What I worry is that they didn't so much find it as they got to the end of the list and are concluding by process of elimination that that must be the Higgs.
This is where you show that you're absolutely clueless about science and the scientific method.
The Scientific Method: 1) Observation 2) Theory 3) Prediction 4) Experiment
Memorize it. Write it on your shower wall. Repeat it every morning. If something doesn't do all of those steps it isn't science. (3) and (4) are the most important (and they're what most pseudoscience skips...)
The physicists at CERN made a prediction about the Higgs Boson. What they're doing now is step (4). They don't have a wishy-washy list of possibilities, they have a definite prediction, made at step (3) before they started building the machine.
Sorry for ranting but your post sums up everything that's wrong with modern education and where it's failing.
Look at the pictures and think. Do you really, honestly believe that people who are capable of designing that fit the Fox news image of "scientist"?
I wonder if congress will forbid scientists from using the results of those dirty foreign experiments. It would certainly be unpatriotic to use them, right?
"Unfortunately, the book and CDROM are no longer being published and are hard to find as a set.'"
Thus illustrating where the copyright system is really broken.
Copyright should be automatic for ten or fifteen years then after that you should have to pay for continued protection. If it's still making money then paying isn't a problem. If it isn't making money and/or being actively promoted it should drop into public domain.
Hmm. I wonder why there's so much animosity towards C? It's a mystery.
No it isn't. C is the language of ignorant, self-taught hackers*.
C++ is a far, far better language but it requires sitting down and studying to use it properly. Hacking away at it won't do (well, ok, you may get there eventually but you could save a lot of time by sitting down for a few weeks and studying).
(*) With one exception: There's platforms where C++ is a bad choice because of very restricted target platform or rotten C++ compiler on a particular platform. These platforms are getting very thin on the ground though so this is rarely a good excuse these days.
And no, C isn't 'more efficient'. Not since the 1990's...
What happens in your GUI when you have a folder with 10,000 files in it? What if you want to do something with all those files? Are you going to do it one click at a time?
I don't know what constitution you've been reading, but it's not the Interpol one.
Interpol's constitution states that their function is: "To ensure and promote the widest possible mutual assistance between all criminal police authorities..."
ie. They act as go-betweens when more than one police force is investigating something. They provide interpreters/translators, make sure everybody has access to all the evidence, etc. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpol#Methodology )
If only one police force is involved in an investigation (eg. the Swedes) then why does Interpol need to get involved?
It's also quite obvious (to the non-wingnuts), he's going to spend a couple years in a comfy humane Swedish jail while the MSM & halfwit politicians forget all about him.
Um, the thing he's accused of in Sweden has a maximum 750 Euro fine. He could plead guilty, pay it and walk out.
He wouldn't lose any face, the world's press has been putting the word "rape" next to his name for six months now so what's the big deal?
Given the UK's extradition treaty with the US basically hands over our sovereign rights to the US with ridiculously low standards for extradition why would it make any sense to extradite him to Sweden first?
Because extradition from the UK requires you to be accused of a crime and the USA can't come up with one.
Extradition from Sweden doesn't require a crime, they can send you to the USA for 'questioning' (with zero paperwork, too - double win!)
"Extradition for inquiry" by a judge does not met a recognised standard for extradition, and the British justices tortured the statutes and precedent to accomplish their writ.
The whole thing is a shadow-play, to get Sweden extraditing him to the US, where he will be "Braziled", a'la Sam Lowery.
The Interpol warrant was a total sham too. Interpol's constitution only allows them to get involved when crimes are committed in more than one country and where there's a minimum 1-year jail sentence if they're convicted. Assange only did something in one country and it carries a maximum 750 Euro fine.
I'm also both amused and terrified at how stupid the American government can be sometimes. That investigation and raid must have cost a lot of money to put together... why not do it properly?
The people who did this are probably arrogant enough to believe that sort of thing can always be covered up later.
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What I worry is that they didn't so much find it as they got to the end of the list and are concluding by process of elimination that that must be the Higgs.
This is where you show that you're absolutely clueless about science and the scientific method.
The Scientific Method:
1) Observation
2) Theory
3) Prediction
4) Experiment
Memorize it. Write it on your shower wall. Repeat it every morning. If something doesn't do all of those steps it isn't science. (3) and (4) are the most important (and they're what most pseudoscience skips...)
The physicists at CERN made a prediction about the Higgs Boson. What they're doing now is step (4). They don't have a wishy-washy list of possibilities, they have a definite prediction, made at step (3) before they started building the machine.
Sorry for ranting but your post sums up everything that's wrong with modern education and where it's failing.
Look at the pictures and think. Do you really, honestly believe that people who are capable of designing that fit the Fox news image of "scientist"?
I wonder if congress will forbid scientists from using the results of those dirty foreign experiments. It would certainly be unpatriotic to use them, right?
"Unfortunately, the book and CDROM are no longer being published and are hard to find as a set.'"
Thus illustrating where the copyright system is really broken.
Copyright should be automatic for ten or fifteen years then after that you should have to pay for continued protection. If it's still making money then paying isn't a problem. If it isn't making money and/or being actively promoted it should drop into public domain.
"I think it was Newton..."
...but checking up before posting would be too much trouble, right?
Did Isaac Newton even know the universe was made of particles?
Hmm. I wonder why there's so much animosity towards C? It's a mystery.
No it isn't. C is the language of ignorant, self-taught hackers*.
C++ is a far, far better language but it requires sitting down and studying to use it properly. Hacking away at it won't do (well, ok, you may get there eventually but you could save a lot of time by sitting down for a few weeks and studying).
(*) With one exception: There's platforms where C++ is a bad choice because of very restricted target platform or rotten C++ compiler on a particular platform. These platforms are getting very thin on the ground though so this is rarely a good excuse these days.
And no, C isn't 'more efficient'. Not since the 1990's...
Inmos Transputer was one...
CLI is for writing code...?
What happens in your GUI when you have a folder with 10,000 files in it? What if you want to do something with all those files? Are you going to do it one click at a time?
Article = flamebait.
If someone could explain to me why x86 architecture is suddenly named x32
It isn't. x86 is some sort of thunking layer between x86 and x86. Or something.
I'm not sure of the exact details but it's not x86.
...enabling users to upgrade the devices themselves?
The phone companies don't let us...
You say that in jest but I'm sure they'd try it if they had a suitable patent.
Interpol is the organisation through which they send such requests.
Citation needed.
...and every thief in the area looked it over every time he drove past.
There's a citation on almost every other line of that page. Let us know when you find the flaw in their thinking...
I don't know what constitution you've been reading, but it's not the Interpol one.
Interpol's constitution states that their function is: "To ensure and promote the widest possible mutual assistance between all criminal police authorities..."
ie. They act as go-betweens when more than one police force is investigating something. They provide interpreters/translators, make sure everybody has access to all the evidence, etc. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpol#Methodology )
If only one police force is involved in an investigation (eg. the Swedes) then why does Interpol need to get involved?
He's being charged in Sweden, not in the US, and he is almost certainly not going to face US charges.
So...why doesn't he go to Sweden, plead guilty, pay the 750 Euro fine for his "crime" and walk free?
Oh, wait, there's that whole USA-Sweden thing where the Swedes can transfer him to the USA at the drop of a hat: http://justice4assange.com/US-Extradition.html
It's also quite obvious (to the non-wingnuts), he's going to spend a couple years in a comfy humane Swedish jail while the MSM & halfwit politicians forget all about him.
Um, the thing he's accused of in Sweden has a maximum 750 Euro fine. He could plead guilty, pay it and walk out.
He wouldn't lose any face, the world's press has been putting the word "rape" next to his name for six months now so what's the big deal?
Given the UK's extradition treaty with the US basically hands over our sovereign rights to the US with ridiculously low standards for extradition why would it make any sense to extradite him to Sweden first?
Because extradition from the UK requires you to be accused of a crime and the USA can't come up with one.
Extradition from Sweden doesn't require a crime, they can send you to the USA for 'questioning' (with zero paperwork, too - double win!)
Full details here: http://justice4assange.com/US-Extradition.html
"Extradition for inquiry" by a judge does not met a recognised standard for extradition, and the British justices tortured the statutes and precedent to accomplish their writ.
The whole thing is a shadow-play, to get Sweden extraditing him to the US, where he will be "Braziled", a'la Sam Lowery.
The Interpol warrant was a total sham too. Interpol's constitution only allows them to get involved when crimes are committed in more than one country and where there's a minimum 1-year jail sentence if they're convicted. Assange only did something in one country and it carries a maximum 750 Euro fine.
Sounds to me like Windows 8 will be the next Vista. Let's wait for Windows 9.
I don't think they've thought this cunning plan all the way through.
To "pin" something you need to have access to it in the first place. Guess where most of the things you can "pin" are stored? Yup - the start menu.
The only way pinning can work well is if they reinvent the start menu, but disguise it as something else.
I'm also both amused and terrified at how stupid the American government can be sometimes. That investigation and raid must have cost a lot of money to put together... why not do it properly?
The people who did this are probably arrogant enough to believe that sort of thing can always be covered up later.
Two hours and no Monty Python references yet...?
Leaves disappointed.
One more time: The point is that the coca-cola bottle isn't an obvious shape. The iPad is.
Patents should only be granted for non-obvious things. It's part of the rules when you apply for a patent.
Let's hope the audience didn't really swoon. The lawsuits for making the graphics _THAT_ good could break Google.
(It's a bit like writing jokes... not a lot of people know that if you make them TOO funny you can end up in court on manslaughter charges)