By Godel's second incompleteness theorem, we can't know that mathematics is consistent. Godel's theorem shows that there can't be any complete and consistent theories in mathematics. Imagine basing your view of the world on a system that you know cannot be complete or consistent.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Godel's theorem states that mathematics (among other rule-based systems) can not be both consistent and complete, but can be either consistent or complete.
In mathematics, nothing is accepted into the body of "true" rules unless it is proven by logical deduction from other "true" rules, and so on back to axioms. By design, this is consistent. The thing that Godel's theorem says it that there <b>must be</b> other rules that are "true" in the same sense but can not be arrived at through logical deduction. Mathematics is incomplete because it will never logically deduce all of the true rules.<p>
Your incorrect interpretation of Godel's theorem led you to believe that you knew why mathematicians go insane. Maybe they go insane for being chronically misunderstood.
I will be among the first to finally admit that Katz's geek-anthropology-fantasy-world expertise is actually good for something. He may be a delusional self-important twink, but he appears to be more of a sincere activist than most other/.'ers.
(Their book division is already profitable, with their other divisions not far behind)
I imagine their book division is very profitable when separated from their marketing divison. However, separating the "Accounts Receivable" from "Accounts Payable" and saying that one of your divisions is profitable is not exactly the most sincere business practice.
XFS contained a fair bit of proprietary code from vendors other than SGI. All of that had to be searched for, removed, and replaced. Not a trivial task.
In speaking with an SGI rep last week, he said that the cleaning out of proprietary code didn't take as long as convincing SGI's lawyers that the proprietary code had, indeed, been stripped out of XFS. The company brass and engineers have pushed to open source this since it was announced last year. It's not their fault it has been delayed so long.
a real scientist wrote a piece of fiction which (iirc) implied that if gravity could be modulated we would be able to communicate at the speed of light squared.
Yes, ch-chuck, YDRC. As any real scientist knows, the speed of light in natural units is 1. In fact, I have sitting on my desk a $14 Panasonic clock radio that takes advantage of this physics loophole to receive Rush Limbaugh at the speed of light cubed.
In all seriousness though, when you square a dimensioned quantity, like velocity, you square the dimension as well. The number you then get is not a velocity. Also, by using different units, such as megaparsecs per femtosecond, the square of the speed of light is (numerically) smaller than the unsquared speed of light.
Rectifying current is a nonlinear operation, so it introduces harmonics. If you know how to calculate Fourier series, compare the (single) component of Sin[60 Hz * t ] with the spectrum of Abs[ Sin[60 Hz * t ]. You will find the strongest component at 120Hz, and NO component at 60Hz.
The flicker, by my hypothesis, is due to incomplete rectification, which would allow some 60Hz component to sneak through. For example look at the spectrum of the slightly perturbed problem Abs[ d + Sin[60 Hz * t] ], where "d" is some small DC offset. The bigger the offset (i.e. the more shoddy the rectification) the bigger the 60Hz component.
This could explain why older and cheaper lights begin to flicker, since their rectifying components may be poorly made and deteriorating.
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Sorry, Larry, but that was me.
Quid modcoaching your own posts, PacoTaco....
Wow! what an imagination! You don't play many video games, do you?
You have made your case well. You're an idiot.
Push, pop, push, pop....
By Godel's second incompleteness theorem, we can't know that mathematics is consistent. Godel's theorem shows that there can't be any complete and consistent theories in mathematics. Imagine basing your view of the world on a system that you know cannot be complete or consistent.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Godel's theorem states that mathematics (among other rule-based systems) can not be both consistent and complete, but can be either consistent or complete.
In mathematics, nothing is accepted into the body of "true" rules unless it is proven by logical deduction from other "true" rules, and so on back to axioms. By design, this is consistent. The thing that Godel's theorem says it that there <b>must be</b> other rules that are "true" in the same sense but can not be arrived at through logical deduction. Mathematics is incomplete because it will never logically deduce all of the true rules.<p>
Your incorrect interpretation of Godel's theorem led you to believe that you knew why mathematicians go insane. Maybe they go insane for being chronically misunderstood.
Tux isn't khttpd.
Given the open source love affair with negative-affirming self-referential acronyms, shouldn't that read Tux usn't xhttpd?
I'm reminded of a Dennis Miller quote: "Think of the average person in America. Now realize that 50% of America is dumber than that."
George Carlin, actually. Unless Dennis Miller stole it. A sobering observation, nonetheless.
Especially if you are on the USAF's list as a Belligerent Emulous Enemy Yearning Overtly To Conquer Humanity, and you have an Armed Subversive Swarm.
You'd better look out before they put the SHMAC down on your ASS, BEEYOTCH.
I will be among the first to finally admit that Katz's geek-anthropology-fantasy-world expertise is actually good for something. He may be a delusional self-important twink, but he appears to be more of a sincere activist than most other /.'ers.
(Their book division is already profitable, with their other divisions not far behind)
I imagine their book division is very profitable when separated from their marketing divison. However, separating the "Accounts Receivable" from "Accounts Payable" and saying that one of your divisions is profitable is not exactly the most sincere business practice.
In speaking with an SGI rep last week, he said that the cleaning out of proprietary code didn't take as long as convincing SGI's lawyers that the proprietary code had, indeed, been stripped out of XFS. The company brass and engineers have pushed to open source this since it was announced last year. It's not their fault it has been delayed so long.
a real scientist wrote a piece of fiction which (iirc) implied that if gravity could be modulated we would be able to communicate at the speed of light squared.
Yes, ch-chuck, YDRC. As any real scientist knows, the speed of light in natural units is 1. In fact, I have sitting on my desk a $14 Panasonic clock radio that takes advantage of this physics loophole to receive Rush Limbaugh at the speed of light cubed.
In all seriousness though, when you square a dimensioned quantity, like velocity, you square the dimension as well. The number you then get is not a velocity. Also, by using different units, such as megaparsecs per femtosecond, the square of the speed of light is (numerically) smaller than the unsquared speed of light.
TMTOWTDI
Rectifying current is a nonlinear operation, so it introduces harmonics. If you know how to calculate Fourier series, compare the (single) component of Sin[60 Hz * t ] with the spectrum of Abs[ Sin[60 Hz * t ]. You will find the strongest component at 120Hz, and NO component at 60Hz.
The flicker, by my hypothesis, is due to incomplete rectification, which would allow some 60Hz component to sneak through. For example look at the spectrum of the slightly perturbed problem Abs[ d + Sin[60 Hz * t] ], where "d" is some small DC offset. The bigger the offset (i.e. the more shoddy the rectification) the bigger the 60Hz component.
This could explain why older and cheaper lights begin to flicker, since their rectifying components may be poorly made and deteriorating.
Red Hat has done a pretty good job of defining itself somewhere between a "Heinz ketchup" and a "Webster's dictionary."