It's probably safe to assume that any provider that stores your messages beyond what's required (purging from servers immediately post delivery, or not saving them in the first place) for proper functioning of the service, is a lousy choice for rioters and looters.
If these idiots had any sense, they'd send coded messages or use a different means of communication. It's not RIM's problem really. I for one, am against corporates spying and monitoring their people etc, but I have faith in my theory that people who are like minded as i am about privacy, would boycott companies and enterprises that embrace such ideologies.
For what it's worth, BBM ain't the real issue here. They never said they kept messages private, or that they are saved and stored for possible future retreival. In fact, it says so in their contracts! I find it hard to believe in mob stupidity.. All I can say really, is "What on Earth were those idiots thinking!?"
If there were enough antiprotons out there to be useful as a fuel-source, any probes sent through would have come out the other side shredded to the chips. Or am I still theorizing shit?
The problem is.. They say if you travel faster than light, time stops, and then starts rolling back on itself.. You'll be a time traveler and you'd be able to go into the past. Apparently, if you could catch that carrot, you could also go back in time, kill yourself as a kid and find yourself laughing paradoxically at the humor of it all.
My confusion is about how time could possibly roll back. It has no properties, except those we give it. Time does not travel... We just take time to travel.
The words you use sound ominously potent and are difficult for me to understand. Is there a book or source you could refer me to that would help me better understand simultaneity, invariance, closed loops etc.. Something closer to layman speak perhaps? I tried Wikipedia, but more than clearing things up, it's tossing my brain into a spaghetti wok.:(
..what bugs me, is the massive amount of inertia that's got people believing that Light is the fastest thing that there is out there. There's a speed 'C' and nothing can travel faster or it will go back in time. Light can travel that fast, but never any faster. Never ever! I'll probably never be able to explain why exactly it is that this frustrates me, but I'll try anyway.
First off, why does anything travelling faster _have_ to go back in time? Time is merely a concept that we humans have come up with in order to measure duration. Establishing for ourselves, causality and basically, placing eggs before chickens. However, our descriptions of Time are merely superficial. x seconds have passed.. blah blah. But when we get down to it, we have absolutely no way to know what time is. Aside from the basic fact that time is an "idea" that separates events, it is nothing else. Essentially though, it is a _concept_ and as such, has no other value. What is it made up of? Can it be modified or turned into something else? Can you break it up into its component pieces? (I don't mean breaking hours into minutes, and seconds etc. I mean as an entity or something truly physical in nature.) We can't even observe it. We can merely mark its passage by the sequencing of events that happen with its passage.
An effect cannot happen before its cause. That's understandable. However, just exceeding a certain velocity will not cause time to roll back. Or for that matter, to slow down. Ones _perception_ of time might be altered, but time itself does not change. It's all relative.
If you travel faster than light away from an object, your eyes will definitely see events happening in reverse. But that is because you are seeing light that has left the object that it reflected off of earlier and earlier due to the fact that you are overtaking photons as you zip ever onward. Meanwhile, an object you happen to be travelling toward, will have the opposite effect for exactly the same reason, but in reverse. Events occurring at the object will be perceived as happening faster than they actually are. However, Time itself has not changed. Your perception of it, as an observer inside a system might be different, but Time has not changed, gone backward nor forward. Time IS as Time HAS always been. A Concept.
Much like Thunder after Lightening.. We know the thunder was caused at almost the same time that the lightening was created. However, we hear it much later. When a train goes past us, we experience the Doppler effect. To a Blind man, It would seem as if the thunder was all there was and that it was caused at the moment that he hears it. He would have no cause to imagine that it was created at a time before it reaches his ears. It's the same with us and how we perceive photons of light. If we could perceive stuff that moved much faster than photons too, we would measure time using that as one of our indicators of passing events. As humans, we embrace most anything that seems convenient. Not always, but most often anyway. Why are we talking of time moving backward in the first place?
If someone can show me where it is that I'm going wrong in my understanding of this, I'd love to hear your thoughts. This has bothered me for a long time, and I know that I come off sounding silly to most of you who actually understand what I wish I could. However, I'd like to understand what you do, so.. Help?:)
Born and brought up in India.. I suppose with time, some interesting things rub off on you while you're growing up.:D Even though I'm Indian by birth, I am considered half-outcast here since I have trouble speaking most of the native tongues. I'm fairly good with Hindi, but that's the pure form of the language. I'm not very comfortable speaking the local dialects (which btw, are many!), enough to fit in.
Hindi is an evolved form of Sanskritized Khari-boli. As a result, when spoken in its true form, it is very hard to cause misinterpretation of sentences.
It evolved with the Indo-Aryan languages, or in come cases, Indic. However, there is a fairly good chance that transliteration of sentences from European and African tongues end up conveying a different meaning from what was intended. Translators generally require to be proficient in recognizing contextual nuances in European tongues to correctly translate the meaning into Hindi.
However, when translating from Hindi to English, a direct transliteration rarely goes haywire.:)
No, it does not. Translated to Hindi, the words get shuffled up. Roughly, it would turn into something more like "Mumbai's attacked victims online collaboration from helped".:-D It sounds kinda creepy in english, but the nuances of Hindi structure and phraseology would leave a reader/listener with absolutely no doubt as to the intended meaning.:)
English is indeed a funny language, but I am pretty sure most languages share similar quirks. As indeed, does Hindi itself. This is just one example that can be sampled into Hindi without the loss of intended meaning. However, it is a semantically lucky sentence and translates well.
IMHO, it's got to do with cultural stereotyping. Women prefer to give programming and computer related jobs a wide berth, not because they are incapable of excelling at it, but because that's how they've been brought up to think.
Having been in the industry for almost a decade now, and I've known a lot of female programmers. It's not that they exist, but that their friends (almost always female) tend to look down upon them and treat them like they're not womanly because they're geeks.
It's sad, but that just seems to be the way the cookie crumbles. Crab philosophy. When a woman makes her path into previously un-feminine areas, the rest of the women look at her like she's gone over to the other side..
It pisses me off that some brain comes up with the theory that women are not catered to in computer games, while that same brain can't fathom the fact that there simply are'nt enough female game-programmers out there to actually 'know' what a woman wants and then, to ensure that such games are released. It's not like women are shunned from the gaming industry. Sure it's male dominated, but only because males in general, love the industry more than women seem to.
is that a lot of people seem to think a university chopping off a specific course means the end of the world.
The fact of life is that people in general don't take a course because it's offered, but because that's the course they want to do. If WWU does not offer a course, they'll go elsewhere. It's obvious from my understanding of the situation, that there just are'nt enough takers for WWU's IT course to make it profitable. If that's the case, then WWU is left with only two choices. Either stop offering the course, or make it more desirable for students. Either way, the decision seems to have been made, whatever the details behind the said decision may be.
What's the big deal either way? If someone really wants an IT certificate from WWU and only WWU, I see their problem. But if they just want a certificate in IT, they'll go elsewhere. Right?
I thought it was really far-fetched to think Osama would be savvy enough to even dream of using a computer, let alone process information from one. Still, assuming that he did, and the stories are true, I'm quite sure we'd all like to have a look at the stuff he had on it.
Anyone seeding an Osama Torrent? or do we have to wait till they get around to processing a request for Right To Information?
There's a possibility that deposits on the lens cannot be burned off. Just like it's hard to re-burn the ash that gets flicked off the end of your cigarette.:)
Which means, any oils or soot that happens to settle on the lens will rapidly reduce the efficiency of the laser. Considering an average internal combustion engine requires about a dozen controlled explosions a second, and over a million times in a days worth of driving, I'd imagine that there's a very good chance that something will end up smearing the lens of the laser.
I'm sure they can't release this to the market without first solving this problem. I for one would be interested to find out how that's done!
I'm not trying to be an authority on anything, least of all communications and journalism. Was making a point, see!:) They can manage if for themselves instead of for me. Hey, I'm a nobody!
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We corrupted them. Duh! :-D Or at least I like the idea.
It's plain as sin! Jellyfish Eggs of course!
It's probably safe to assume that any provider that stores your messages beyond what's required (purging from servers immediately post delivery, or not saving them in the first place) for proper functioning of the service, is a lousy choice for rioters and looters.
If these idiots had any sense, they'd send coded messages or use a different means of communication. It's not RIM's problem really. I for one, am against corporates spying and monitoring their people etc, but I have faith in my theory that people who are like minded as i am about privacy, would boycott companies and enterprises that embrace such ideologies.
For what it's worth, BBM ain't the real issue here. They never said they kept messages private, or that they are saved and stored for possible future retreival. In fact, it says so in their contracts! I find it hard to believe in mob stupidity.. All I can say really, is "What on Earth were those idiots thinking!?"
If there were enough antiprotons out there to be useful as a fuel-source, any probes sent through would have come out the other side shredded to the chips. Or am I still theorizing shit?
I for one would welcome our Jellyfish Overlords!
*salutes*
The problem is.. They say if you travel faster than light, time stops, and then starts rolling back on itself.. You'll be a time traveler and you'd be able to go into the past. Apparently, if you could catch that carrot, you could also go back in time, kill yourself as a kid and find yourself laughing paradoxically at the humor of it all.
My confusion is about how time could possibly roll back. It has no properties, except those we give it. Time does not travel... We just take time to travel.
a/b/g/n
The words you use sound ominously potent and are difficult for me to understand. Is there a book or source you could refer me to that would help me better understand simultaneity, invariance, closed loops etc.. Something closer to layman speak perhaps? I tried Wikipedia, but more than clearing things up, it's tossing my brain into a spaghetti wok. :(
..what bugs me, is the massive amount of inertia that's got people believing that Light is the fastest thing that there is out there. There's a speed 'C' and nothing can travel faster or it will go back in time. Light can travel that fast, but never any faster. Never ever! I'll probably never be able to explain why exactly it is that this frustrates me, but I'll try anyway.
First off, why does anything travelling faster _have_ to go back in time? Time is merely a concept that we humans have come up with in order to measure duration. Establishing for ourselves, causality and basically, placing eggs before chickens. However, our descriptions of Time are merely superficial. x seconds have passed.. blah blah. But when we get down to it, we have absolutely no way to know what time is. Aside from the basic fact that time is an "idea" that separates events, it is nothing else. Essentially though, it is a _concept_ and as such, has no other value. What is it made up of? Can it be modified or turned into something else? Can you break it up into its component pieces? (I don't mean breaking hours into minutes, and seconds etc. I mean as an entity or something truly physical in nature.) We can't even observe it. We can merely mark its passage by the sequencing of events that happen with its passage.
An effect cannot happen before its cause. That's understandable. However, just exceeding a certain velocity will not cause time to roll back. Or for that matter, to slow down. Ones _perception_ of time might be altered, but time itself does not change. It's all relative.
If you travel faster than light away from an object, your eyes will definitely see events happening in reverse. But that is because you are seeing light that has left the object that it reflected off of earlier and earlier due to the fact that you are overtaking photons as you zip ever onward. Meanwhile, an object you happen to be travelling toward, will have the opposite effect for exactly the same reason, but in reverse. Events occurring at the object will be perceived as happening faster than they actually are. However, Time itself has not changed. Your perception of it, as an observer inside a system might be different, but Time has not changed, gone backward nor forward. Time IS as Time HAS always been. A Concept.
Much like Thunder after Lightening.. We know the thunder was caused at almost the same time that the lightening was created. However, we hear it much later. When a train goes past us, we experience the Doppler effect. To a Blind man, It would seem as if the thunder was all there was and that it was caused at the moment that he hears it. He would have no cause to imagine that it was created at a time before it reaches his ears. It's the same with us and how we perceive photons of light. If we could perceive stuff that moved much faster than photons too, we would measure time using that as one of our indicators of passing events. As humans, we embrace most anything that seems convenient. Not always, but most often anyway. Why are we talking of time moving backward in the first place?
If someone can show me where it is that I'm going wrong in my understanding of this, I'd love to hear your thoughts. This has bothered me for a long time, and I know that I come off sounding silly to most of you who actually understand what I wish I could. However, I'd like to understand what you do, so.. Help? :)
Born and brought up in India.. I suppose with time, some interesting things rub off on you while you're growing up. :D Even though I'm Indian by birth, I am considered half-outcast here since I have trouble speaking most of the native tongues. I'm fairly good with Hindi, but that's the pure form of the language. I'm not very comfortable speaking the local dialects (which btw, are many!), enough to fit in.
Hindi is an evolved form of Sanskritized Khari-boli. As a result, when spoken in its true form, it is very hard to cause misinterpretation of sentences. It evolved with the Indo-Aryan languages, or in come cases, Indic. However, there is a fairly good chance that transliteration of sentences from European and African tongues end up conveying a different meaning from what was intended. Translators generally require to be proficient in recognizing contextual nuances in European tongues to correctly translate the meaning into Hindi. However, when translating from Hindi to English, a direct transliteration rarely goes haywire. :)
No, it does not. Translated to Hindi, the words get shuffled up. Roughly, it would turn into something more like "Mumbai's attacked victims online collaboration from helped". :-D It sounds kinda creepy in english, but the nuances of Hindi structure and phraseology would leave a reader/listener with absolutely no doubt as to the intended meaning. :)
English is indeed a funny language, but I am pretty sure most languages share similar quirks. As indeed, does Hindi itself. This is just one example that can be sampled into Hindi without the loss of intended meaning. However, it is a semantically lucky sentence and translates well.
IMHO, it's got to do with cultural stereotyping. Women prefer to give programming and computer related jobs a wide berth, not because they are incapable of excelling at it, but because that's how they've been brought up to think. Having been in the industry for almost a decade now, and I've known a lot of female programmers. It's not that they exist, but that their friends (almost always female) tend to look down upon them and treat them like they're not womanly because they're geeks. It's sad, but that just seems to be the way the cookie crumbles. Crab philosophy. When a woman makes her path into previously un-feminine areas, the rest of the women look at her like she's gone over to the other side..
It pisses me off that some brain comes up with the theory that women are not catered to in computer games, while that same brain can't fathom the fact that there simply are'nt enough female game-programmers out there to actually 'know' what a woman wants and then, to ensure that such games are released. It's not like women are shunned from the gaming industry. Sure it's male dominated, but only because males in general, love the industry more than women seem to.
That robot looks so much like a girl, for a moment there, I had trouble believing you were not putting me on. :P
Since so many niggers have Sickle Cell Anemia and are so averse to working real jobs, this invention could kill two birds with one stone.
All we have to do now is round up all the darkies and out welfare and energy problems will finally be fixed.
Finally, a job other than infantry soldier that niggers are well suited for.
To say something like that and do so anonymously? It's hard to believe someone dumb enough to say that had the brains to post as AC. :|
is that a lot of people seem to think a university chopping off a specific course means the end of the world. The fact of life is that people in general don't take a course because it's offered, but because that's the course they want to do. If WWU does not offer a course, they'll go elsewhere. It's obvious from my understanding of the situation, that there just are'nt enough takers for WWU's IT course to make it profitable. If that's the case, then WWU is left with only two choices. Either stop offering the course, or make it more desirable for students. Either way, the decision seems to have been made, whatever the details behind the said decision may be. What's the big deal either way? If someone really wants an IT certificate from WWU and only WWU, I see their problem. But if they just want a certificate in IT, they'll go elsewhere. Right?
I'm seeing Cylon written all over that carton! :-D
I'm waiting for them to come up with a self-assembling drone.. Now _that_ ought to make some news!
I thought it was really far-fetched to think Osama would be savvy enough to even dream of using a computer, let alone process information from one. Still, assuming that he did, and the stories are true, I'm quite sure we'd all like to have a look at the stuff he had on it. Anyone seeding an Osama Torrent? or do we have to wait till they get around to processing a request for Right To Information?
There's a possibility that deposits on the lens cannot be burned off. Just like it's hard to re-burn the ash that gets flicked off the end of your cigarette. :)
Which means, any oils or soot that happens to settle on the lens will rapidly reduce the efficiency of the laser. Considering an average internal combustion engine requires about a dozen controlled explosions a second, and over a million times in a days worth of driving, I'd imagine that there's a very good chance that something will end up smearing the lens of the laser. I'm sure they can't release this to the market without first solving this problem. I for one would be interested to find out how that's done!
Another chapter added to kindergarten physics
Haha! The plot never thickens. It's thick all the way. ;)
I'm not trying to be an authority on anything, least of all communications and journalism. Was making a point, see! :) They can manage if for themselves instead of for me. Hey, I'm a nobody!