And what does a kernel doing unspeakable acts of perversion with a dog look like anyway?
Assuming storage doubles every year, in 10 years we'll have 1024 times as much storage. Making the future Ipod's largest offering 80 terabytes. Well, that's closer than I thought it would be, but still not enough storage.
And your estimate doesn't count all the news, documentaries, home and security video. And that's only today's total video. I imagine in 10 years when every single device has a camera on it that's running all the time, there will be plenty more video out there.
Just FYI, the Black Panthers were socialist. They did not have an anti-white agenda and often worked with, and had the support of the more leftist white people and organizations, including politicians and celebrities. See for yourself.
A better example of racists might have been Nation of Islam members.
True, I should address the actual argument, and would if the naysayer stated their objections to me. But when people argue about global warming they're not talking to the climatologists, they're just ranting at other people who also don't know anything.
So my analogy was a bit off. Instead of it being like some layman trying to tell me what's wrong with quantum theory it's more like some layman arguing with other non-physicists about what's wrong with quantum theory.
You mean to tell me that it only just now occurred to someone to send an entangled photon through a spool of fiber and see how >it affects its twin, which took a direct path?
That's been done. I think the new thing here is that the photons are now outside of each other's light cone. Before with entanglement experiments the photons were still close enough to each other during the measurements that a naysayer could claim that when the first measurement was made a signal (traveling Also, I thought entanglement couldn't be used to transmit information, as a consequence of Somebody or Another's Law.
Law of causality. If these systems could be used to transmit information, they could send information faster than the speed of light.
Can anyone clarify just what this poorly-written and sensational article is actually saying?
Take two entangled photons and send one really far away. Since it's known that measuring the state of the one far away will result in knowing what the state of the close one is one could claim a) that the one far away sent an instantaneous signal to the close one, telling it what state to be in or
b) if you measure the close one first, that the one you sent away sent it's information from the 50 microsecond-in-the-future-measurement back in time to the moment you measured the close one.
I think the physicists working on this would say both of those interpretations are wrong.
It carries no useful information, and it's not going 'backwards in time'. It's just two entangled particles outside of each other's light cone. Once one particle is found to be in a certain state, the state of the other particle will be instantly known, but no information is traveling back in time or faster than the speed of light.
It would be cool to see it actually happen, since previous entanglement experiments have never put the particles outside of each other's light cone, but the effect is something that physicists have understood (as much as anything in quantum physics is) for decades. In the article one of them say they don't really expect it to work, but I'd guess this is for technical reasons. No one expects that it won't work for theoretical reasons.
Speaking of hubris; I am amazed at how people can speak with such authority on this subject when they are not doing any kind of real research into the matter at all. What makes someone think that they know more about this subject than the climatologists who have worked on this for decades? That's like some layman trying to tell me (a physicist) what's wrong with quantum theory.
No one here, including me, knows crap about what they're saying unless they're quoting a sound and well established study. Don't think humans are causing global warming? Then go argue with these scientists. I'm sure they'll be glad to hear where their research went wrong.
You'd need to toss X and its bazillion GUI toolkits, and replace them with something new. Then you'd need to organize a Human Interface Police, whose job it is to kick developers who don't follow the guidelines.
There's nothing wrong with X, no one is forced to use multiple toolkits. One toolkit and one Human Interface Guideline is exactly what GNOME is. Apps that don't follow the HIG don't get accepted as 'official' GNOME apps. In fact, GNOME is striving for everything you suggest, they're just not completely there yet. That's a big reason why Ubuntu was GNOME only in the beginning.
the dirty grunt work would be assigned to a technician. Or by grad students.
Which brings us to the real dirtiest job in science: being a grad student. It doesn't matter what crap jobs the scientists in the article have, it's still better than indentured servitude.
He probably hasn't seen Office Space, and maybe you haven't seen the Boondocks. It's just a coincidence that they both covered this topic. Here's a Boondocks clip; funny stuff
One of the many funny quotes in that clip:
Wife: Tom, did you erase all my mp3s?
Husband: Hey, file sharing is a crime. And I'm not gonna be anally raped so you can listen to Usher.
Besides, what busy geek hasn't had to make do with a sink at one time or another because they were too dedicated to the experiment/simulation/code they were working on to go home and take a proper shower?
It may be that in the case of well established democracies, like the UK and Finland, there is never the need to criticize to the point where a journalist could get in trouble. Sure the press can ridicule and criticize the ruling party, but what happens when they start ridiculing and criticizing the system itself? Doing things like calling for a theocracy, or for the queen to be arrested? I think you'd quickly see the government asserting their control over the press with a heavy hand.
Of course, calling for a theocracy or arrest of royalty would be a crazy thing to do and will probably never happen in countries like modern Britain and Finland, since everything is going fairly well. Some of those countries who rank low on this freedom-of-press scale may not be so bad when it comes to press freedom, it's just that the country itself is so messed up that the solutions border on treason, so when the journalists call for the proper solution, they get in trouble.
There are several countries I can think of that, since the end of the cold war, have been able to get a fledgling democracy going. But at the same time there are factions still trying to instigate war, or otherwise topple the government. The press in places like that may be allowed to criticize the current president or prime minister and the way they do things, but as soon as they criticize the system itself as a whole, they are considered to be siding with insurgents/revolutionaries. Which may actually be the right thing to do if the government is turning totalitarian.
So, it may be fine to have state sponsored media when things are all well and good, but when things go sour it might be better to have some media that is completely, politically and economically, independent of any part of the government.
It's not just you. Plenty of people, including me, like the UI. I can't believe the arrogance of some people to state that their opinion of an obviously subjective matter is "a simple fact".
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Willingly is way off. He had a monopoly position in operating systems that made it literally impossible to buy computer equipment without giving Microsoft money.
Did someone force you to buy a computer? No, you willingly departed with your money in exchange for a computer. Despite the way we behave around here computers are still, in fact, not a necessity of life.
Well, I never said he's giving cold hard cash to poor kids in other countries did I? And I appreciate your point, but geez, it's just a saying and it's still applies. No matter what manipulations the wealth goes through, the fact is he's still giving it away.
One thing I really like about the philanthropic gestures from the Bill and Melinda foundation is that their fortune is new money and it all came from selling software to the middle class or above. It's literally taking (willingly) from the rich and giving to the poor.
From TF post:
It's one of those rare "perfect" kernels. So if it doesn't happen to compile with your config (or it does compile, but then does unspeakable acts of perversion with your pet dachshund), you can rest easy knowing that it's all your own d*mn fault, and you should just fix your evil ways.
You could send me and the kernel mailing list a note about it anyway, of course. (And perhaps pictures, if your dachshund is involved. Not that we'd be interested, of course. No. Just so that we'd know to avoid it next time).
So.. Who has a dachshund and a camera? And what does a kernel doing unspeakable acts of perversion with a dog look like anyway?
Here's the other part of the math:
Assuming storage doubles every year, in 10 years we'll have 1024 times as much storage. Making the future Ipod's largest offering 80 terabytes. Well, that's closer than I thought it would be, but still not enough storage.
And your estimate doesn't count all the news, documentaries, home and security video. And that's only today's total video. I imagine in 10 years when every single device has a camera on it that's running all the time, there will be plenty more video out there.
There are lots of real science museums. These are just the ones I've been to, but they're probably all around.
Ontario Science Centre
Chicago science museum
Boston science museum
Ann Arbor Hands on museum
Estimates of when fusion would be a viable energy source didn't take into account years of under-funding. ITER could have been done years ago.
This comment was supposed to go here.
Shit. The above comment was supposed to be in reply to this one.
Just FYI, the Black Panthers were socialist. They did not have an anti-white agenda and often worked with, and had the support of the more leftist white people and organizations, including politicians and celebrities. See for yourself.
A better example of racists might have been Nation of Islam members.
True, I should address the actual argument, and would if the naysayer stated their objections to me. But when people argue about global warming they're not talking to the climatologists, they're just ranting at other people who also don't know anything.
So my analogy was a bit off. Instead of it being like some layman trying to tell me what's wrong with quantum theory it's more like some layman arguing with other non-physicists about what's wrong with quantum theory.
Yeah, my memory sucks. I honestly don't know what's supposed to be new about this experiment.
You mean to tell me that it only just now occurred to someone to send an entangled photon through a spool of fiber and see how >it affects its twin, which took a direct path?
That's been done. I think the new thing here is that the photons are now outside of each other's light cone. Before with entanglement experiments the photons were still close enough to each other during the measurements that a naysayer could claim that when the first measurement was made a signal (traveling
Also, I thought entanglement couldn't be used to transmit information, as a consequence of Somebody or Another's Law.
Law of causality. If these systems could be used to transmit information, they could send information faster than the speed of light.
Can anyone clarify just what this poorly-written and sensational article is actually saying?
Take two entangled photons and send one really far away. Since it's known that measuring the state of the one far away will result in knowing what the state of the close one is one could claim
a) that the one far away sent an instantaneous signal to the close one, telling it what state to be in or
b) if you measure the close one first, that the one you sent away sent it's information from the 50 microsecond-in-the-future-measurement back in time to the moment you measured the close one.
I think the physicists working on this would say both of those interpretations are wrong.
It carries no useful information, and it's not going 'backwards in time'. It's just two entangled particles outside of each other's light cone. Once one particle is found to be in a certain state, the state of the other particle will be instantly known, but no information is traveling back in time or faster than the speed of light.
It would be cool to see it actually happen, since previous entanglement experiments have never put the particles outside of each other's light cone, but the effect is something that physicists have understood (as much as anything in quantum physics is) for decades. In the article one of them say they don't really expect it to work, but I'd guess this is for technical reasons. No one expects that it won't work for theoretical reasons.
Speaking of hubris; I am amazed at how people can speak with such authority on this subject when they are not doing any kind of real research into the matter at all. What makes someone think that they know more about this subject than the climatologists who have worked on this for decades? That's like some layman trying to tell me (a physicist) what's wrong with quantum theory.
No one here, including me, knows crap about what they're saying unless they're quoting a sound and well established study. Don't think humans are causing global warming? Then go argue with these scientists. I'm sure they'll be glad to hear where their research went wrong.
Pfft! That's small time. I'm gonna sell this great software toolkit I just acquired.
You'd need to toss X and its bazillion GUI toolkits, and replace them with something new. Then you'd need to organize a Human Interface Police, whose job it is to kick developers who don't follow the guidelines.
There's nothing wrong with X, no one is forced to use multiple toolkits. One toolkit and one Human Interface Guideline is exactly what GNOME is. Apps that don't follow the HIG don't get accepted as 'official' GNOME apps. In fact, GNOME is striving for everything you suggest, they're just not completely there yet. That's a big reason why Ubuntu was GNOME only in the beginning.
the dirty grunt work would be assigned to a technician. Or by grad students.
Which brings us to the real dirtiest job in science: being a grad student. It doesn't matter what crap jobs the scientists in the article have, it's still better than indentured servitude.
He probably hasn't seen Office Space, and maybe you haven't seen the Boondocks. It's just a coincidence that they both covered this topic. Here's a Boondocks clip; funny stuff
One of the many funny quotes in that clip:
Wife: Tom, did you erase all my mp3s?
Husband: Hey, file sharing is a crime. And I'm not gonna be anally raped so you can listen to Usher.
Besides, what busy geek hasn't had to make do with a sink at one time or another because they were too dedicated to the experiment/simulation/code they were working on to go home and take a proper shower?
From 2000 'till now I went through phases I like to call:
The recoup phase; where I downloaded stuff I had on vinyl, and tape, god how I hate tapes.
The expansion phase; where I experimented with new genres.
The hoarding phase; where I got anything I thought I might possibly ever like now or sometime in the future.
The plateau phase; where I finally realized that I have more music than I will ever listen to, and therefore should be more selective.
I'm sure there will be plenty of insightful comments in the next little while..
Just wait here while I go, umm, write some..
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It may be that in the case of well established democracies, like the UK and Finland, there is never the need to criticize to the point where a journalist could get in trouble. Sure the press can ridicule and criticize the ruling party, but what happens when they start ridiculing and criticizing the system itself? Doing things like calling for a theocracy, or for the queen to be arrested? I think you'd quickly see the government asserting their control over the press with a heavy hand.
Of course, calling for a theocracy or arrest of royalty would be a crazy thing to do and will probably never happen in countries like modern Britain and Finland, since everything is going fairly well. Some of those countries who rank low on this freedom-of-press scale may not be so bad when it comes to press freedom, it's just that the country itself is so messed up that the solutions border on treason, so when the journalists call for the proper solution, they get in trouble.
There are several countries I can think of that, since the end of the cold war, have been able to get a fledgling democracy going. But at the same time there are factions still trying to instigate war, or otherwise topple the government. The press in places like that may be allowed to criticize the current president or prime minister and the way they do things, but as soon as they criticize the system itself as a whole, they are considered to be siding with insurgents/revolutionaries. Which may actually be the right thing to do if the government is turning totalitarian.
So, it may be fine to have state sponsored media when things are all well and good, but when things go sour it might be better to have some media that is completely, politically and economically, independent of any part of the government.
Yes, and it says:
I made Jobs (more) rich and all I got was a program and this lousy bumper sticker.
It's not just you. Plenty of people, including me, like the UI. I can't believe the arrogance of some people to state that their opinion of an obviously subjective matter is "a simple fact".