I know you were joking, but I thought I'd take it seriously for a moment
It really doesn't make sense to ask what happened before the big bang, because there was no "before the big bang." Consider the following:
Space and time are the same thing.
The universe is expanding.
When the big bang occurred, time and space were created. Before the big bang, there was no time. Therefore any discussion about what happened before the big bang is moot, because time didn't exist. Events (as far as we know) cannot take place without time.
Here's an interesting trick that demonstrates the interference of light:
Hold you hand out with your fingers together in front of some light source. Squeeze your fingers together until they make a tiny slit. Look at a source of light through the slit. You will notice bands between your fingers. They are interference fringes due to the wave nature of light.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
- Lord Acton
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you don't think it's just a bit interesting that it covers about half of its entire orbit in one fifteenth of the total time?
No, actually. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler#Kepler.27s_law s Kepler's elliptical orbit law: The planets orbit the sun in elliptical orbits with the sun at one focus. Kepler's equal-area law: The line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal amounts of time. Kepler's law of periods: The time required for a planet to orbit the sun, called its period, is proportional to the long axis of the ellipse raised to the 3/2 power. The constant of proportionality is the same for all the planets.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned that Spanish has two past tenses: the imperfect and the preterite. It's somewhat similiar to what's being mentioned about Choktaw, only you're more likely to encounter someone who speaks the language.
NASA also has the responsibility to make sure our bioforms don't contaminate other (possible) ecosystems - not only pre-mission, but end-mission as well. Take Galileo's crash into Jupiter for example.
I'm not sure whether we can trust private corporations with the same responsibility
This should provide a huge boost to Mozilla and other alternative browser backers.
Unfortunately, I don't think it will. I work for a small business (a Microsoft partner) which provides IT services for other small to medium sized businesses. We provide both solutions and support. If we chose to use a non-microsoft product, we loose tens of thousands of dollars in support. No viruses, worms, spyware, hijacked browsers == no money.
It seriously bothers me, but I would argue that the strength Microsoft has is not in providing well written software, but providing poorly written software prone to exploits.
I made a phone call there while at BM. It worked some of the time, but most times I got the "fast busy" signal.
While I do applaud the engineering, there were other art projects which would appeal even more to the./ crowd. I could go on forever. One thing I did see that was interesting was a giant (maybe 6x6 feet?) colorful LED matrix. Each 25x25 LED section of the matrix had it's own ethernet connection, which fed into a large switch. A computer program (a java program written on a powerbook in emacs) sent packets over ethernet to the nodes describing what they should display. It felt really awseome to stand in front of the "screen" with all the music going and look at the colors.
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Inconstitutional? That's unpossible!
I know you were joking, but I thought I'd take it seriously for a moment
It really doesn't make sense to ask what happened before the big bang, because there was no "before the big bang." Consider the following:
When the big bang occurred, time and space were created. Before the big bang, there was no time. Therefore any discussion about what happened before the big bang is moot, because time didn't exist. Events (as far as we know) cannot take place without time.
There really ought to be an activator button or device that needs to be pressed or broadcasting to make such a device safe for the implanted.
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On the other hand, it gravely erodes privacy since anything you ever put on the web can be easily traced. That's bad!
But it comes with a free Frogurt!
You must write questions for the GRE.
I'm surprised nobody asked for a fork.
I hope the guys in the server room are wearing suits!
... do not taunt Xbox 360
No joke:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Minerva
http://www.minervanet.org/
Here's an interesting trick that demonstrates the interference of light:
Hold you hand out with your fingers together in front of some light source. Squeeze your fingers together until they make a tiny slit. Look at a source of light through the slit. You will notice bands between your fingers. They are interference fringes due to the wave nature of light.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. - Lord Acton
No, actually. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler#Kepler.27s_law s
Kepler's elliptical orbit law: The planets orbit the sun in elliptical orbits with the sun at one focus.
Kepler's equal-area law: The line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal amounts of time.
Kepler's law of periods: The time required for a planet to orbit the sun, called its period, is proportional to the long axis of the ellipse raised to the 3/2 power. The constant of proportionality is the same for all the planets.
:q!
Your hinting at Euler's Identity...
exp(i*x)=cos(x)+i*sin(x)
if x = pi
exp(i*pi)=cos(pi)+i*sin(pi)
exp(i*pi)=-1+0
exp(i*pi)=-1
Amazing.
I cry mainly tears, too!
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned that Spanish has two past tenses: the imperfect and the preterite. It's somewhat similiar to what's being mentioned about Choktaw, only you're more likely to encounter someone who speaks the language.
From Linus himself: http://www.paul.sladen.org/pronunciation/
NASA also has the responsibility to make sure our bioforms don't contaminate other (possible) ecosystems - not only pre-mission, but end-mission as well. Take Galileo's crash into Jupiter for example.
I'm not sure whether we can trust private corporations with the same responsibility
Unfortunately, I don't think it will. I work for a small business (a Microsoft partner) which provides IT services for other small to medium sized businesses. We provide both solutions and support. If we chose to use a non-microsoft product, we loose tens of thousands of dollars in support. No viruses, worms, spyware, hijacked browsers == no money.
It seriously bothers me, but I would argue that the strength Microsoft has is not in providing well written software, but providing poorly written software prone to exploits.
While I do applaud the engineering, there were other art projects which would appeal even more to the ./ crowd. I could go on forever. One thing I did see that was interesting was a giant (maybe 6x6 feet?) colorful LED matrix. Each 25x25 LED section of the matrix had it's own ethernet connection, which fed into a large switch. A computer program (a java program written on a powerbook in emacs) sent packets over ethernet to the nodes describing what they should display. It felt really awseome to stand in front of the "screen" with all the music going and look at the colors.
Also, I was high.