This comment is geared towards other professional physicsts, even though few might see it. The Cooperstock paper is clearly wrong, although the reason turns out to be subtle. See astro-ph/0507619.
Anyone remember those Fisher-Price "Power Wheels" when you were a little kid? Imagine if it had one of these babies in it.... even better than this new fad of miniature motorcylces.
This is a classic tactic: Create a stir about an issue that is not really an issue and people will start making it an issue. This is analogous to the political tactic of "wedge issues" in elections.
This has got me thinkning. If Cuba is switching to Linux, there is a greater possibility that North Korea uses or will switch to Linux too. This is actually good because imagine at some super secret North Korea nuclear missile silo, some Windows box displays: "A fatal exception 0E has occurred at 0028:C0011E36 in VXD VMM(01)+00010E36. The current application, 'missiles standby', will be terminated."
So actually, there IS a reason they call it the blue screen of DEATH.
Bill Gates said he would bring down Apple's iPod one way or the other. I just don't know whether making it larger and providing less hard disk space is the way to go about it!
"hear Spanish songs and record their own efforts to speak Spanish." Just what I need, a $300 iPod to listen to my own crappy, broken spanish...
What "language" they really need to use this for is C++ or Java so they can transport files, etc.
The article presents statistics at its worst (read "How to Lie with Statistics"...great book). The article leaves out extraneous factors such as the type of people who own macs and what socio-economic group they come from. Generally, the people who own macs have to have enough money to buy them in the first place. Many people WANT macs but realistically do not have enough money to actually BUY them.
Practically everyone grows up using Windows. However, at some point in type some people decide to switch. Now, I could very easily state that at this point in time the smart, curious, techno guys move onto Unix and/or its variants, the rich guys buy macs, and the rest (majority) stay with Windows.
Oh, but then I would be stereotyping just like the article does.:p
"I wonder about the transform that must happen with the information when it gos into a black hole. For example radio waves. Or maybe light or matter. How is that all preserved if it is only turned into the one kind of radiation?"
With out going into too much detail, think of it this way: a hologram can be considered a 2-dimensional object that holds the information of 3-dimensions... A lot of physics at this level involves bending your mind around concepts that are nearly impossible to visualize; you simply have the math in front of you and then you try to interpret it.
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This comment is geared towards other professional physicsts, even though few might see it. The Cooperstock paper is clearly wrong, although the reason turns out to be subtle. See astro-ph/0507619.
These articles are like monthly soap operas. What will happen next? Google gets pregnant? lame.
It seems Vice President Dick Cheney has fully and openly embraced this technology already. http://www.dreamchaos.net/~splash/funny/cheney_rob ot.png
Anyone remember those Fisher-Price "Power Wheels" when you were a little kid? Imagine if it had one of these babies in it.... even better than this new fad of miniature motorcylces.
This is a classic tactic: Create a stir about an issue that is not really an issue and people will start making it an issue. This is analogous to the political tactic of "wedge issues" in elections.
This has got me thinkning. If Cuba is switching to Linux, there is a greater possibility that North Korea uses or will switch to Linux too. This is actually good because imagine at some super secret North Korea nuclear missile silo, some Windows box displays: "A fatal exception 0E has occurred at 0028:C0011E36 in VXD VMM(01)+00010E36. The current application, 'missiles standby', will be terminated." So actually, there IS a reason they call it the blue screen of DEATH.
Bill Gates said he would bring down Apple's iPod one way or the other. I just don't know whether making it larger and providing less hard disk space is the way to go about it!
Quake not dark and brown? Blasphemy!
"hear Spanish songs and record their own efforts to speak Spanish." Just what I need, a $300 iPod to listen to my own crappy, broken spanish... What "language" they really need to use this for is C++ or Java so they can transport files, etc.
The article presents statistics at its worst (read "How to Lie with Statistics" ...great book). The article leaves out extraneous factors such as the type of people who own macs and what socio-economic group they come from. Generally, the people who own macs have to have enough money to buy them in the first place. Many people WANT macs but realistically do not have enough money to actually BUY them.
Practically everyone grows up using Windows. However, at some point in type some people decide to switch. Now, I could very easily state that at this point in time the smart, curious, techno guys move onto Unix and/or its variants, the rich guys buy macs, and the rest (majority) stay with Windows.
Oh, but then I would be stereotyping just like the article does. :p
"I wonder about the transform that must happen with the information when it gos into a black hole. For example radio waves. Or maybe light or matter. How is that all preserved if it is only turned into the one kind of radiation?" With out going into too much detail, think of it this way: a hologram can be considered a 2-dimensional object that holds the information of 3-dimensions... A lot of physics at this level involves bending your mind around concepts that are nearly impossible to visualize; you simply have the math in front of you and then you try to interpret it.