If the Dark Matter theory is wrong, it's very hard to imagine what else could possibly explain all those numbers, all at once.
Oh, no, it's simple enough to imagine. Just assume General Relativity is merely an approximation of how gravity really works, much like Newtonian gravity was. If GR is wrong, then all those calculations are based on the same innacurate model of gravity, and the errors should thus show roughly the same prediction errors.
I mean, look, nobody's yet reconcilled GR and and Quantum Mechanics (though superstring theory tries), and nobody's come up with observed results that seriously contradict QM. On the other hand, we have plenty of observational evidence that GR doesn't work unless 96% of the universe is dark matter or dark energy.
So we have a theory (GR) that explains a certain domain of cases, but is unreconcilled to the rest of physics and is wildly wrong when we use it to try to describe some observed phenomena. What more natural conclusion to reach than GR is wrong in the same sense Newton was wrong, and that we now are sitting and waiting for the next Newton/Einstein to come along and explain things?
Now, that assumption doesn't do us any good in the short term, true. But I expect (not really scientifically, but just as a hunch) that the search for the Higgs boson is going to give us the clues that lead to a quantum theory of gravity, and that theory will let us zero out dark matter and dark energy.
Why did Columbus sail? To open a commercial route across the Atlantic to buy luxury goods for the rich from the East
How was the technology Columbus used developed? By the patronage of Henry the Navigator, whose goal was to forge a Portuguese route to the East for the shipment of luxury goods for the rich from the East Indies.
It's very nice to rant about how space is a matter of long-term survival. What's going to get us there is the same thing that got Columbus to America -- the chance to make money.
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How long has MSN Search been the default integrated with IE? Five years now? Seven? Google didn't even exist when it was integrated, and yet still managed to take over from out of nowhere.
Well, if it's anything like Microsoft's previous attempts at dominating a market, it may prove atrociously easy for them.
Ah, yes, like how everybody uses Ultimate TV instead of TiVo, the X-Box instead of the PS2, MSN instead of AOL, Windows CE instead of PalmOS, IIS instead of Apache . . .
Well, the DoJ Antitrust division could stop it. But it wouldn't be necessary.
Microsoft would still be, as the succeeding party, bound to the Unix license agreements entered into by AT&T, USL, Novell, Tarantella/SCO, and Caldera/SCO. These licenses are, for the most part, perpetual licenses, and thus would require that Microsoft prove the licensee is in violation of the terms in a court of law in order to successfully terminate them.
Then they'd have to prove that Linux stole code, much like SCO is trying to, or else Linux would still be there competing with them
Even then, it wouldn't touch 4.4 BSD Lite derivatives (Free, Net and Open BSD); Microsoft would have to find a pretext to challenge the AT&T-UCB settlement agreement and win the case, and not have AT&T's theft of UCB IP come back and bite it on its ass.
And after all those improbable victories, there would be quite a bit of the GNU, Linux, BSD, Minix, and other Unix-workalike codebases (both Open Source and not) out there that wouldn't violate any possible Microsoft rights, and the Open Group would still own the Unix trademark.
The result is that a free *nix, eligible for certification as a genuine Unix, would still be around no matter what Microsoft did.
Again and again, I have to make the same point. Mind control ray waves are *not* radio, or any other standard form of electromagnetism, but a "fifth force" that's an obscure and classified consequence of the unified elecrotweak force.
The properties of MCRWs are such that they must be fine-tuned for specific elements to take effect; for protien-based biological systems, this requires targetting at carbon, oxygen, or nitrogen. (There are technical issues with hydrogen that make it unsuitable.) The vast quantities of atmospheric oxygen and nitrogen disrupt MCRWs. This leaves carbon, and carbon alone, as the only useful channel for long-distance mind control using MCRWs.
Now, because of the mixture of chemical and nuclear properties the MCRWs depend on, they are readily disrupted by, and only by, metallic elements of the same periodic table group as the target element. That means carbon-targetted MCRWs are not affected in any manner by aluminum. Instead, they are readily disrupted by tin and/or lead. (Incidentally, the group-binding characteristics make it easy for the same emitter to give a duplex carbon-silicon control wave to control both humans and computers.)
Why do you think lead has been eliminated from paint, pipes, and gasoline? No, it's not because of health dangers; those are myths. It's because lead in homes and the atmosphere interfered with MCRWs. It's the same reason they make sure you can't buy genuine tin foil anymore.
Aliminum will *not* protect you. Accept no substitutes: use genuine tin. Your mind will thank you.
Okay, but this really doesn't fall into that category of stupidity.
After all, Google does a lot of specialty searches, and Google does a specialized search under a similar-sounding name (Froogle). The only reason to believe that they wouldn't do a specialty porn search is the assumption that "respectable" companies don't deal in porn.
Which is perhaps a reasonable assumption, but it's certainly not a law of nature; after all, popular children's cartoons are made by the same company that delivers pay-per-view porn directly into American homes (Time-Warner).
So unless you bothered to read the fine print at the bottom of the page that said it wasn't affiliated with any other search engine, it's not a totally stupid conclusion to decide that Google's created a new specialty search.
This isn't really equivalent to those movies, because the search results themselves aren't a parody.
The equivalent here would be me creating, not Spaceballs, but a ordinary SF action-adventure flick and titling it "Star Trek Wars: Rise of Darth Kirk".
Sure, my title is a parody, but my movie isn't, and I'm using Star Trek/Wars IP to promote my non-parody movie. That isn't the same thing as what Spaceballs does.
And there is plenty of room for confusion, anyway. Google uses a slight variant of its name for an actual specialized searche (Froogle). Booble uses a slight variant of Google's name and very similar look & feel to do an actual specialized search, and Booble's disclaimer is not remotely prominent.
The U.S. system of untis has a number of differences from the Imperial system, largely because the U.S. system is based on the English system, not the Imperial System.
The Imperial System was adopted in 1824 (effective in 1826) by the British Parliament, and was partly inspired by the metric system. For example, it was declared that, much like a liter of water weighed a kilogram, a gallon of water would henceforth weigh ten pounds, despite the fact that no unit of volume of fluid in the history of any consistuent part of the British Empire, including England, ever was equal to the volume of ten pounds of water.
The U.S., on the other hand, continued to use a collection of units imported from England back when a Kingdom of England and an English Parliament existed. In fact, the U.S. gallon today is the same as the last gallon ever approved by the English Parliament before its dissolution in favor of the British Parliament, dating to March 1, 1707, twenty-five days before the effective date of the 1707 Act of Union.
you don't have to go to law school to become a lawyer.
In most states, you do have to go to law school to become a lawyer; a degree from a law school is a requirement to sit the bar.
There are two exceptions: Seven states allow law office-centered study programs as alternative to law school; and seven states allow lawyers who had an active practice in other jurisdictions (e.g., work-study program lawyers from other states or foreign lawyers) may take the bar without proof of law school education.
Certainly, but SCO made this point to the judge a long time ago, before he ruled in favor of IBM on the relative discovery motions. The judge, by his very order that SCO provide evidence first, essentially found for IBM on the case already.
SCO's complaint that it need AIX and Dynix code at this point is just piling up objections for the inevitable appeal. The core of its argument has already been rejected de facto by the current judge.
The closest analogy I can think of is trying to have make a marriage work with two spouses at the same time.
Most marriages have two spouses; a husband and a wife.
Furthermore, responding to what you meant, there are significant numbers of legal marriages where the husband has two to four wives simultaneously, in dozens of countries around the world.
Which isn't the point. All of them are successes; a President with high approval ratings, a President and Nobel Peace Prize winner, a self-made millionaire, and a Senator.
Okay, you might argue for Carter on the basis his Presidency didn't work out well, with the economy and the hostages and the Ayatollahs. But still, a search for a "miserable failure" gives you at least three successful people in the first four, entirely because of political animus.
Let's assume every single one of the 100 billion stars in the galaxy is inhabited, and each star has a population of 10 trillion humans in orbit around it, and each human has 1 billion devices that need IP addresses. In that case, only 1/340,282nd of the possible 128-bit IPv6 addresses would need to be assigned.
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Victoria Bitter and Melbourne Bitter are Foster's -- they're brands owned and brewed by Foster's Group.
Same with the Carlton, Cascade, Foster's (duh), Powers, Redback, and Reschs brands. And a number of others, too.
That's an interesting definition of the word "imagine". Oddly, I can't find it in the OED.
If the Dark Matter theory is wrong, it's very hard to imagine what else could possibly explain all those numbers, all at once.
Oh, no, it's simple enough to imagine. Just assume General Relativity is merely an approximation of how gravity really works, much like Newtonian gravity was. If GR is wrong, then all those calculations are based on the same innacurate model of gravity, and the errors should thus show roughly the same prediction errors.
I mean, look, nobody's yet reconcilled GR and and Quantum Mechanics (though superstring theory tries), and nobody's come up with observed results that seriously contradict QM. On the other hand, we have plenty of observational evidence that GR doesn't work unless 96% of the universe is dark matter or dark energy.
So we have a theory (GR) that explains a certain domain of cases, but is unreconcilled to the rest of physics and is wildly wrong when we use it to try to describe some observed phenomena. What more natural conclusion to reach than GR is wrong in the same sense Newton was wrong, and that we now are sitting and waiting for the next Newton/Einstein to come along and explain things?
Now, that assumption doesn't do us any good in the short term, true. But I expect (not really scientifically, but just as a hunch) that the search for the Higgs boson is going to give us the clues that lead to a quantum theory of gravity, and that theory will let us zero out dark matter and dark energy.
Mmm-hmm.
Why did Columbus sail? To open a commercial route across the Atlantic to buy luxury goods for the rich from the East
How was the technology Columbus used developed? By the patronage of Henry the Navigator, whose goal was to forge a Portuguese route to the East for the shipment of luxury goods for the rich from the East Indies.
It's very nice to rant about how space is a matter of long-term survival. What's going to get us there is the same thing that got Columbus to America -- the chance to make money.
How long has MSN Search been the default integrated with IE? Five years now? Seven? Google didn't even exist when it was integrated, and yet still managed to take over from out of nowhere.
Well, if it's anything like Microsoft's previous attempts at dominating a market, it may prove atrociously easy for them.
Ah, yes, like how everybody uses Ultimate TV instead of TiVo, the X-Box instead of the PS2, MSN instead of AOL, Windows CE instead of PalmOS, IIS instead of Apache . . .
In my experience, "highly trained technical professionals" would have enough real world experience to know that it was a troll.
Well, the DoJ Antitrust division could stop it. But it wouldn't be necessary.
Microsoft would still be, as the succeeding party, bound to the Unix license agreements entered into by AT&T, USL, Novell, Tarantella/SCO, and Caldera/SCO. These licenses are, for the most part, perpetual licenses, and thus would require that Microsoft prove the licensee is in violation of the terms in a court of law in order to successfully terminate them.
Then they'd have to prove that Linux stole code, much like SCO is trying to, or else Linux would still be there competing with them
Even then, it wouldn't touch 4.4 BSD Lite derivatives (Free, Net and Open BSD); Microsoft would have to find a pretext to challenge the AT&T-UCB settlement agreement and win the case, and not have AT&T's theft of UCB IP come back and bite it on its ass.
And after all those improbable victories, there would be quite a bit of the GNU, Linux, BSD, Minix, and other Unix-workalike codebases (both Open Source and not) out there that wouldn't violate any possible Microsoft rights, and the Open Group would still own the Unix trademark.
The result is that a free *nix, eligible for certification as a genuine Unix, would still be around no matter what Microsoft did.
No, no, no!
Again and again, I have to make the same point. Mind control ray waves are *not* radio, or any other standard form of electromagnetism, but a "fifth force" that's an obscure and classified consequence of the unified elecrotweak force.
The properties of MCRWs are such that they must be fine-tuned for specific elements to take effect; for protien-based biological systems, this requires targetting at carbon, oxygen, or nitrogen. (There are technical issues with hydrogen that make it unsuitable.) The vast quantities of atmospheric oxygen and nitrogen disrupt MCRWs. This leaves carbon, and carbon alone, as the only useful channel for long-distance mind control using MCRWs.
Now, because of the mixture of chemical and nuclear properties the MCRWs depend on, they are readily disrupted by, and only by, metallic elements of the same periodic table group as the target element. That means carbon-targetted MCRWs are not affected in any manner by aluminum. Instead, they are readily disrupted by tin and/or lead. (Incidentally, the group-binding characteristics make it easy for the same emitter to give a duplex carbon-silicon control wave to control both humans and computers.)
Why do you think lead has been eliminated from paint, pipes, and gasoline? No, it's not because of health dangers; those are myths. It's because lead in homes and the atmosphere interfered with MCRWs. It's the same reason they make sure you can't buy genuine tin foil anymore.
Aliminum will *not* protect you. Accept no substitutes: use genuine tin. Your mind will thank you.
Okay, but this really doesn't fall into that category of stupidity.
After all, Google does a lot of specialty searches, and Google does a specialized search under a similar-sounding name (Froogle). The only reason to believe that they wouldn't do a specialty porn search is the assumption that "respectable" companies don't deal in porn.
Which is perhaps a reasonable assumption, but it's certainly not a law of nature; after all, popular children's cartoons are made by the same company that delivers pay-per-view porn directly into American homes (Time-Warner).
So unless you bothered to read the fine print at the bottom of the page that said it wasn't affiliated with any other search engine, it's not a totally stupid conclusion to decide that Google's created a new specialty search.
This isn't really equivalent to those movies, because the search results themselves aren't a parody.
The equivalent here would be me creating, not Spaceballs, but a ordinary SF action-adventure flick and titling it "Star Trek Wars: Rise of Darth Kirk".
Sure, my title is a parody, but my movie isn't, and I'm using Star Trek/Wars IP to promote my non-parody movie. That isn't the same thing as what Spaceballs does.
And there is plenty of room for confusion, anyway. Google uses a slight variant of its name for an actual specialized searche (Froogle). Booble uses a slight variant of Google's name and very similar look & feel to do an actual specialized search, and Booble's disclaimer is not remotely prominent.
reason; there never was a Fox News vs. Simpsons tiff.
Groening came out and said his comment was just a joke; Fox News never complained about the Simpsons parody, much less threaten to sue.
The U.S. system of untis has a number of differences from the Imperial system, largely because the U.S. system is based on the English system, not the Imperial System.
The Imperial System was adopted in 1824 (effective in 1826) by the British Parliament, and was partly inspired by the metric system. For example, it was declared that, much like a liter of water weighed a kilogram, a gallon of water would henceforth weigh ten pounds, despite the fact that no unit of volume of fluid in the history of any consistuent part of the British Empire, including England, ever was equal to the volume of ten pounds of water.
The U.S., on the other hand, continued to use a collection of units imported from England back when a Kingdom of England and an English Parliament existed. In fact, the U.S. gallon today is the same as the last gallon ever approved by the English Parliament before its dissolution in favor of the British Parliament, dating to March 1, 1707, twenty-five days before the effective date of the 1707 Act of Union.
You're confusing the U.S. system of units and the Imperial system. In the Imperial system, a gallon of water is exactly ten pounds.
Um, no, silver is not toxic. You might notice that it is used for forks and spoons and the like . . .
you don't have to go to law school to become a lawyer.
In most states, you do have to go to law school to become a lawyer; a degree from a law school is a requirement to sit the bar.
There are two exceptions: Seven states allow law office-centered study programs as alternative to law school; and seven states allow lawyers who had an active practice in other jurisdictions (e.g., work-study program lawyers from other states or foreign lawyers) may take the bar without proof of law school education.
Now, now, it wasn't all bad. The restored Jabba scene in A New Hope (Harrison Ford talking to a CGI Jabba) was quite worthwhile.
Certainly, but SCO made this point to the judge a long time ago, before he ruled in favor of IBM on the relative discovery motions. The judge, by his very order that SCO provide evidence first, essentially found for IBM on the case already.
SCO's complaint that it need AIX and Dynix code at this point is just piling up objections for the inevitable appeal. The core of its argument has already been rejected de facto by the current judge.
Hmm. So the Hisotry Channel was that off-its-ass wrong? Because been dates back to the Ancient Egyptians, as in several millenia BC.
The closest analogy I can think of is trying to have make a marriage work with two spouses at the same time.
Most marriages have two spouses; a husband and a wife.
Furthermore, responding to what you meant, there are significant numbers of legal marriages where the husband has two to four wives simultaneously, in dozens of countries around the world.
Which isn't the point. All of them are successes; a President with high approval ratings, a President and Nobel Peace Prize winner, a self-made millionaire, and a Senator.
Okay, you might argue for Carter on the basis his Presidency didn't work out well, with the economy and the hostages and the Ayatollahs. But still, a search for a "miserable failure" gives you at least three successful people in the first four, entirely because of political animus.
Note that "SCO" is still legally and officially Caldera; it's merely filed a d/b/a form with the SCO name.
Even if New Zealand assumes soverign control, Niue will probably retain its ccTLD.
Well, okay. If each human in this scenario needs 340,283 unique IPv6 addresses for each of a billion devices, then there might be some trouble.
Me, I'm satisfied we have enough address space.
Yes, even then.
Let's assume every single one of the 100 billion stars in the galaxy is inhabited, and each star has a population of 10 trillion humans in orbit around it, and each human has 1 billion devices that need IP addresses. In that case, only 1/340,282nd of the possible 128-bit IPv6 addresses would need to be assigned.