That statement is plain stupid. Dirac finished school in 1918. Einstein published the Special Relativity in 1905 and the General Relativity in 1915. Can you back up your statement?! Beside, it is well known that Dirac was a great admirer of General Relativity, considering the Einstein equations the most beautiful in physics. That is the reason Dirac chose GR as a research topic in 1923 as a young student in Cambridge...
The Dirac generation might have had more success in Einstein's project in his old age to unify the fundamental forces in nature. Since Einstein grew up with only gravity and electromagnetism as the fundamental forces, Einstein naturally focused on these two. In modern physics, electromagnetism has been unified with the weak interaction and strong nuclear force, but the problem still remains how to make a theory to include gravity with these three other forces. So, one can hardly blame Einstein for failing where modern physic is still searching for answers.
What I'm wondering is if the Linux coders feel like real schmoes right about now because lots and lots of companies and people are making fortunes off of their work, and all they get is maybe one line in a hidden readme file that nobody will read?
Well, these coders belong to the very same people who make "fortunes" by not having to pay for a Windows or Unix license, and who have at their disposal powerful developing tools for free. More over, if these FOSS developers code is found in products by some of the many successful open source companies, the reason their program has reached so far is because they are standing on the shoulders of their fellow open source coders. FOSS coders know that in a world without OS's like Linux, they would not be paid by microsoft to write the same code. Instead they would just be hackers in a world even more repressed by the MS monopoly.
Beside, who would not want to have a successful open source project on their CV (with a hidden readme file to prove it) when asking for that lucrative programming job?
Experiments themselves are never 'wrong' experiments are merely poorly designed or interpreted.
I agree with you completely.
Maybe the poster tries to say that General Relativity is so well supported by experiments that if frame dragging is not observed the problem is most likely with the experiment itself and not the theory? This is not a good argument against doing an experiment that has not been done before though, even when the theory is "solid".
I would say that a democracy usually ends up with the government and media it "deserves". If the people (i.e. the voters, the buyers or how you classify them) think critically and independently, news media will be carefull not to exaggerate or make claims that it cannot back up, just to be sure not to offend its "customers". On the other hand, if people want gossip and sensation and damn the truth, that is what you will get in most news media. As always, a democracy only works well when its voters take responsibility and educate themselves. The news media has its vital role in any democracy to ask the hard questions to those in power, but if that control role does not sell, then don't expect the media to remember its responsibility.
Of course, with any fact you can put a spin on it but this does not matter as long as the listener is aware of the bias. It is a bit scary when a press baron like Murdoch is considered one of the main reasons Blair won the previous elections, and that the future of the Blair government seems to depend on Murdoch not to tell his UK news papers to go after Blair. Either the British readers of Murdochs papers are happy to vote for the guy picked by Murdoch, or they are ignorant of the bias they are served...
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it is nice to see a software company that actually does innovate and who try to make their products better instead of just more lucrative. Google has been a company that actually seems to care about their costumers needs and who shows that one can make money by delivering innovative solutions.
I am getting tired of the line "big companies have to be evil because they only care about profit". Let the evil companies sell crack to help their bottom line, let me support companies like Google who gives me something in return.
It is funny that the Republicans are using the fact that the Kerry family had a house in France as a campaign issue:). What's next, maybe to claim Kerry is a nazi since he has a German grandfather (who was Jewish)? I guess if you don't have anything to run on, smear the opponent with anything you can find.
Since John Kerry was a volunteer for a war where he killed communists, Kerry can be counted on to deal strongly with communist China. Just don't count on Kerry to sacrifice hundreds of US soldiers lifes when war is unnecessary. He knows what a hell war is.
The first thing you can do is to quit pretending that solution to big government is to elect more politicians who favor big government. If you're planning on voting Democrat or Green, you're part of the problem, because those two parties favor larger and more intrusive government.
I guess it is all that TOC FUD by microsoft that confuses Bill; if you can make the software cost of running Windows disappear in the TOC "analysis", then hardware cost is no challenge to calculate as close to zero.
You cannot deny that Clinton and Bush have very different takes on how to help the economy along.
You cannot deny that the economy did much better during Clinton than during Bush.
First term or not, it is hard to deny that the US economy would have looked very different if the country had continued Clinton's policies than Bush's. For one thing, the huge tax cuts for the rich would not have had happened. If these tax cuts are good or bad, we can discuss, but to say that Bush has had no influence on the current economy is plainly wrong.
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That statement is plain stupid. Dirac finished school in 1918. Einstein published the Special Relativity in 1905 and the General Relativity in 1915. Can you back up your statement?! Beside, it is well known that Dirac was a great admirer of General Relativity, considering the Einstein equations the most beautiful in physics. That is the reason Dirac chose GR as a research topic in 1923 as a young student in Cambridge ...
The Dirac generation might have had more success in Einstein's project in his old age to unify the fundamental forces in nature. Since Einstein grew up with only gravity and electromagnetism as the fundamental forces, Einstein naturally focused on these two. In modern physics, electromagnetism has been unified with the weak interaction and strong nuclear force, but the problem still remains how to make a theory to include gravity with these three other forces. So, one can hardly blame Einstein for failing where modern physic is still searching for answers.
Well, these coders belong to the very same people who make "fortunes" by not having to pay for a Windows or Unix license, and who have at their disposal powerful developing tools for free. More over, if these FOSS developers code is found in products by some of the many successful open source companies, the reason their program has reached so far is because they are standing on the shoulders of their fellow open source coders. FOSS coders know that in a world without OS's like Linux, they would not be paid by microsoft to write the same code. Instead they would just be hackers in a world even more repressed by the MS monopoly.
Beside, who would not want to have a successful open source project on their CV (with a hidden readme file to prove it) when asking for that lucrative programming job?
I agree with you completely.
Maybe the poster tries to say that General Relativity is so well supported by experiments that if frame dragging is not observed the problem is most likely with the experiment itself and not the theory? This is not a good argument against doing an experiment that has not been done before though, even when the theory is "solid".
Of course, with any fact you can put a spin on it but this does not matter as long as the listener is aware of the bias. It is a bit scary when a press baron like Murdoch is considered one of the main reasons Blair won the previous elections, and that the future of the Blair government seems to depend on Murdoch not to tell his UK news papers to go after Blair. Either the British readers of Murdochs papers are happy to vote for the guy picked by Murdoch, or they are ignorant of the bias they are served ...
PBS has some temperature curves that show why scientists worry. Also look at how the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is influenced by the industrial revolution.
I am getting tired of the line "big companies have to be evil because they only care about profit". Let the evil companies sell crack to help their bottom line, let me support companies like Google who gives me something in return.
It is funny that the Republicans are using the fact that the Kerry family had a house in France as a campaign issue :). What's next, maybe to claim Kerry is a nazi since he has a German grandfather (who was Jewish)? I guess if you don't have anything to run on, smear the opponent with anything you can find.
Since John Kerry was a volunteer for a war where he killed communists, Kerry can be counted on to deal strongly with communist China. Just don't count on Kerry to sacrifice hundreds of US soldiers lifes when war is unnecessary. He knows what a hell war is.
The grand-parent post was not discussing if Bush jr had ever been to China or not, but if Bush jr would find China on the map ...
John Forbes Kerry is not part French, but he speaks French fluently since he went to a boarding schools in Switzerland.
Clinton reduced the percentage working for the government. Bush increased it again. If you want to vote for someone who supports a small government, vote for a Democrat.
Don't experiment too much with caffeine, it is definitely unhealthy in large quantities.
I guess it is all that TOC FUD by microsoft that confuses Bill; if you can make the software cost of running Windows disappear in the TOC "analysis", then hardware cost is no challenge to calculate as close to zero.
You cannot deny that the economy did much better during Clinton than during Bush.
First term or not, it is hard to deny that the US economy would have looked very different if the country had continued Clinton's policies than Bush's. For one thing, the huge tax cuts for the rich would not have had happened. If these tax cuts are good or bad, we can discuss, but to say that Bush has had no influence on the current economy is plainly wrong.
because democrats have a history of balancing the budget?
You need to have an economy with low deficit, high employment and healthy growth before you can have the funding for such lesser things as broadband.
you got to be pretty smart to even begin to understand what these two guys did that was so smart
Double plus good double speak there.
You mean W actually met professors at those frat parties !?!
Ah, proof there is life -- intelligent life -- on the new planet!