[quote]
Nazi Germany was not by any means capitalist
[/quote]
Sure they were. They contracted private corporations (like
IBM) to work for them. Their military industrial complex was run by
wealthy upper class German gentry/nobility specifically those of Nordic descent. The sole reason why the
British & Americans supported them was because they were a
capitalist regime (despite being called national 'socialists'). The 3rd reich was the ultimate realization of white christian capitalist idealogy, the proliferation of death for profit.
[quote]
General Pinochet, but while a free marketeer he did not reign over a
free people.[/quote]
Capitalist Order:
America:Murdered millions of native americans, nearly eradicating their
entire race.
Enordsed third reich (see below) until it no longer became fashionable
Capitalist Order:
Britain: Murdered so many people that historians have lost count. The
East India company was the most singularly barbaric regime in all of
South Asia's history. Until its dissolution in 1858, it was responsible
foe more cases of genocide and democide than all of the others before
it put together.
Capitalist Order:
The Third Reich: Murdered 6 million Jews, Homosexuals, Jehovah's
Witnesses, Handicapped and mentally retarded people, Gypsies
etc. The most barbaric of white supremacist regimes was
sustained by a military industrial complex that held the entire
civilized world hostage.
Capitalist Order:
Imperial Japan: Murdered close to 20 million Chinese and Korean
civilians
total of the above: ~ Dozens of millions over ~ 150 years.
Communist Order:
CP(M) govt, West Bengal, India: Murdered 0 people
Kerala, India: Murdered 0 people
Communist Order:
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Murdered few million under
misguided regime of Stalin.
Communist Order:
Peoples Republic of China: Murdered less than 1 million (except in the
minds of rednecks).
Communist(?) Order:
Khmer Rouge: Murdered many millions, but they were communist in name
only, (except, again, in the white trash mind) so they don't count.
Total: ~ Few million over ~75 years
Both roughly the same, as you see. The only differences lie
in the imaginations of racial defamers like the Nazis, white
supremacists and the miscellaneous other anti-semites in the west who
defame communism for the sole reason that Karl Marx was of Jewish
heritage.
Also, the ACX chipset is well supported natively (http://acx100.sourceforge.net./ Typically, TI & DLink cards run on them.The drivers above are ones that I have personally compiled &/or used.
There are many cards that work well natively &/or using ndiswrapper. Just google for the info before you buy one.
USB-WLAN adapters are a bit of a problem on linux because of proprietary technology.
I'm not sure we'll see
any real changes until we remove the federal
funding of education from all education, especially the college grants
and loans that the government seems to happy to dole out.
==
I thank the gods you're not in my country. Anyone insane
enough to believe that education should be privately funded is better
off inside rooms with rubber walls than out on the streets.
Privately Funded education => teaching what the owners
want you to teach.
Owners => People with money
People with money in America =>
A.Legacy families in the East Coast who are all either:
1. Completely crazy religious fanatics
2. Pretending to be the above so as to keep their
adoring public ignorant so that they can buy the crap these families
sell to keep themselves rich
B.Rich movie producers in the west coast who also want to keep their
countrymen dumb so that they can watch their cras mindless Hollywood
junk
=> Reduction of education standards=> Teaching
Christian theology as mainstream => No more science or anything
thta involves logic
Yes, yes. Please stay in America. Don't ever come to my
country. We have a marginally responsible government who keep rich
people away from any education control. This is why we have the IIT's,
and your equivalents are increasingly turning out to be worthless.
Like I said in my post above. There isn't enough credence for superluminality to even debate its possibility. All of the arguments above are valid only when we question the possibility of FTL. But even the issue of FTL's possibility is without meaning. It's like arguing over the veracity of a random collection of characters and asking whether it forms a word or not. The bottom line is, if I can go faster than light, I can go backwards in time and kill my own grandfather. Now, the indeterministic nature of quantum theory can allow for this (since electrons interact with their own past selves in Hartree-Fock self energy diagrams (for instance), and both the present and "past" wavefunctions are affected by each other. But it's never possible for a quantum particle to completely annihiliate its past self, hence there is no paradox in the quantum realm. However, I am not a quantum particle. I am a classical object subject to classical laws of physics. By classical laws I CAN completely annihiliate my past self if I could travel back in time. Thus I (or anyone else) cannot travel in FTL or communicate in FTL because it produces a meaningless solution.
Aparently we can (in theory) with a large enough magnetic field and by
using it to slip in to another dimension. In fact, I think we are
rather ingnorant/arogant in thinking that we know that we can't go any
faster than light. When people used to discuss speed, it was common
knowlege that one could not go faster than 60miles per hour and still
be able to breathe properly (or at all). I forsee a day when people
will laugh at our naivety in relation to our perception of relativity
and quantum physics.
[/quote]
Sorry, but that is just double naysaying. The above example
you cited about the 60mph thing (as well as other claims now disproven,
like you cant exceed the speed of sound etc.) was not based on hard
facts, but vague conjecture and speculation. Furthermore, the dogma in
those claims was obvious from the fact that they were deemed
"impossible". Nothing is truly impossible. ButFTL
acceleration is not impossible. It is completely meaningless as it
simply violates causality. If FTL accn is possible, then our entire
understanding of physics is almost completely wrong, and there is ample
tangible evidence to suggest that is not so.
Furthermore, as a physicist, I do NOT laugh at the 'naivety'
of the physicists of the last century at all, or the century before
that. I know they made some mistakes and reached some false
conclusions. I am also aware that everything that we know about the
natural world today can be traced back to their work. Even quantum and
statistical theory could not have been possible without the knowledge
of Newtonian Mechanics and classical thermodynamics. If the scientists
of the future look back and ridicule us for our efforts, they would be
ignorant fools who dont realize that their understanding of physics has
improved because of what we have discovered in this time.
I know that real scientists will never be as arrogantly clueless as you, or the folks who modded you up
are, though.
Well I agree that the beginning post of the thread thread post probably
BS, it does contain a kernel of truth. Its just that as projects and
organizations get bigger, the execution of even the simplest of tasks
involve hitherto-insignificant variables, often the most important one
being lack of communication between involved parties, or lack of
information.
Like, for example (this is academic, not corporate) I had to
run a rather nontrivial simulation in many particle physics. Running it
on my dual core SMP desktop using openMP wuld take 3-4 days. Running it
on a 224-way distributive grid (to which I have access) would take
maybe 3-4 hours (walltime). But my proggie needs ESSL & GSL.
GSL wasn't installed on the grid frontend and I had to contact the
sysadmin. He didnt know GSL was OSS and so whined about liscensing etc
until I told him to bollox it all. He then had to submit a installation
query to the chaps who installed stuff. He had to explain to them that
the GSL library was GPL'ed and so just had to download and compile
them. Then a week later they compiled & installed GSL but
fscked the permissions so I couldn't read the headers (but the sysadmin
could). I had to go thru a formal process of submitting tickets and
what not just so they'd do "chmod -R g+r $WHEREVER" . That
took a week (WTF???!?!). They just did not seem to get why I
couldn't compile when they could. Finally I compile and run the proggie
& it takes forever on the grid. Turns out they didn't optimize
the libs for parallelization, so resubmit tickets and ask them to
recompile. Another week.
Hell I culd've just ran the damn thing on my desktop
& wuld've be done by now.
Well can we distinguish a workstation from a "desktop" by the
CPU architecture (Intel/AMD/ppc for desktops, sparc/IBM etc for
workstations)? This wouldn't be canon, of course. As far as performance
is concerned, the distinction seems blurred nowadays:
[This proves nothing. you are still MOVING at 200mph in relation to the
observer who is on the ground. and if you take 3 steps in a plane
moving 200 mph, you've just traversed the same distance as the plane
did...in 3 steps. ]
Not when you take Lorentz Transformation into account. The
above is only valid for Galilean Transformations. Look in Wikipedia or any textbook on STR
[-nope. c = the speed of light in a vaccum. c can be much much slower
when in a medium...such as water. scientists have recently been able to
slow the speed of light down to walking speed. ]
Wrong as well.Have tocorrect you on this as well.
Light only 'moves' in vacuum. In a medium, the "Speed" of light is an
averaging effect of photons scattering off of the atoms in the medium,
but the atoms are still embedded in vacuuum, and the scatterred photon
is also embedded in vacuum and it's speed is c at any instant of time
in any frame of reference.
[The very word,
RELATIVITY, indicates the complexity and the depth
that must be considered when working with the laws of physics. The laws
can change and DO change relative to where you are and how fast you are
moving and any number of other factors.]
Either you haven't actually studied any STR, or you've been
taught badly, since the statement above is utterly contrary to the
basic postulate of relativity viz.
"The fundamental laws of physics are Lorentz Covariant"
Read any textbook in STR> Taylor & Wheeler, Bergmann,
Resnick, you name it. It's there.Sorry, but the parent was basically right about his points
Hey is it very accurate to call it a "negative refraction"? Since
N=Sqrt(e*mu) it must always be positive real or complex (in which case
the wave gets damped).
If defined that way, wouldn't a -ve index violate causality?
Let me also ask how you folks define refraction. Do
you define it in terms of directionality (the wave that's deflected
into the other medium) or in terms of polarization & phase
change? Jackson (p303) implicitly defines refraction as that part of
the final solution of maxwells equations (with the incident wave as the
initial conditions) with the same sign of
\arrow(k).\hat(n)
as the incident wave and the reflected wave as the one with
the opposite sign. The derivation of the reflected and refracted wave
isan a-posteriori one but one that is the standard. In your
theoretical models, are you using a similar a-posteriori trial solution
(you assume that there is 'negative refraction' and plug that solution
into Maxwell's Eqns and brute force it into the boundary
conditions) to get this negative refraction, or is this just
a matter of semantics to call it 'negative refraction' and what you're
really getting is some sort of directional backscattering effect caused
by the geometry of the constituents of your material.
Also, if the reflected wave is the same as before, then wont the normal component of the dielectric displacement no longer be continuous at the interface, violating Maxwell's Equations?
the particle is
"spinning" exactly the same way whatever the angle
you look at it : you watch it from the top, from the left, from behind,
you always see it spinning clockwise, a bit like if it turns to face
you. It's call the "spin" because its property _looks_ like it was
spinning, but the particle doesn't really move or turn. Actually, a
particle doesn't have a form, it isn't a sphere. Form is like
temperature : temperature being the average speed of individual atoms
inside a set of atoms, temperature only exist at a macro level, that is
for a large set of atom. For a single atom, temperature doesn't exist.
It's the same for form, thus for "spinning". Those are called
_emergent_ properties (i.e. properties of a whole that cannot be
predicted from properties of the parts), and they are meaningless for
particles.
In the case of this weird instant remote "action", the two linked
particles are in fact a _single_ entity.
/Quote
A more concise way to put it is thus:
A "particle" in quantum theory is a complete set of
symmetries (commuting observables). Spin is one of those symmetries
that define an elementary particle. The "clockwise" "counterclockwise"
thing is an analogy borrowed from the fact that spin, like angular
momentum, forms the generator group of rotations i.e the group of all
possible vector spins generates the group of all possible rotations,
much like angular momentum (which is what causes actual dynamical
'spinning'). By the fundamental postulates of quantum
mechanics, an arbitrarily precise measurement of a physical quantity
collapses a system to the eigenstate corresponding to that quantity and
KEEPS it there, modulo a phase ( a generic measurement will give a
probability distribution, according to the superposition principle and
all that stuff). So, if you've determined the spin of a particle to an
arbitrarily small degree of precision, then it stays the same no matter
when or how you look at it. BTW this is also true of regular angular
momentun in quantum theory. Once it's measured at j(j+1)hbar, it stays
at j(j+1)hbar.
The phrase "link up" is misleading. What happens is that the Fermi sea
becomes unstable to the formation of statistically correlated pairs of
electrons below a certain temperature. They never violate the Pauli
Exclusion principle, but the spin-statistics behavior changes so that
they can be thought of as Bosons.
"I'm not exactly sure how a Bose-Einstein condensate creates a single
quantum state, but is this more of the same?"
Again, the Slashdot article is poorly worded, or the chao who
wrote it doesn't really understand what he's talking about:
In a BEC, all the Bosons occupy one single particle
quantumstate, and you thus have a highly coherent many
particle state that is not averaged out over large length scales.
Huh????? Are you crazy, or just plain high? Black Jewry is such a small minority that we don't even CARE about you. There have been more Bene Yisraelis (both in munber and in significance) in India than there have been Jews in Ethiopia. Most people don't even know you exist. Why should we want to oppress/enslave you when you are not significant enough to be opressed/enslaved in the first place? What do you have that we would want? Sand? Why would we want your slave labor when so many of your countrymen are suffering from chronic malnutrition and couldn't do any work anyway? We have plenty of people in our own country to do menial work, we don't need people who can barely eat. You need to worry about the fundamentalist Muslims who have surrounded your country and are murdering people in your neighbor Sudan. They want you all to DIE. They want Israel wiped off the map. You want to stop a REAL threat to Jewry, focus on THEM instead you idiot.
Go feed your starving poor and make nice with Eritrea, it'll do you better than trolling on/.
"When the east india company came to set up shop, India was not a
bristling power with technologicaly advanced weapons"
This is true, but it is not all. It leads to a wrong conclusion becuse
all the facts were not presented above. When the first Europeans
arrived in/invaded India in the second millenium (The first Europeans
ever to invade India were the Macedonians), we had already been under
the feudal oppression of Islamic rule for 5 centuries. The excesses of
the Sultanate, the decadence of the Mughals and the sheer savagery of
the Bahmanis had stripped our country of her capability to defend
herself.
As a control statement, bear in mind that before the Muslims
came, India had a significantly higher standard of living. While Europe
was busy destroying itself and burning witches, The Guptas had already
brought India to her Golden Age (not a theatrical statement, but a
historical one). They had already defeated 3 scythian invasions (who
were Europeans, I might add). So The Gupta empire was sufficiently
advanced (for that time) to repel an invasion from Europe. If we go
further back to the pre-Mauryan post-Vedic period, the Malavi had
repelled the Macedonian invasion (also Europeans). Our ancestors were
able to put up a decent fight against them. The only time a European
ever succeeded intaking large portions of India in the Ancient period
was after the Mauryan Empire fell, and Demetrius invaded the country
when the interregnum began and she was in tatters (for a brief period).
So it had been done when we were strong. We were weakened by
Islam, so could not stand up to the British.
Technology is not the reason we lost to them. In
fact, if you didn't sleep through 10th standard history class, you'd
know that the armies of Shiraj-ud-Daulah were technologically at par
with the British (bought muskets and even musket factories from the
French and Dutch, and the Mughals had already brought gunpowder
& cannons from Uzbekhistan). The same was true of the Maratha
armies later on, and those of Mysore/Srirangapatnam under Tipu Sultan.
Even during the great rebellion of 1857, the rebels had British P-53s,
British Artillery and even British soldiers on their side (a large part
of the Irish regiment defected to the side of the rebels, despite the
fact that they were white soldiers). They were well trained and were
willing to fight. The British had already lost many of their able
commanders in the Crimean was in Europe, so they were weak and
vulnerable.
In all the above cases, the British eventually emerged
victorious (in some cases, even against superior numbers). The main
cause was the refusal of Muslims to fight alongside Hindus, and the
fact that many Muslims sympathized with the British (on account of the
fact that the British fed them their "Aryan Race" propaganda and told
them that since they were ethnically of persian descent, that made them
the only true "Aryans" in India and thus had the "God-Given right" to
enslave, convert or exterminate the Hindu population).
"Comparing the very distant past really does not help India today"
Every event in history is connected to every other event,
either causally or acausally. The statement above is an ignorant one.
You cannot understand the India of today unless you understand the
India of all earlier times.
"We had a socialist system where the businessmen were limping along
because"
of permit raj"
True. I don't claim to blame the whites and muslims for ALL
of our problems. That is no less stupid and ignorant than Christians
blaming Jews for all the ills of their society, or American republicans
blaming blacks, secularism, and science for all the ills of
theirs. But they did play an important part in weakening out country.
That is an inescapable fact.
The corruption of our civil service, and it IS corrupt as
hell. The government as such is not so corrupt; at least, no more so
than the Bush-Cheney Administration
Well, I doubt that most actual Ulster-Scott-Irish rednecks would have
even heard of India, let alone hate it. Most of them can't find Earth
on a map of Earth.
I think you are referring to a new phenomenon in American society
today. You see, outsourcing and foreign investments are nothing new in
America. They've been going on for many decades now. The only
difference is that previously, it was restricted to blue collar low
class jobs, which predominantly consist of the Sub-Applachian
Ulster-Scots and nobody in America cares about them in bulk, not even
the blue collars themselves (and they call us class-based, yeah right).
The wave of offshoring over the last few years,
however has affected the lower echelons of the intelligentsia and has
generated a reactionary response among them. These are people of poor
(but existent) educational background but who, nonetheless, can
construct a sentence without summarily murdering the English language
with "y'all" and "tater salad".
However, these people have been inculcated with the
ideology that they are supreme caucasian beings with some sort of
divine right to go through life without working but nonetheless getting
paid relatively high wages. They've been brainwashed by the media and
their own culture to think that it is their manifest destiny to live
out their lives as parasites. When their employers get sick of their
sloth and start outsourcing those jobs to people who ARE
willing to actually work, they react the only way that their poor
education allows them to, by touting racist canards and spreading hate
against the outsourcees on the internet.
I don't get you. If you are truly who you say who you are then you should know that I speak the truth about the virulent crimes of Caucasian Christians. They have done no better in your country, using the carrot-and-stick approach to try and convert the helpless poor in Ethiopia into Christianity, much like that cracker bitch Teresa did in mine. It is more likely that you're a redneck fibbing about your ethnic/religious origins as a ploy to gain sympathy from the general reader, in which case you are a despicable creature who perpetrates falsehoods and disrespects the suffering of Ethiopians and world Jewry in general and should be summarily silenced. Or you are some sort of Islamist radical blinded by Al-Quaeda's propaganda against Hindus, and are using canards to advance some sort of fundamentalist agenda. Your words and the tone of your posts is closer to that of uneducated poor white protestant christians south of the Mason-Dixon line in the United States. Bitter, terror-mongering , violent, inflammatory and generally uncivilised and uncooth.
Heh, it's fun watching a two-bit white trash member of the Hillbilly Herrenvolk steadily exposing himself for the savage he truly is. Watch out! Take your copy of the Turner Diaries, put on your Klansman's cloak and drive your pickup truck to the nearest jungle (don't forget to take your sister/wife and your mutant children with you). Dance around a flaming cross and preach the "God given supremacy of the white race" to a bunch of trees before the FBI and ATF break down your door, kill you and boast about eliminating another white supremacist on CNN wile I share a drink with my Jewish friends, point and laugh.Your guns are mine,hick, and there "ain't thing one you cin do anout it BOAH"!!!!
Slashdot Mirror
[quote]
Nazi Germany was not by any means capitalist
[/quote]
Sure they were. They contracted private corporations (like IBM) to work for them. Their military industrial complex was run by wealthy upper class German gentry/nobility specifically those of Nordic descent. The sole reason why the British & Americans supported them was because they were a capitalist regime (despite being called national 'socialists'). The 3rd reich was the ultimate realization of white christian capitalist idealogy, the proliferation of death for profit.
[quote]
General Pinochet, but while a free marketeer he did not reign over a free people.[/quote]
So what's your point?
Capitalist Order:
America:Murdered millions of native americans, nearly eradicating their entire race.
Enordsed third reich (see below) until it no longer became fashionable
Capitalist Order:
Britain: Murdered so many people that historians have lost count. The East India company was the most singularly barbaric regime in all of South Asia's history. Until its dissolution in 1858, it was responsible foe more cases of genocide and democide than all of the others before it put together.
Capitalist Order:
The Third Reich: Murdered 6 million Jews, Homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Handicapped and mentally retarded people, Gypsies etc. The most barbaric of white supremacist regimes was sustained by a military industrial complex that held the entire civilized world hostage.
Capitalist Order:
Imperial Japan: Murdered close to 20 million Chinese and Korean civilians
total of the above: ~ Dozens of millions over ~ 150 years.
Communist Order:
CP(M) govt, West Bengal, India: Murdered 0 people
Kerala, India: Murdered 0 people
Communist Order:
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Murdered few million under misguided regime of Stalin.
Communist Order:
Peoples Republic of China: Murdered less than 1 million (except in the minds of rednecks).
Communist(?) Order:
Khmer Rouge: Murdered many millions, but they were communist in name only, (except, again, in the white trash mind) so they don't count.
Total: ~ Few million over ~75 years
Both roughly the same, as you see. The only differences lie in the imaginations of racial defamers like the Nazis, white supremacists and the miscellaneous other anti-semites in the west who defame communism for the sole reason that Karl Marx was of Jewish heritage.
Step1:
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Step2:
Put it in your lan & boot into it
Step 3:
Launch smb4k & set your windows machine to share its entire C:\ directory
Step 4:
Look for the samba share of your c:\ in smb4k & mount it in ur linux pc
Step 5:
Update virus definitions in f-prot/bitdefender & scan share
Ste6:
Profit?
The prism_cs hostap_cs & orinoco_cs wireless chipsets are well supported by native linux drivers. My Openzaurus 3.5.3 runs a 802.11 CF card1 138067272/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl147/102-7968 491-5466514?n=507846&s=pc&v=glance)
(http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008W9PW/qid=
just fine.
Also, the ACX chipset is well supported natively (http://acx100.sourceforge.net./ Typically, TI & DLink cards run on them.The drivers above are ones that I have personally compiled &/or used.
There are many cards that work well natively &/or using ndiswrapper. Just google for the info before you buy one. USB-WLAN adapters are a bit of a problem on linux because of proprietary technology.
I'm not sure we'll see any real changes until we remove the federal funding of education from all education, especially the college grants and loans that the government seems to happy to dole out.
==
I thank the gods you're not in my country. Anyone insane enough to believe that education should be privately funded is better off inside rooms with rubber walls than out on the streets.
Privately Funded education => teaching what the owners want you to teach.
Owners => People with money
People with money in America =>
A.Legacy families in the East Coast who are all either:
1. Completely crazy religious fanatics
2. Pretending to be the above so as to keep their adoring public ignorant so that they can buy the crap these families sell to keep themselves rich
B.Rich movie producers in the west coast who also want to keep their countrymen dumb so that they can watch their cras mindless Hollywood junk
=> Reduction of education standards=> Teaching Christian theology as mainstream => No more science or anything thta involves logic
Yes, yes. Please stay in America. Don't ever come to my country. We have a marginally responsible government who keep rich people away from any education control. This is why we have the IIT's, and your equivalents are increasingly turning out to be worthless.
Why not just use lapack (http://www.netlib.org/lapack/) or essl(http://scv.bu.edu/SCV/IBMSP/ESSL-howto.html) or gsl (http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/) ? Read Numerical recipes if you want to understand what the code is doing.
So does this mean that the photino birds are winning or the Xeelee?
Like I said in my post above. There isn't enough credence for superluminality to even debate its possibility. All of the arguments above are valid only when we question the possibility of FTL. But even the issue of FTL's possibility is without meaning. It's like arguing over the veracity of a random collection of characters and asking whether it forms a word or not. The bottom line is, if I can go faster than light, I can go backwards in time and kill my own grandfather. Now, the indeterministic nature of quantum theory can allow for this (since electrons interact with their own past selves in Hartree-Fock self energy diagrams (for instance), and both the present and "past" wavefunctions are affected by each other. But it's never possible for a quantum particle to completely annihiliate its past self, hence there is no paradox in the quantum realm. However, I am not a quantum particle. I am a classical object subject to classical laws of physics. By classical laws I CAN completely annihiliate my past self if I could travel back in time. Thus I (or anyone else) cannot travel in FTL or communicate in FTL because it produces a meaningless solution.
[quote]
Aparently we can (in theory) with a large enough magnetic field and by using it to slip in to another dimension. In fact, I think we are rather ingnorant/arogant in thinking that we know that we can't go any faster than light. When people used to discuss speed, it was common knowlege that one could not go faster than 60miles per hour and still be able to breathe properly (or at all). I forsee a day when people will laugh at our naivety in relation to our perception of relativity and quantum physics.
[/quote]
Sorry, but that is just double naysaying. The above example you cited about the 60mph thing (as well as other claims now disproven, like you cant exceed the speed of sound etc.) was not based on hard facts, but vague conjecture and speculation. Furthermore, the dogma in those claims was obvious from the fact that they were deemed "impossible". Nothing is truly impossible. ButFTL acceleration is not impossible. It is completely meaningless as it simply violates causality. If FTL accn is possible, then our entire understanding of physics is almost completely wrong, and there is ample tangible evidence to suggest that is not so.
Furthermore, as a physicist, I do NOT laugh at the 'naivety' of the physicists of the last century at all, or the century before that. I know they made some mistakes and reached some false conclusions. I am also aware that everything that we know about the natural world today can be traced back to their work. Even quantum and statistical theory could not have been possible without the knowledge of Newtonian Mechanics and classical thermodynamics. If the scientists of the future look back and ridicule us for our efforts, they would be ignorant fools who dont realize that their understanding of physics has improved because of what we have discovered in this time.
I know that real scientists will never be as arrogantly clueless as you, or the folks who modded you up are, though.
Well I agree that the beginning post of the thread thread post probably BS, it does contain a kernel of truth. Its just that as projects and organizations get bigger, the execution of even the simplest of tasks involve hitherto-insignificant variables, often the most important one being lack of communication between involved parties, or lack of information.
Like, for example (this is academic, not corporate) I had to run a rather nontrivial simulation in many particle physics. Running it on my dual core SMP desktop using openMP wuld take 3-4 days. Running it on a 224-way distributive grid (to which I have access) would take maybe 3-4 hours (walltime). But my proggie needs ESSL & GSL. GSL wasn't installed on the grid frontend and I had to contact the sysadmin. He didnt know GSL was OSS and so whined about liscensing etc until I told him to bollox it all. He then had to submit a installation query to the chaps who installed stuff. He had to explain to them that the GSL library was GPL'ed and so just had to download and compile them. Then a week later they compiled & installed GSL but fscked the permissions so I couldn't read the headers (but the sysadmin could). I had to go thru a formal process of submitting tickets and what not just so they'd do "chmod -R g+r $WHEREVER" . That took a week (WTF???!?!). They just did not seem to get why I couldn't compile when they could. Finally I compile and run the proggie & it takes forever on the grid. Turns out they didn't optimize the libs for parallelization, so resubmit tickets and ask them to recompile. Another week.
Hell I culd've just ran the damn thing on my desktop & wuld've be done by now.
Well can we distinguish a workstation from a "desktop" by the CPU architecture (Intel/AMD/ppc for desktops, sparc/IBM etc for workstations)? This wouldn't be canon, of course. As far as performance is concerned, the distinction seems blurred nowadays:
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http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/article.asp
This one's a bit shady, but I'll put it in anyways:
http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx
[This proves nothing. you are still MOVING at 200mph in relation to the observer who is on the ground. and if you take 3 steps in a plane moving 200 mph, you've just traversed the same distance as the plane did...in 3 steps.
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Not when you take Lorentz Transformation into account. The above is only valid for Galilean Transformations. Look in Wikipedia or any textbook on STR
[-nope. c = the speed of light in a vaccum. c can be much much slower when in a medium...such as water. scientists have recently been able to slow the speed of light down to walking speed.
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Wrong as well.Have tocorrect you on this as well.
Light only 'moves' in vacuum. In a medium, the "Speed" of light is an averaging effect of photons scattering off of the atoms in the medium, but the atoms are still embedded in vacuuum, and the scatterred photon is also embedded in vacuum and it's speed is c at any instant of time in any frame of reference.
[The very word, RELATIVITY, indicates the complexity and the depth that must be considered when working with the laws of physics. The laws can change and DO change relative to where you are and how fast you are moving and any number of other factors.]
Either you haven't actually studied any STR, or you've been taught badly, since the statement above is utterly contrary to the basic postulate of relativity viz.
"The fundamental laws of physics are Lorentz Covariant"
Read any textbook in STR> Taylor & Wheeler, Bergmann, Resnick, you name it. It's there.Sorry, but the parent was basically right about his points
Hey is it very accurate to call it a "negative refraction"? Since N=Sqrt(e*mu) it must always be positive real or complex (in which case the wave gets damped).
If defined that way, wouldn't a -ve index violate causality?
Let me also ask how you folks define refraction. Do you define it in terms of directionality (the wave that's deflected into the other medium) or in terms of polarization & phase change? Jackson (p303) implicitly defines refraction as that part of the final solution of maxwells equations (with the incident wave as the initial conditions) with the same sign of
\arrow(k).\hat(n)
as the incident wave and the reflected wave as the one with the opposite sign. The derivation of the reflected and refracted wave isan a-posteriori one but one that is the standard. In your theoretical models, are you using a similar a-posteriori trial solution (you assume that there is 'negative refraction' and plug that solution into Maxwell's Eqns and brute force it into the boundary conditions) to get this negative refraction, or is this just a matter of semantics to call it 'negative refraction' and what you're really getting is some sort of directional backscattering effect caused by the geometry of the constituents of your material.
Also, if the reflected wave is the same as before, then wont the normal component of the dielectric displacement no longer be continuous at the interface, violating Maxwell's Equations?
Sanskrit beat German (or any other IE language for that matter) in verbal combinatorics long ago
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the particle is "spinning" exactly the same way whatever the angle you look at it : you watch it from the top, from the left, from behind, you always see it spinning clockwise, a bit like if it turns to face you. It's call the "spin" because its property _looks_ like it was spinning, but the particle doesn't really move or turn. Actually, a particle doesn't have a form, it isn't a sphere. Form is like temperature : temperature being the average speed of individual atoms inside a set of atoms, temperature only exist at a macro level, that is for a large set of atom. For a single atom, temperature doesn't exist. It's the same for form, thus for "spinning". Those are called _emergent_ properties (i.e. properties of a whole that cannot be predicted from properties of the parts), and they are meaningless for particles. In the case of this weird instant remote "action", the two linked particles are in fact a _single_ entity.
A more concise way to put it is thus:
A "particle" in quantum theory is a complete set of symmetries (commuting observables). Spin is one of those symmetries that define an elementary particle. The "clockwise" "counterclockwise" thing is an analogy borrowed from the fact that spin, like angular momentum, forms the generator group of rotations i.e the group of all possible vector spins generates the group of all possible rotations, much like angular momentum (which is what causes actual dynamical 'spinning'). By the fundamental postulates of quantum mechanics, an arbitrarily precise measurement of a physical quantity collapses a system to the eigenstate corresponding to that quantity and KEEPS it there, modulo a phase ( a generic measurement will give a probability distribution, according to the superposition principle and all that stuff). So, if you've determined the spin of a particle to an arbitrarily small degree of precision, then it stays the same no matter when or how you look at it. BTW this is also true of regular angular momentun in quantum theory. Once it's measured at j(j+1)hbar, it stays at j(j+1)hbar.
The phrase "link up" is misleading. What happens is that the Fermi sea becomes unstable to the formation of statistically correlated pairs of electrons below a certain temperature. They never violate the Pauli Exclusion principle, but the spin-statistics behavior changes so that they can be thought of as Bosons.
"I'm not exactly sure how a Bose-Einstein condensate creates a single quantum state, but is this more of the same?"
Again, the Slashdot article is poorly worded, or the chao who wrote it doesn't really understand what he's talking about:
In a BEC, all the Bosons occupy one single particle quantumstate, and you thus have a highly coherent many particle state that is not averaged out over large length scales.
High Tc Superconductors are a better candidate for that.
Earth's atmosphere reduces rocks to harmless strims of heat.
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Tell that to the Dinosaurs
Change Banks. I would.
Might want to take a look here: http://www.rule-project.org/article.php3?id_articl e=1
Huh????? Are you crazy, or just plain high? Black Jewry is such a small minority that we don't even CARE about you. There have been more Bene Yisraelis (both in munber and in significance) in India than there have been Jews in Ethiopia. Most people don't even know you exist. Why should we want to oppress/enslave you when you are not significant enough to be opressed/enslaved in the first place? What do you have that we would want? Sand? Why would we want your slave labor when so many of your countrymen are suffering from chronic malnutrition and couldn't do any work anyway? We have plenty of people in our own country to do menial work, we don't need people who can barely eat. You need to worry about the fundamentalist Muslims who have surrounded your country and are murdering people in your neighbor Sudan. They want you all to DIE. They want Israel wiped off the map. You want to stop a REAL threat to Jewry, focus on THEM instead you idiot. Go feed your starving poor and make nice with Eritrea, it'll do you better than trolling on /.
"When the east india company came to set up shop, India was not a bristling power with technologicaly advanced weapons"
This is true, but it is not all. It leads to a wrong conclusion becuse all the facts were not presented above. When the first Europeans arrived in/invaded India in the second millenium (The first Europeans ever to invade India were the Macedonians), we had already been under the feudal oppression of Islamic rule for 5 centuries. The excesses of the Sultanate, the decadence of the Mughals and the sheer savagery of the Bahmanis had stripped our country of her capability to defend herself.
As a control statement, bear in mind that before the Muslims came, India had a significantly higher standard of living. While Europe was busy destroying itself and burning witches, The Guptas had already brought India to her Golden Age (not a theatrical statement, but a historical one). They had already defeated 3 scythian invasions (who were Europeans, I might add). So The Gupta empire was sufficiently advanced (for that time) to repel an invasion from Europe. If we go further back to the pre-Mauryan post-Vedic period, the Malavi had repelled the Macedonian invasion (also Europeans). Our ancestors were able to put up a decent fight against them. The only time a European ever succeeded intaking large portions of India in the Ancient period was after the Mauryan Empire fell, and Demetrius invaded the country when the interregnum began and she was in tatters (for a brief period).
So it had been done when we were strong. We were weakened by Islam, so could not stand up to the British.
Technology is not the reason we lost to them. In fact, if you didn't sleep through 10th standard history class, you'd know that the armies of Shiraj-ud-Daulah were technologically at par with the British (bought muskets and even musket factories from the French and Dutch, and the Mughals had already brought gunpowder & cannons from Uzbekhistan). The same was true of the Maratha armies later on, and those of Mysore/Srirangapatnam under Tipu Sultan. Even during the great rebellion of 1857, the rebels had British P-53s, British Artillery and even British soldiers on their side (a large part of the Irish regiment defected to the side of the rebels, despite the fact that they were white soldiers). They were well trained and were willing to fight. The British had already lost many of their able commanders in the Crimean was in Europe, so they were weak and vulnerable.
In all the above cases, the British eventually emerged victorious (in some cases, even against superior numbers). The main cause was the refusal of Muslims to fight alongside Hindus, and the fact that many Muslims sympathized with the British (on account of the fact that the British fed them their "Aryan Race" propaganda and told them that since they were ethnically of persian descent, that made them the only true "Aryans" in India and thus had the "God-Given right" to enslave, convert or exterminate the Hindu population).
"Comparing the very distant past really does not help India today"
Every event in history is connected to every other event, either causally or acausally. The statement above is an ignorant one. You cannot understand the India of today unless you understand the India of all earlier times.
"We had a socialist system where the businessmen were limping along because"
of permit raj"
True. I don't claim to blame the whites and muslims for ALL of our problems. That is no less stupid and ignorant than Christians blaming Jews for all the ills of their society, or American republicans blaming blacks, secularism, and science for all the ills of theirs. But they did play an important part in weakening out country. That is an inescapable fact.
The corruption of our civil service, and it IS corrupt as hell. The government as such is not so corrupt; at least, no more so than the Bush-Cheney Administration
Well, I doubt that most actual Ulster-Scott-Irish rednecks would have even heard of India, let alone hate it. Most of them can't find Earth on a map of Earth.
I think you are referring to a new phenomenon in American society today. You see, outsourcing and foreign investments are nothing new in America. They've been going on for many decades now. The only difference is that previously, it was restricted to blue collar low class jobs, which predominantly consist of the Sub-Applachian Ulster-Scots and nobody in America cares about them in bulk, not even the blue collars themselves (and they call us class-based, yeah right).
The wave of offshoring over the last few years, however has affected the lower echelons of the intelligentsia and has generated a reactionary response among them. These are people of poor (but existent) educational background but who, nonetheless, can construct a sentence without summarily murdering the English language with "y'all" and "tater salad".
However, these people have been inculcated with the ideology that they are supreme caucasian beings with some sort of divine right to go through life without working but nonetheless getting paid relatively high wages. They've been brainwashed by the media and their own culture to think that it is their manifest destiny to live out their lives as parasites. When their employers get sick of their sloth and start outsourcing those jobs to people who ARE willing to actually work, they react the only way that their poor education allows them to, by touting racist canards and spreading hate against the outsourcees on the internet.
I don't get you. If you are truly who you say who you are then you should know that I speak the truth about the virulent crimes of Caucasian Christians. They have done no better in your country, using the carrot-and-stick approach to try and convert the helpless poor in Ethiopia into Christianity, much like that cracker bitch Teresa did in mine. It is more likely that you're a redneck fibbing about your ethnic/religious origins as a ploy to gain sympathy from the general reader, in which case you are a despicable creature who perpetrates falsehoods and disrespects the suffering of Ethiopians and world Jewry in general and should be summarily silenced. Or you are some sort of Islamist radical blinded by Al-Quaeda's propaganda against Hindus, and are using canards to advance some sort of fundamentalist agenda. Your words and the tone of your posts is closer to that of uneducated poor white protestant christians south of the Mason-Dixon line in the United States. Bitter, terror-mongering , violent, inflammatory and generally uncivilised and uncooth.
Heh, it's fun watching a two-bit white trash member of the Hillbilly Herrenvolk steadily exposing himself for the savage he truly is. Watch out! Take your copy of the Turner Diaries, put on your Klansman's cloak and drive your pickup truck to the nearest jungle (don't forget to take your sister/wife and your mutant children with you). Dance around a flaming cross and preach the "God given supremacy of the white race" to a bunch of trees before the FBI and ATF break down your door, kill you and boast about eliminating another white supremacist on CNN wile I share a drink with my Jewish friends, point and laugh.Your guns are mine,hick, and there "ain't thing one you cin do anout it BOAH"!!!!