From what I've heard is that everyone hates them, that they're forever screwing over both sellers and shoppers,
I've only ever heard sellers complaining (allegedly PayPal will never dispute a chargeback, so you can just claim the seller never delivered and get your money back)[1], so maybe they'd be fine for shoppers.
[1]And people running charitable donation accounts, but that's also on the "seller" side.
You are not some hero for breeding. Trust me, if you don't breed, the world will still go on. This isn't 1640, where having a healthy child that lives to the age of twelve is rare and you need to spread your seed far and wide just to hope for a chance of humanity's continuation.
But population growth in the west is lower than it was then. Our generation's social security payouts are already looking dicey.
You know how they "fixed" the ether? It wasn't with pen and paper, it was by thinking about the implications, then doing the experiments (in particular, michaelson-morely), and then looking at the results. The same thing they're doing now with the Higgs.
I don't think the Higgs exists either. But it's the best candidate explanation for observed phenomena. There is an upper limit on the mass of a standard model Higgs, and testing in the relevant range is reasonable; even if we don't find the Higgs, we'll likely find something interesting. Of course, if you have a better candidate model, then by all means make the predictions, publish them, and see whether they match what the LHC comes up with.
The elegant standard model of particle physics only works because the particles don't have intrinsic mass (they get their mass from coupling to the higgs field). This allows a symmetry between the three "families" of particles (electron/muon/tau, neutrino/mu neutrino/tau neutrino, up/strange/top, down/charm/bottom etc.)
So if there is no Higgs boson then we're certainly missing something. I'm not sure if it's possible for the Higgs field to exist and not carry particles; certainly you'd normally expect for particles to be able to form in a field. If there's no Higgs field then either some other mechanism gives particles mass (and I'm not aware of any real proposals) or the standard model is wrong (which it probably is wrong, but we're short on replacements). If the standard model collapses, that puts us back to having 20+ different "fundamental" particles, all discovered through experiment, with no real idea of how they're related or how many more are out there.
There is no way to extend IPv4 compatibly, because old routers won't know about the extensions, meaning people on the new addresses would get voodoo failures as their packets went to different places depending on network conditions. Not fun.
Wasn't this a bad idea when it was known as Active Desktop?
No, it was fantastic. I was quite annoyed when it was removed from later windows, only to come back in the form of "widgets" that waste far more space and are less customizable.
it was on a military town, all Japanese citizens were taught to fight until the end
So what, if the government mandates defense classes that makes civilians fair game? I guess that means there were no civilian casualties in any war ever.
it saved millions of lives
Maybe. Or maybe Japan would've surrendered to Stalin in a few weeks otherwise. In any case, it's utterly beside the point - every war crime ever was committed in the interests of "shortening the war" (by ensuring your side wins, of course). They're still war crimes.
But back in the days of IE vs Netscape no-one paid attention to any standards - it was add features and see what sticks. The html 3.2 "standard" was declared retroactively, after IE had more-or-less won. The big days of web standardization were html4, with IE the dominant browser, and those standards were basically crap - nothing new got added, the wrong choices were made on the big incompatibilities (iframes, box model, object tag), and CSS2 has never been implemented to these days.
Now we seem to be back to implementations ahead of standards - look at the video tag, which works in every browser despite not yet being standardized. The web is better off without standardization, it seems to me.
He has made an obscene amount of money and gotten a whole generation of geeks to worship his half-assed "space opera" special effects films and treat them as if they had some deep meaning.
Sounds very much like Shakespeare, only getting more of the money himself and geeks rather than English majors.
I built a rocket for £2 once. TThey're not (yet) going orbital, the only achievement they're mentioning is that it'll be the biggest amateur rocket ever, so the comparison to make is to the current-biggest amateur rocket - which I suspect cost rather less than a million.
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From what I've heard is that everyone hates them, that they're forever screwing over both sellers and shoppers,
I've only ever heard sellers complaining (allegedly PayPal will never dispute a chargeback, so you can just claim the seller never delivered and get your money back)[1], so maybe they'd be fine for shoppers.
[1]And people running charitable donation accounts, but that's also on the "seller" side.
the excess quantity of dues on slashdot?
No freedom is real unless you squander it on stupid shit for laughs
You are not some hero for breeding. Trust me, if you don't breed, the world will still go on. This isn't 1640, where having a healthy child that lives to the age of twelve is rare and you need to spread your seed far and wide just to hope for a chance of humanity's continuation.
But population growth in the west is lower than it was then. Our generation's social security payouts are already looking dicey.
I don't think the Higgs exists either. But it's the best candidate explanation for observed phenomena. There is an upper limit on the mass of a standard model Higgs, and testing in the relevant range is reasonable; even if we don't find the Higgs, we'll likely find something interesting. Of course, if you have a better candidate model, then by all means make the predictions, publish them, and see whether they match what the LHC comes up with.
So if there is no Higgs boson then we're certainly missing something. I'm not sure if it's possible for the Higgs field to exist and not carry particles; certainly you'd normally expect for particles to be able to form in a field. If there's no Higgs field then either some other mechanism gives particles mass (and I'm not aware of any real proposals) or the standard model is wrong (which it probably is wrong, but we're short on replacements). If the standard model collapses, that puts us back to having 20+ different "fundamental" particles, all discovered through experiment, with no real idea of how they're related or how many more are out there.
So the SEO types will lie in them, just like they do with meta tags.
/currently running FreeBSD for the sake of ZFS, because it's the only way to not lose data when hard disks die.
It is easy to jump on the bleeding edge. It's just worth emphasising that gentoo won't put you there by default, as many of its critics seem to think.
So you can add these tags that mean google will direct people to the original author rather than your click-through blog - but why would you?
Democracy means he has to burn down parliament first, which puts a bit more of a barrier to entry in place.
In all seriousness I wish there was a legal requirement for .com sites to be international. If your company only ships to the US, it belongs in .us.
There is no way to extend IPv4 compatibly, because old routers won't know about the extensions, meaning people on the new addresses would get voodoo failures as their packets went to different places depending on network conditions. Not fun.
There are bitcoin currency exchanges where you can trade for $US.
Yes there are. And the value fluctuates by ~8%/day. You'd be safer keeping your fortune in Everquest "gold".
Wasn't this a bad idea when it was known as Active Desktop?
No, it was fantastic. I was quite annoyed when it was removed from later windows, only to come back in the form of "widgets" that waste far more space and are less customizable.
it was on a military town, all Japanese citizens were taught to fight until the end
So what, if the government mandates defense classes that makes civilians fair game? I guess that means there were no civilian casualties in any war ever.
it saved millions of lives
Maybe. Or maybe Japan would've surrendered to Stalin in a few weeks otherwise. In any case, it's utterly beside the point - every war crime ever was committed in the interests of "shortening the war" (by ensuring your side wins, of course). They're still war crimes.
Now we seem to be back to implementations ahead of standards - look at the video tag, which works in every browser despite not yet being standardized. The web is better off without standardization, it seems to me.
Oh cool, I didn't know that. I'm sure I can find some copy of NT 4.0.
Don't suppose you happen to have a spare copy of the Alpha version lying around?
He has made an obscene amount of money and gotten a whole generation of geeks to worship his half-assed "space opera" special effects films and treat them as if they had some deep meaning.
Sounds very much like Shakespeare, only getting more of the money himself and geeks rather than English majors.
And since the big reason for using skype is to stay in touch internationally, that's a much bigger barrier than you might think.
I'm guessing VMS or OS/390?
I built a rocket for £2 once. TThey're not (yet) going orbital, the only achievement they're mentioning is that it'll be the biggest amateur rocket ever, so the comparison to make is to the current-biggest amateur rocket - which I suspect cost rather less than a million.
Sure, but when you do have a problem, can you get support?
Ooh, internet tough guy. You might think that's what you'd do, but when it actually happens you'll roll over like everyone else.