People use their brains for the making of money. I know it's stupid, but it is how the world is going at the moment.
An equally stupid thing is when people like you try to express reality to these stupid people. Remember, this is only slashdot. Anything that is said, no matter how profound, will be forgotten in about 15 minutes, unless you really hit a nerve.
....at which point, it will be remembered for 25 minutes.
Schools in America are the same thing they were back in the day when people learned things. So the question is not, "How to make school suck less". It should be, "How to make students learn", which IMHO, is the job of the school. Catch-22?
Really, I could go off on a really long shpeel on this, but if you look at the condition of America now, you might see that there is a much bigger problem, that this education thing is just a small part of.
I can't agree with you more. By doing things that we think should work, and finding that they do not work, then we learn that we were wrong in our thinking. But there comes a place where these things no longer apply. A good example of this is like when you get married to that hot chick that's so sweet. Eventually (if you're lucky) you find out that the whole time, you didn't marry her for her looks or her sweetness, but for what can only be termed as "Love".
I think that science can explain things only so far. Now that we're dealing with the tiny tiny particles of the universe, it becomes more important to realise the bigger picture. If not, we are basking in our own glory of what we think is, and what our current understanding of the universe can produce. That is only horizonal movement. What we really want from science is verticle movement.
We live in a world that already has lasers and superconductors and scanning tunneling microscopes and MRI machines and nuclear reactors, and you're claiming that we don't understand enough about quantum mechanics to make useful devices that depend on it?
Just because it works, doesn't mean we understand it. A good example of this is gravity. We don't understand it at all, but we heed to it.
You can't send any bits over the internet without the possibility of them being watched in transit. They're carried over networks you can't trust.
If you value your privacy that highly, use SSL to an anonymizing proxy. Other than that, assume that the feds and anybody else is watching your packets, whether you're on an airplane or not.
I can show you how gravity works, if you can show me how anyone uses it.
No need to get all bent outta shape mate. All I was saying is that we (man-kind) knows so little about how things work on the quantam level, that it seems unlikely that we will be successful in using it for creation or storage any time in the near future. I'm not bashing scientists. Hell, they're trying. It's just that I would suggest something different at this time.
They thought of doing that, but soon ditched the thought after seeing what happened after the whole Rodney King beating, knowing what they were going to do to the Indians.
Ouch man, come on, think about that for a while. Aftrer all, he is human.
No really, I've always said this about people who get busted hacking or sending spam illegally. They should have to serve some sort of community service, like sitting down at a desk for 8 hours a day, fixing, and removing virus' and spyware for free. Wouldn't that be cool? You could bring your AOL box that is ripe with spyware and virus' on it to this fregin 1337 h4xor, and he would have to fix it and make your world easier.
I wondered the same thing. The only thing I could come up with was the rockets that are dropped off, and wind blowing the exaust away from America. That and you have to remember that the shuttle's chance of launching being = to the time of a hurricane is slim.
Once I was in an airplane, approaching for landing. The weather was bad, rain, wind and such. The pilot attempted to land the plane, and we got about 100 ft. off the ground, but then suddenly, the plane pulled up and we were going back up. The pilot came on and said that he could not land the plane due to lack of a good visual. Most of the people on the plane were on business, and got mad. I over-heard one angry man bitching about not being on time. The flight attendant told the man that this was one of the most experienced pilots that flew for whatever airline that was. The man said "well then why couldn't he land the fucking plane then!" The flight attendant said, "If he wasn't so experienced, he wouldn't have attempted a landing at all sir."
Make of it what you will. But I think NASA doesn't need to please anyone, except the people that will be on board the shuttle.
This tool isn't the endall be-all of the universe, it is a rough guess, and I had said you came across whiney only because I felt you had too much expectation that it would answer all the questions of origin that are as of yet unresolved, and deals specifically with macro objects and how matter is distributed.
See, this is the thing. Scientists get their computers, and run with it. I don't think they were trying to explain the begining of time, but watch and see, I'll bet this is only the begining of our current "scientists" branching out into another rhelm of lazyness.
Really, if you look at it, the whole of the cosmic worls was realised by the real scientists/mystics of the past. Sadly, the Chatholic church had a problem with people developing these skills, once better technology came into play, like bending glass to make telescopes and such. Many inventions that changed the world we live in were made without any help from computers.
It all boils down to the individual "inventor" and how much he is pulling from inside himself/herself, and not from what they expect from outside.
I live in Alabama, and am about to experience another fregin hurricane. With all the technology we have, we cannot predict when hurricanes will strike. But there is an age-old way to pretty much predict it by the way pine cones develope. I remember someone told me back in 2000, that in 2004 and 2005 we would start seeing a lot more heavy-wind hurricanes. Last year, we had 2 catigory 4 hurricanes, and this year, ALREADY we have a catigory 4 (but it will probably get to a 5). This was done with pine cones.
I use computers every day. They are useful tools for all kinds of things. The problem is dependance on them.
If what you are measuring is how far the ball will go, will it go over the wall, does NOT need to know anything about the pitcher's mound or release hight, how fast it was pitched.. all that is made moot by the bat
Try hitting a ball over the wall by just throwing it up in the air, and then swinging. You need that oposition to really smash it out of the park, as even baseballs do bounce under extreme pressure. If you unravel a baseball, there is a little cork in the middle.
This is only a problem in the computer industry. We don't want our "keystrokes" to be monitored. Waaa Waaa Waaa! What about all workers in the construction field? They have all of their work monitored, and the results of everything they do, on the job, on break, all result in either a pat-on-the-back, or a good ass-chewing. I can sit here at work and type all this meaningless shit on slashdot, and my boss will not ever care. But if I tried this shit out on a job somewhere, forget it. If your boss wants to log your keystrokes, let'm. What's the big deal?
Well, if you figure that the infected computers are bought and sold in the underground, as "bots", and that there is usually some extortion involved, then that would surely bring the numbers up by 1000%.
Seriously, though, you can certainly predict the path of a baseball thrown into the air without knowing which factory made it and what kind of cow was used for the leather.
Yes, of coarse you can, but you must know for sure sertain things. Like: It came from the pitcher's mount, from a release height of 4 feet. Speed is important along with spin, and angle. It then got hit with a wooden bat. Swing is important, along with, again, weight of the bat. Did the ball hit the outer-most part of the bat? or the inner, or middle? Then another important thing would be the way the bat struck the ball, did it hit the top of the ball making it spin downward?
All of this can be viewed backwards to reveal everything. But what if you didn't have a tape of it? What if it was millions of years later? If the ball is still spinning around somewhere in space, then you can project where you think it would have come from, but you wouldn't know the thing that propelled it, because the man that hit it is dead, and in fact the whole game that was once called "baseball" is no longer understood.
The whole pont I was trying to make is that the quantem world has not yet been related to the larger-scale world that we live in, and the laws are different as well. I still can't RTFA, so I still don't know how long they were able to go back. Have you RTFA? If so, maybe you can help me out with this instead of calling me whiney.
I'll bet he will go for the most. He's just so usefull. I guess if you bought R2-D2 then you'd have to get C3PO as well. They're like, buddies and stuff.
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...just imagine the possibilities.
Why do all that, when you can just read slashdot, where everyone is a teacher.
An equally stupid thing is when people like you try to express reality to these stupid people. Remember, this is only slashdot. Anything that is said, no matter how profound, will be forgotten in about 15 minutes, unless you really hit a nerve.
....at which point, it will be remembered for 25 minutes.
Dude, you're getting a cobble-stone mat!
Really, I could go off on a really long shpeel on this, but if you look at the condition of America now, you might see that there is a much bigger problem, that this education thing is just a small part of.
I think that science can explain things only so far. Now that we're dealing with the tiny tiny particles of the universe, it becomes more important to realise the bigger picture. If not, we are basking in our own glory of what we think is, and what our current understanding of the universe can produce. That is only horizonal movement. What we really want from science is verticle movement.
We live in a world that already has lasers and superconductors and scanning tunneling microscopes and MRI machines and nuclear reactors, and you're claiming that we don't understand enough about quantum mechanics to make useful devices that depend on it?
Just because it works, doesn't mean we understand it. A good example of this is gravity. We don't understand it at all, but we heed to it.
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...writing in my slashdot journal once.
No need to get all bent outta shape mate. All I was saying is that we (man-kind) knows so little about how things work on the quantam level, that it seems unlikely that we will be successful in using it for creation or storage any time in the near future. I'm not bashing scientists. Hell, they're trying. It's just that I would suggest something different at this time.
Rule-a #1: If bomb is already on plane, wiretap does no good.
Rule-a #2: 9 minutes is enough time to blow up anything.
Shouldn't we at least have understood laws of physics that properly govern the quantam world, before we try to use it?
Fools! This is Slashdot. 'Crash' means "Sudden and unanticapated halt of computing ability"
They thought of doing that, but soon ditched the thought after seeing what happened after the whole Rodney King beating, knowing what they were going to do to the Indians.
Since this is still experimental, the flights carrying the cameras will, of coarse, be maned by monkeys.
Nerds use gas, don't they?
No really, I've always said this about people who get busted hacking or sending spam illegally. They should have to serve some sort of community service, like sitting down at a desk for 8 hours a day, fixing, and removing virus' and spyware for free. Wouldn't that be cool? You could bring your AOL box that is ripe with spyware and virus' on it to this fregin 1337 h4xor, and he would have to fix it and make your world easier.
...oh wait, now I understand, he has a MAGIC JOHNSON!!! I'm always the last to figure it out.
I wondered the same thing. The only thing I could come up with was the rockets that are dropped off, and wind blowing the exaust away from America. That and you have to remember that the shuttle's chance of launching being = to the time of a hurricane is slim.
You forgot "the Lawnmower man"
Make of it what you will. But I think NASA doesn't need to please anyone, except the people that will be on board the shuttle.
See, this is the thing. Scientists get their computers, and run with it. I don't think they were trying to explain the begining of time, but watch and see, I'll bet this is only the begining of our current "scientists" branching out into another rhelm of lazyness.
Really, if you look at it, the whole of the cosmic worls was realised by the real scientists/mystics of the past. Sadly, the Chatholic church had a problem with people developing these skills, once better technology came into play, like bending glass to make telescopes and such. Many inventions that changed the world we live in were made without any help from computers.
It all boils down to the individual "inventor" and how much he is pulling from inside himself/herself, and not from what they expect from outside.
I live in Alabama, and am about to experience another fregin hurricane. With all the technology we have, we cannot predict when hurricanes will strike. But there is an age-old way to pretty much predict it by the way pine cones develope. I remember someone told me back in 2000, that in 2004 and 2005 we would start seeing a lot more heavy-wind hurricanes. Last year, we had 2 catigory 4 hurricanes, and this year, ALREADY we have a catigory 4 (but it will probably get to a 5). This was done with pine cones.
I use computers every day. They are useful tools for all kinds of things. The problem is dependance on them.
If what you are measuring is how far the ball will go, will it go over the wall, does NOT need to know anything about the pitcher's mound or release hight, how fast it was pitched.. all that is made moot by the bat
Try hitting a ball over the wall by just throwing it up in the air, and then swinging. You need that oposition to really smash it out of the park, as even baseballs do bounce under extreme pressure. If you unravel a baseball, there is a little cork in the middle.
This is only a problem in the computer industry. We don't want our "keystrokes" to be monitored. Waaa Waaa Waaa! What about all workers in the construction field? They have all of their work monitored, and the results of everything they do, on the job, on break, all result in either a pat-on-the-back, or a good ass-chewing. I can sit here at work and type all this meaningless shit on slashdot, and my boss will not ever care. But if I tried this shit out on a job somewhere, forget it. If your boss wants to log your keystrokes, let'm. What's the big deal?
Well, if you figure that the infected computers are bought and sold in the underground, as "bots", and that there is usually some extortion involved, then that would surely bring the numbers up by 1000%.
Yes, of coarse you can, but you must know for sure sertain things. Like: It came from the pitcher's mount, from a release height of 4 feet. Speed is important along with spin, and angle. It then got hit with a wooden bat. Swing is important, along with, again, weight of the bat. Did the ball hit the outer-most part of the bat? or the inner, or middle? Then another important thing would be the way the bat struck the ball, did it hit the top of the ball making it spin downward?
All of this can be viewed backwards to reveal everything. But what if you didn't have a tape of it? What if it was millions of years later? If the ball is still spinning around somewhere in space, then you can project where you think it would have come from, but you wouldn't know the thing that propelled it, because the man that hit it is dead, and in fact the whole game that was once called "baseball" is no longer understood.
The whole pont I was trying to make is that the quantem world has not yet been related to the larger-scale world that we live in, and the laws are different as well. I still can't RTFA, so I still don't know how long they were able to go back. Have you RTFA? If so, maybe you can help me out with this instead of calling me whiney.
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I'll bet he will go for the most. He's just so usefull. I guess if you bought R2-D2 then you'd have to get C3PO as well. They're like, buddies and stuff.