I hope this doesn't surprise anyone. After all, Corporations are pretty much running everything now. And since Corporations are about making as much profit as possible for the shareholders, cutting out stuff like buying supplies for your employees, charging for paper sacks shouldn't be coming as a surprise at all.
I remember working in nice restaurants that made you supply your own cook uniform, and it had to be clean every day. Now most restaurants supplied them for you, but I guess the corporation ran ones wouldn't bare the expense.
When will it stop? Will we balk at bringing our own plates & utensils to restaurants? Maybe it's when you have to supply your own computer for a job?
Well, a crystal is a repeating arrangement in space where each atom occurs in certain regular positions in the crystal structure. If you look along any direction in the crystal the crystal lattice is repeating and predictable. A time crystal is the same idea but it is repeating in the direction of time. For instance any shape that changes but repeats that same pattern over time in a regular and ordered way would be a time crystal.
I'm sure this is a simplification. For instance, I suspect a simple mechanical device (such as a clock) wouldn't constitute a time crystal any more than a tank full of loose balls would constitute a spacial crystal. In fact, I suspect the time crystal would need to be self organising in the same way that a spacial crystal self organises. In other words, the time crystal cycle is self perpetuating, hence the link to perpetual motion and the rather uncomfortable feeling that something might not be correct in the theory. In a spacial crystal it is the charges in the atoms and ionic bonds that self organise the crystal. For a time crystal (and I'm speculating here since I haven't read the arXiv article), maybe the transfer of energy or spin around the crystal would self organise the time crystal.
Okay, I'm understanding what you are saying. Guess it just seems weird because it would seem time isn't solid, but what the article is suggesting that it is.
I'll admit I'm not the brightest of people (public school education), but I can't figure exactly what this has to do with time. Any chance of you higher educated science folks want to explain this a bit better?
You don't even have to read TFA, the excerpt in the post is enough:
"[...] move in a repeating pattern, like minute hands rounding clocks [...]"
I'll admit I'm not the brightest of people (public school education), but I can't figure exactly what this has to do with time. Any chance of you higher educated science folks want to explain this a bit better?
Time is defined as the direction in which entropy increases (energy is expended to do something). If this crystal is not expending energy, it is stuck in time. Or something like that.
I'll admit I'm not the brightest of people (public school education), but I can't figure exactly what this has to do with time. Any chance of you higher educated science folks want to explain this a bit better?
Is they hop around the world with almost no downtime at all. Even the best sites that we PAY for can barely manage to do simple upgrades and changes and say the same..
The only thing that moved, is where it's domain name is at. the servers are in the "cloud" they don't need to move, and if they did, they can do it no problem. But all this is just about domain name changes.
does it matter that much if you play on a 4k or 2k screen? the games graphics are anyway not distinguishing between single pixels and the textures are not optimised for 4k. if you would play 2k side by side to 4k (now keeping aside the GPU power), would you realise the difference? 4k makes significant difference for photography and video!
What does that matter when the game devs program for the consoles and port it to the PC? Sure, maybe on the PC you can go a bit higher resolution, but crappy textures still look like crappy textures.
Let's worship the self, the icon of western consumerism. "I want" "I want" "I want"... music to the ears of the capitalists destroying our society, coming from the spoiled progressives feeding them.
Oh by the way, the dirty capitalists want your money. It doesn't benefit them to provide you the oldest or least desired. You're the customer most likely to leave them for a competing service. They're smarter than you.
Very wrong.
First the person was talking about the quality of the items, and was pretty sure he wouldn't get them as he liked them by delivery. And I agree with his statement it does benefit those grocery stores to give the old items away first. While my background is more restaurant work, my family has a big history of Grocery Store work. (Family owned one for a few decades). First in, First out. That is the motto. And if you get be able to sell stuff sight unseen, then all the better to give the passed over stuff to. You don't make any money if you can't sell all the product. There are a few exceptions, but they don't really matter in this convo.
Now my experience is in restaurants, which isn't much different. As long as you don't think the person will get sick from eating it, you use it. Fish smell bad? Put some lemon juice on it. Meat smelling a little sour? Rinse it off, it's still good.
Capitalist want to make as much money as they can, with as little cost to them as possible, using other peoples money. They do not care if you are happy, after all, look at Wall Street. Look at the big Bank scandal. The capitalist that were responsible got big bonuses while normal people lost their houses...
If you go there by foot or by bike, it means you cannot buy much. Therefore you need to go much more often and that you'll rarely buy any heavy goods.
What exactly is this "heavy goods" i can buy at the supermarket, that I need to drive it home?
We are talking a supermarket here, not Costco or a wholesale place.
I live about 7 blocks from a supermarket, all up hill, steep. I get exercise walking to the store, and if I have to do it every day, or every other day, then it's only that much better for me. And I'm not polluting while I do it, either.
Sure, sometimes I don't get all I want to grab, because it's more then I want to carry home, but that is very, very rare and easily fixed by a trip the next day.
This looks like a module for apache that, while sinister and clever, must be installed like any other module. Presumable, unless I'm missing something, this requires root access. If this so called "back door" (debatable) is on a system where it shouldn't be there is a bigger question on how was access to install it obtained it the first place.
Yes, sort of confusing. What I gained from the various articles is that by visiting a malicious webpage on a compromised server, it will try to install the backdoor thru whatever methods it has. What they aren't that specific on is how they manage to replace the apache executable. But since it seems there isn't a standard way to tell if apache is infected, that is sort of stupid.
When they make a unit that requires very little, other then inputting what you want printed and putting materials in it, then it probably won't get that widespread adoption that the big corporations think is necessary to make a profit.
And if you all you can think of as uses for it is to make legos and toys, then I'm sorry for you. I can think of hundreds of useful things it can print for around the home. And even more for the home hobbyist.
I also like how gamers will yell until they are blue in the face about second hand game sales and how important they are.
And then they will turn around and talk about how "Steam gets it right", conveniently forgetting it was the first place that forbid second-hand game sales.
I'm going to point out there isn't really a use PC game market. But there is a big used console game market. So this is apple to oranges.
Steam basically requires an internet connection. Offline mode exists, but you need to switch it over while you have a connection, so its useless if you go offline suddenly.
I have no reason to believe that the steambox will be any different.
Not true at all. I've had my internet get disconnected and loaded up some of my steam games (half-life 2) no problem.
.... But your alternative is to maintain a ridiculous and expensive beast of a PC where the video card alone costs more than a console.
...
I'm going to point out now that a $250 video card is way more powerful then any console you can buy today. WiiU, Xbox 360, and of course, the PS3.
It might be the same price as those consoles, but way way more powerful then any of them.
And there's the thing. Because we are going to get 2 new consoles with updated hardware, that $250 graphic card will let you play those new games coming out, at decent frame rates. And guess what? that $250 is cheaper then the new consoles.
We legalized weed in Washington State. Now we need more money? Start selling it.
Granted I have a great dealer and I'd probably never buy any weed from you, but I'm pretty sure there is a ton of people who would. Get selling bitches!
Until we have a big ass disaster because of space debris, no one will do anything except talk about it.
In case no one pays attention to Human history, we do NOT usually do anything until after someone bad has happened, then we run around like chickens with our heads cut off and remove more human rights.
How about we just attach a giant magnet to the back of space craft similar to what you'd see behind the rear or front tires of an RV to pick up road debris before it punctures the tires.
Why is it always up to Europe to clean up the rest of the world's mess?
Because we're smarter and more capable than the rest of the world, that's why! So the duty naturally falls to us. We're also very humble about it and leave all the self-congratulation to Americans. What would they do without us?
Well, we did save you from being German, maybe next time we'll sit that one out?
Why is it always up to Europe to clean up the rest of the world's mess?
Both world wars where a European mess. Not sure about WWI (public school education, they didn't teach us much), but WWII, we (the USA) cleaned up Europe's mess and it turned us into dickwads/bullies towards the world.
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Sure, it was rather poor form to have started on this project, even as a joke, but it seems they've fessed up and handled it well.
No they didn't.
for example he said it was going to a S14 Pot: http://play.esea.net/index.php?s=forums&d=topic&id=492152
Yet now it's supposedly going to charity.
I bet it goes into the corporations or the CEO's pocket.
Word, now I can get some real feedback when I play my favorite killing simulator, I mean, my favorite First Person Shooter.
I hope this doesn't surprise anyone. After all, Corporations are pretty much running everything now. And since Corporations are about making as much profit as possible for the shareholders, cutting out stuff like buying supplies for your employees, charging for paper sacks shouldn't be coming as a surprise at all.
I remember working in nice restaurants that made you supply your own cook uniform, and it had to be clean every day. Now most restaurants supplied them for you, but I guess the corporation ran ones wouldn't bare the expense.
When will it stop? Will we balk at bringing our own plates & utensils to restaurants? Maybe it's when you have to supply your own computer for a job?
Well, a crystal is a repeating arrangement in space where each atom occurs in certain regular positions in the crystal structure. If you look along any direction in the crystal the crystal lattice is repeating and predictable. A time crystal is the same idea but it is repeating in the direction of time. For instance any shape that changes but repeats that same pattern over time in a regular and ordered way would be a time crystal.
I'm sure this is a simplification. For instance, I suspect a simple mechanical device (such as a clock) wouldn't constitute a time crystal any more than a tank full of loose balls would constitute a spacial crystal. In fact, I suspect the time crystal would need to be self organising in the same way that a spacial crystal self organises. In other words, the time crystal cycle is self perpetuating, hence the link to perpetual motion and the rather uncomfortable feeling that something might not be correct in the theory. In a spacial crystal it is the charges in the atoms and ionic bonds that self organise the crystal. For a time crystal (and I'm speculating here since I haven't read the arXiv article), maybe the transfer of energy or spin around the crystal would self organise the time crystal.
Okay, I'm understanding what you are saying. Guess it just seems weird because it would seem time isn't solid, but what the article is suggesting that it is.
I'll admit I'm not the brightest of people (public school education), but I can't figure exactly what this has to do with time. Any chance of you higher educated science folks want to explain this a bit better?
You don't even have to read TFA, the excerpt in the post is enough:
"[...] move in a repeating pattern, like minute hands rounding clocks [...]"
Clock, time. Get the connection?
You don't understand it either.
I'll admit I'm not the brightest of people (public school education), but I can't figure exactly what this has to do with time. Any chance of you higher educated science folks want to explain this a bit better?
Time is defined as the direction in which entropy increases (energy is expended to do something). If this crystal is not expending energy, it is stuck in time. Or something like that.
Except that as you are observing it, time passes.
I'll admit I'm not the brightest of people (public school education), but I can't figure exactly what this has to do with time. Any chance of you higher educated science folks want to explain this a bit better?
Is they hop around the world with almost no downtime at all.
Even the best sites that we PAY for can barely manage to do simple upgrades and changes and say the same..
The only thing that moved, is where it's domain name is at. the servers are in the "cloud" they don't need to move, and if they did, they can do it no problem. But all this is just about domain name changes.
does it matter that much if you play on a 4k or 2k screen? the games graphics are anyway not distinguishing between single pixels and the textures are not optimised for 4k. if you would play 2k side by side to 4k (now keeping aside the GPU power), would you realise the difference? 4k makes significant difference for photography and video!
What does that matter when the game devs program for the consoles and port it to the PC? Sure, maybe on the PC you can go a bit higher resolution, but crappy textures still look like crappy textures.
Let's worship the self, the icon of western consumerism. "I want" "I want" "I want" ... music to the ears of the capitalists destroying our society, coming from the spoiled progressives feeding them.
Oh by the way, the dirty capitalists want your money. It doesn't benefit them to provide you the oldest or least desired. You're the customer most likely to leave them for a competing service. They're smarter than you.
Very wrong.
First the person was talking about the quality of the items, and was pretty sure he wouldn't get them as he liked them by delivery. And I agree with his statement it does benefit those grocery stores to give the old items away first. While my background is more restaurant work, my family has a big history of Grocery Store work. (Family owned one for a few decades). First in, First out. That is the motto. And if you get be able to sell stuff sight unseen, then all the better to give the passed over stuff to. You don't make any money if you can't sell all the product. There are a few exceptions, but they don't really matter in this convo.
Now my experience is in restaurants, which isn't much different. As long as you don't think the person will get sick from eating it, you use it. Fish smell bad? Put some lemon juice on it. Meat smelling a little sour? Rinse it off, it's still good.
Capitalist want to make as much money as they can, with as little cost to them as possible, using other peoples money. They do not care if you are happy, after all, look at Wall Street. Look at the big Bank scandal. The capitalist that were responsible got big bonuses while normal people lost their houses...
If you go there by foot or by bike, it means you cannot buy much.
Therefore you need to go much more often and that you'll rarely buy any heavy goods.
What exactly is this "heavy goods" i can buy at the supermarket, that I need to drive it home?
We are talking a supermarket here, not Costco or a wholesale place.
I live about 7 blocks from a supermarket, all up hill, steep. I get exercise walking to the store, and if I have to do it every day, or every other day, then it's only that much better for me. And I'm not polluting while I do it, either.
Sure, sometimes I don't get all I want to grab, because it's more then I want to carry home, but that is very, very rare and easily fixed by a trip the next day.
Corporations rarely give to the public domain (look at Disney), yet we are allowing them to take what they want from it? Seriously?
Honestly, I think corporations shouldn't be allowed to use the public domain. Non Profit Companies should be allowed to.
Or here's a better idea, put copyright back to reasonable times (14 years) and then it can be free game for anyone or corporation.
It started as a Chess program, then became 2415 times smarter since then, controlled a network system, then was going to control the humans.
funny, now i realize that the MCP was a sort of DRM, defeated by hackers to make the system free!
Okay, have to watch Tron again now...
This looks like a module for apache that, while sinister and clever, must be installed like any other module. Presumable, unless I'm missing something, this requires root access. If this so called "back door" (debatable) is on a system where it shouldn't be there is a bigger question on how was access to install it obtained it the first place.
Yes, sort of confusing. What I gained from the various articles is that by visiting a malicious webpage on a compromised server, it will try to install the backdoor thru whatever methods it has. What they aren't that specific on is how they manage to replace the apache executable. But since it seems there isn't a standard way to tell if apache is infected, that is sort of stupid.
But other then that, it sounds a bit clever.
When they make a unit that requires very little, other then inputting what you want printed and putting materials in it, then it probably won't get that widespread adoption that the big corporations think is necessary to make a profit.
And if you all you can think of as uses for it is to make legos and toys, then I'm sorry for you. I can think of hundreds of useful things it can print for around the home. And even more for the home hobbyist.
And a controller is fine for FPS games. I can play Halo as easily as I can play BF3 on the PC with a mouse and keyboard.
You must be the worse PC BF3 player around then.
I also like how gamers will yell until they are blue in the face about second hand game sales and how important they are.
And then they will turn around and talk about how "Steam gets it right", conveniently forgetting it was the first place that forbid second-hand game sales.
I'm going to point out there isn't really a use PC game market. But there is a big used console game market. So this is apple to oranges.
Steam basically requires an internet connection. Offline mode exists, but you need to switch it over while you have a connection, so its useless if you go offline suddenly.
I have no reason to believe that the steambox will be any different.
Not true at all. I've had my internet get disconnected and loaded up some of my steam games (half-life 2) no problem.
.... But your alternative is to maintain a ridiculous and expensive beast of a PC where the video card alone costs more than a console.
...
I'm going to point out now that a $250 video card is way more powerful then any console you can buy today. WiiU, Xbox 360, and of course, the PS3.
It might be the same price as those consoles, but way way more powerful then any of them.
And there's the thing. Because we are going to get 2 new consoles with updated hardware, that $250 graphic card will let you play those new games coming out, at decent frame rates. And guess what? that $250 is cheaper then the new consoles.
Microsoft has denied that Xbox 720 will be "always on". These articles are just spreading FUD.
Actually they haven't at all. They have never said, "The new Xbox will not require an internet connection to play games".
You might believe that they won't, but most of us smart consumers, know exactly what they plan on doing.
Come May 21st, when they do their big "unveil" you will find, that the new xbox will require a constant internet connection to use the device.
We legalized weed in Washington State. Now we need more money? Start selling it.
Granted I have a great dealer and I'd probably never buy any weed from you, but I'm pretty sure there is a ton of people who would. Get selling bitches!
Until we have a big ass disaster because of space debris, no one will do anything except talk about it.
In case no one pays attention to Human history, we do NOT usually do anything until after someone bad has happened, then we run around like chickens with our heads cut off and remove more human rights.
How about we just attach a giant magnet to the back of space craft similar to what you'd see behind the rear or front tires of an RV to pick up road debris before it punctures the tires.
Citation: http://www.google.com/patents/US3956111
Going to point out if you put magnets behind the wheels, you aren't going to stop it from being punctured.
Why is it always up to Europe to clean up the rest of the world's mess?
Because we're smarter and more capable than the rest of the world, that's why! So the duty naturally falls to us. We're also very humble about it and leave all the self-congratulation to Americans. What would they do without us?
Well, we did save you from being German, maybe next time we'll sit that one out?
Why is it always up to Europe to clean up the rest of the world's mess?
Both world wars where a European mess. Not sure about WWI (public school education, they didn't teach us much), but WWII, we (the USA) cleaned up Europe's mess and it turned us into dickwads/bullies towards the world.