You seem to be under the impression that the universe is a grid made of Planck-sized boxes. It isn't. Particles can still be in continuous motion. And molecules are far, far bigger than the Planck distance.
See the other poster who replied to this thread, who defined "quantam".
A simple google search woudl reveal that the grandparent poster had simply picked a bad source, and that all other sources agree the Economist's description of the Allais effect is correct.
The parent post apparently did not bother to do enough thinking to realize that increased gravity on earth would slow down sattelites receeding from it.
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Ignorance speaks! RGB is a basis set only if you allow negative values of color. What does negative red look like? (Hint: it isn't green)
The Bach family was pretty good at passing on their genius, numbering 70 musicians over 7 generations, and J.S. himself had 20 babies...
however, Schubert's evolutionary instincts gave him syphillis...
Indeed, perhaps the second (the computer being the first) most versatile musical instrument ever created, the piano, required
half a century before talented composers, like Johann Christian Bach and Franz Liszt, were able to write memorable pieces for it.
J. C. Bach a 'memorable' composer? Probably 1 person in 1000 has heard his music.
And Franz Liszt? You're about a century off, buddy.
The article gets worse... it names Shigeru Miyamoto as the composer of the Mario Bros. tunes, implies the Mac was released in 1995... it goes on and on...
It bothers me. Sports uniforms, for instance, are absurdly expensive. The local high school pays $1000+ EACH for cheerleading uniforms. The same can be said for textbooks and senior pictures.
As for chalk, I haven't seen chalk become infected by viruses, or spyware, or chalk with Yahoo toolbar installed on it by clueless students, or chalk be attacked by worms that shut down parts of the Internet via the sheer amount of traffic they generate.
Yeah, and the same Jews who faked the Holocaust also faked the moon landing, right? No doubt related to the people who genetically engineered AIDS in 1959.
Metroid Prime was developed by Retro Studios, an American company.
You're right that MGS is a Konami game, though. But I was thinking of the Gamecube version, which was developed by Silicon Knights, a Canadian company.
This reminds me of the scene in Ace Ventura, where Jim Carrey talks out of his ass.
Zelda was a Japanese game. Or have you forgotten that Nintendo is a Japanese company?
Have you ever heard of Metal Gear Solid? How about Metroid Prime? Or Grand Theft Auto and its sequels? All American games, huge successes in the American market.
"What kind of jobs, Mr. Gates? Point-of-sale software programming jobs seems to be the only possibility--a mere fraction of programming jobs out there--which just happens to be the business that you are in."
This is actually SCO's market, isn't it? Hmm.
The second reply in the thread gets "redundant," and an apology from the parent poster gets modded "offtopic".
Responsible mods don't do this, but responsible mods don't give fools karma in the first place.
No, I won't pardon your ignorance, because you didn't RTFA.
If you want to know how it's a practical solution, maybe you could read the article. Or you don't even need to do that--just look at the picture of four monitors around one computer.
Vector processing. SSE for Intel and AMD, AltiVec for the G5, and 3DNow for AMD all are instruction sets that allow one to manipulate vectors of 4 floats or 2 doubles (or other assortments) as though they are one operand.
So if it can't be manifested in physical reality, it can't exist in mathematics?
Writing things down isn't "manifesting" something. Writing isn't intrinsically physical. It's graphite marks on a piece of paper. It has meaning in our heads. Countable sets can't be written down in terms of elements either, you fool.
Mathematics is an abstraction of physical reality. Not the other way around. Math can do whatever the hell it wants. IMO the only idea that can be manifested in physical reality is "one particle". And maybe not even that. "Two particles" is a result of the human abstraction of grouping things into sets with cardanality. "An atom" is a similar grouping with special properties.
A "mathematical thing" is a human idealization. Deal with it. There is no such thing as physical mathematics.
What's next? Imaginary numbers aren't "mathematical things"? Negative numbers aren't "mathematical things?" Real numbers aren't "mathematical things"? Fractions? Is any number smaller than Planck's constant "a mathematical thing"? Because it's not a part of physical reality! What about calculus? Can you observe a differential? Whoops, you can't! That must not be a "mathematical thing!" Goodbye, modern engeneering.
What a bizzare and incomprehensible rant. You lack the imagination to understand an uncountable set, therefore, they're meaningless?
Here's a task for you: explain how an uncountable set, say, the set of all non-finite strings of decimal digits, is not, as you claim, well-defined.
But, you say, a binary string is meaningless. "A number that cannot be written down or computed to a sufficient decimal expansion" is meaningless. So pi is meaningless, and e. Why are they meaningless? Because you say so. Why are they not mathematical? Because infinite things cannot possibly be mathematical, right?
The weirdest thing is that you seem to have no problem with an infinite decimal string--it is, after all, a countable N-tuple--but an infinite decimal string is not allowed to represent a number, since infinite decimal expansions aren't "mathematical" in your mind.
And on this inspired bit of nonsense: "in ZFC set theory you can easily prove that the set of all functions on natural numbers is uncountably infinite. However, the fact that ZFC is a formal system tells us that we can count every function on natural numbers that can be proven to exist in ZFC." Um, except in the previous sentence you asserted a proof of the existence of an uncountable set of functions on natural numbers. Then in the next sentence, you say that set is countable. It seems that you have assumed that every function on natural numbers requires a specific existence proof. If that were true, then that last sentence would make sense. However, the actual reality is that it only takes one existence proof to show an uncountable set of functions on the natural numbers, that they're out there but can't be found, and that you're dumb.
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You seem to be under the impression that the universe is a grid made of Planck-sized boxes. It isn't. Particles can still be in continuous motion. And molecules are far, far bigger than the Planck distance.
See the other poster who replied to this thread, who defined "quantam".
Wrongo! The Planck distance is the smallest measure that has any meaning.
A quantam leap is an instantaneous leap, which is presumably the meaning used by marketers.
"Then again, we would need a pendulum which is attracted to solar gravity"
Universal gravitaiton? Hello? This is EVERY PENDULUM THAT EVER EXISTED.
What moron modded that insightful?
These posts are all incorrect.
A simple google search woudl reveal that the grandparent poster had simply picked a bad source, and that all other sources agree the Economist's description of the Allais effect is correct.
The parent post apparently did not bother to do enough thinking to realize that increased gravity on earth would slow down sattelites receeding from it.
Ignorance speaks! RGB is a basis set only if you allow negative values of color. What does negative red look like? (Hint: it isn't green)
The Bach family was pretty good at passing on their genius, numbering 70 musicians over 7 generations, and J.S. himself had 20 babies... however, Schubert's evolutionary instincts gave him syphillis...
J. C. Bach a 'memorable' composer? Probably 1 person in 1000 has heard his music.
And Franz Liszt? You're about a century off, buddy.
The article gets worse... it names Shigeru Miyamoto as the composer of the Mario Bros. tunes, implies the Mac was released in 1995... it goes on and on...
Peoplesoft? Oracle? What are those?
By the way, I think you meant FTC
Actually, it would be great to have a port of Mario 64 that could use the touch-screen thing for the camera, instead of those stupid yellow buttons.
PCI is 33Mhz, not 33 MB/sec. 33 X 32-bit-bus = 133 MB/sec. PCI-X goes up to 133 Mhz and 64-bit, so that's 800 MB/sec.
It bothers me. Sports uniforms, for instance, are absurdly expensive. The local high school pays $1000+ EACH for cheerleading uniforms. The same can be said for textbooks and senior pictures. As for chalk, I haven't seen chalk become infected by viruses, or spyware, or chalk with Yahoo toolbar installed on it by clueless students, or chalk be attacked by worms that shut down parts of the Internet via the sheer amount of traffic they generate.
Yeah, and the same Jews who faked the Holocaust also faked the moon landing, right? No doubt related to the people who genetically engineered AIDS in 1959.
But aren't all english-speakers american? Whoops.
Metroid Prime was developed by Retro Studios, an American company. You're right that MGS is a Konami game, though. But I was thinking of the Gamecube version, which was developed by Silicon Knights, a Canadian company.
This reminds me of the scene in Ace Ventura, where Jim Carrey talks out of his ass.
Zelda was a Japanese game. Or have you forgotten that Nintendo is a Japanese company?
Have you ever heard of Metal Gear Solid? How about Metroid Prime? Or Grand Theft Auto and its sequels? All American games, huge successes in the American market.
"What kind of jobs, Mr. Gates? Point-of-sale software programming jobs seems to be the only possibility--a mere fraction of programming jobs out there--which just happens to be the business that you are in." This is actually SCO's market, isn't it? Hmm.
32768? I can only count to 32767!
The second reply in the thread gets "redundant," and an apology from the parent poster gets modded "offtopic". Responsible mods don't do this, but responsible mods don't give fools karma in the first place.
No, I won't pardon your ignorance, because you didn't RTFA.
If you want to know how it's a practical solution, maybe you could read the article. Or you don't even need to do that--just look at the picture of four monitors around one computer.
You can think an adjective.
"Think Different" means that you're thinking about something different. "Think Differently" means that you're thinking in a different manner.
I like this sentence: "She felt bad because he felt badly"
Vector processing. SSE for Intel and AMD, AltiVec for the G5, and 3DNow for AMD all are instruction sets that allow one to manipulate vectors of 4 floats or 2 doubles (or other assortments) as though they are one operand.
You got it wrong. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering. (specifically, people suffering when they watch that movie)
I've always been an SMTP person. Or is it HTTP?
So if it can't be manifested in physical reality, it can't exist in mathematics? Writing things down isn't "manifesting" something. Writing isn't intrinsically physical. It's graphite marks on a piece of paper. It has meaning in our heads. Countable sets can't be written down in terms of elements either, you fool. Mathematics is an abstraction of physical reality. Not the other way around. Math can do whatever the hell it wants. IMO the only idea that can be manifested in physical reality is "one particle". And maybe not even that. "Two particles" is a result of the human abstraction of grouping things into sets with cardanality. "An atom" is a similar grouping with special properties. A "mathematical thing" is a human idealization. Deal with it. There is no such thing as physical mathematics. What's next? Imaginary numbers aren't "mathematical things"? Negative numbers aren't "mathematical things?" Real numbers aren't "mathematical things"? Fractions? Is any number smaller than Planck's constant "a mathematical thing"? Because it's not a part of physical reality! What about calculus? Can you observe a differential? Whoops, you can't! That must not be a "mathematical thing!" Goodbye, modern engeneering.
What a bizzare and incomprehensible rant. You lack the imagination to understand an uncountable set, therefore, they're meaningless?
Here's a task for you: explain how an uncountable set, say, the set of all non-finite strings of decimal digits, is not, as you claim, well-defined.
But, you say, a binary string is meaningless. "A number that cannot be written down or computed to a sufficient decimal expansion" is meaningless. So pi is meaningless, and e. Why are they meaningless? Because you say so. Why are they not mathematical? Because infinite things cannot possibly be mathematical, right?
The weirdest thing is that you seem to have no problem with an infinite decimal string--it is, after all, a countable N-tuple--but an infinite decimal string is not allowed to represent a number, since infinite decimal expansions aren't "mathematical" in your mind.
And on this inspired bit of nonsense:
"in ZFC set theory you can easily prove that the set of all functions on natural numbers is uncountably infinite. However, the fact that ZFC is a formal system tells us that we can count every function on natural numbers that can be proven to exist in ZFC."
Um, except in the previous sentence you asserted a proof of the existence of an uncountable set of functions on natural numbers. Then in the next sentence, you say that set is countable.
It seems that you have assumed that every function on natural numbers requires a specific existence proof. If that were true, then that last sentence would make sense. However, the actual reality is that it only takes one existence proof to show an uncountable set of functions on the natural numbers, that they're out there but can't be found, and that you're dumb.
I can go on and on...