We didn't end up with a million different atoms, atomitons, atomites, and gluoneoatomiquarks. .... ...these polaritons, and fermions, and gluons, and quarks, and mesons, and bosons, all together with photons.
I find the juxtaposition of those two statements to be hysterical. The fact that they can claim to have found (yet another) "new form of matter" is just another point in the indictment of how broken the Standard Model really is. The dirty secret is that the math happens to work and give some predictive power, but that theoretically it has no more explanitory power than claiming that it's "turtles all the way down". It's (the Standard Model) comparable to "miasmas" before the introduction of germ theory, or the corpuscular theory of light.
As for the sensationalist headlines, that's just a funding ploy.
So that makes your post "what someone says about what someone says about what MS says about Vista sales", which makes my post "what someone says about what someone says about what someone says about what MS says about Vista sales"...
Even knowing the identity and motives of the "real" assassin would do nothing more than satisfy historical curiosity. It would be no different than finding out that Archduke Ferdinand was really killed by a Frenchman. You can't change history. (but you can re-write it.)
I don't think you're trolling, but if you think that (even given the budget and the will) that we could do it in less than 8 years, I think you're dreaming.
A good friend of mine lost his beautiful 19-year-old daughter recently when a woman driving an SUV was told "turn left here" by her onboard navigation system - so she snapped the wheel to the left, into the girl's driver door, killing her. So, yeah, "Unthinking obedience to the technical gizmo" just about covers it. You can write this off as anecdotal if you wish, but that's the way it happened.
That must not be very reassuring for the astronauts.
"It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract."
--Alan Shepard
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Maybe "Hi, I'm a Wii; And I'm a Playstation 3" is why.
Physics locker room.
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Episode V: "The Disney Empire Strikes Back".
That releases too much methane.
As for the sensationalist headlines, that's just a funding ploy.
Computer geeks studying simulated vulval development.
So that makes your post "what someone says about what someone says about what MS says about Vista sales", which makes my post "what someone says about what someone says about what someone says about what MS says about Vista sales"...
Microsoft's whizzo bullshit bites yet another ass.
Even knowing the identity and motives of the "real" assassin would do nothing more than satisfy historical curiosity. It would be no different than finding out that Archduke Ferdinand was really killed by a Frenchman. You can't change history. (but you can re-write it.)
He's dead - get over it. Marilyn Monroe: dead too. Elvis: him too.
Get over it.
"Time flies like an arrow".
"Fruit flies like a bananna."
It's hard to wreck a nice beach...
U R in amaze of twisty little pasages, all a like
Rot in hell you smug son of a bitch.
The first game anybody saw, other than in a lab, was PONG. And that was 1972 IIRC.
Yeah. All I have to do is take on Microsoft's legal department and the USPTO to prove that it's a bad patent.
I don't think you're trolling, but if you think that (even given the budget and the will) that we could do it in less than 8 years, I think you're dreaming.
That's so you can find the power switch in the dark, and so it doesn't distract you while watching TV.
Two words: electrical tape
Double Bah! A real /. reader would know that pirates beat ninjas every time.
A good friend of mine lost his beautiful 19-year-old daughter recently when a woman driving an SUV was told "turn left here" by her onboard navigation system - so she snapped the wheel to the left, into the girl's driver door, killing her. So, yeah, "Unthinking obedience to the technical gizmo" just about covers it. You can write this off as anecdotal if you wish, but that's the way it happened.
--Alan Shepard