From TFA: Mathematicians study symmetries in higher dimensions. E_8 has 248 dimensions.
"What's attractive about studying E_8 is that it's as complicated as symmetry can get. Mathematics can almost always offer another example that's harder than the one you're looking at now, but for Lie groups E_8 is the hardest one," Vogan said.
Even if he actually wants books, I don't see why he even needs to ask here. You have *NO* idea how many times I've answered this question before. On various forums, on newsgroups and what not. I could do a lengthy writeup about which books and why, or copy/paste a canned answer every time, but I've essentially tired of answering it over and over again. And so forth...
Dude (and I *never* say "dude"), LIGHTEN UP! Do you know why I have *NO* idea how many times you have answered this question before? Because I have no desire to slog through smug answers from pompous asses written in obscure forums and clique-ish newsgroups. I also don't know what you may have written on a napkin late at night and washed by accident the next day, no matter how profound it was. Slashdot has visibility that your forums and newsgroups don't. Why not post a link to one of your many, many lengthy write-ups, or even to one of your canned cut and pasted answers. You've tired of answering the question (link, please), but not of holding forth about the things you've grown tired of? Shut up.
The next time I want a smug answer from a pompous ass, I'll just turn on CNN. Or talk to myself. But I won't criticize this guy for asking a question that many people are interested in at least discussing.
He apparently doesn't know much about carburetors, either.
...a tiny carburetor injects gasoline into the compressed air...
Wrong. An tiny fuel injector injects fuel (oddly enough). A carburetor would have allowed fuel to be drawn into the airstream on the way in, before the air was compressed.
Note that this has nothing to do with Communism or capitalism, which is the thesis the author's trying to build. The R&D regimes are actually identical: invent something militarily useful and it will dissappear from public knowledge.
Absolutely right! Now pardon mee for my brevity, but I must hasten to thee General-Store, where I shall awaite the next Express Pony bounde for the Slashe-Daut Message Barne--you Communist Hack.
But I had been forced to read so many books for school that were just terrible I didn't have much interest.
I know exactly what you mean. When I was in High School, I was supposed to read Alan Sillitoe's Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Hal Borland's When the Legends Die, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. These were all terrible books, and I never got more than a few pages into any of them.
I dropped out of High School.
Years later, I bought these and several others and read them just for my own purposes. Thank God I waited! The books had gotten much better by then.
And it's not just Global Warping. The increasingly monocultured Federally-funded research apparatus has been screaming for years that the verdict is in on Global Cooling, AIDS, homosexuality, and much more. Wrong on all counts. The interesting thing about this article is not that it challenges the politically homogeneous gospel of science, but that it does so on only a single point. Perhaps the resistance to Global Warming Bullshit is caused by a fatigue with decades of Officially Blessed Bullshit, not just the recent stuff.
Remember the hysteria from the 1980's? Weren't we all supposed to be dead from AIDS by now? Unless of course, it actually turned out to be a disease almost exclusively associated with risky behavior, that is.
And speaking of behavior, homosexuality is a one-hundred-percent behavior-evidenced phenomenon. Tell me which part of the brain was identified as causing homosexuality? Or which sequence of DNA? Which hormone? That's right. Homosexuality, much like stealing or race-car driving, is only proven through behavior. Unlike, say, race or sex, which are quite clearly immutable genetic characteristics.
And before you get all smack-down on me, at least do it for the right reason. I am NOT anti-gay, but I am pro-truth. And saying that any of these things are settled matters of science is simply dishonest.
Why is it that the solution for global warming is the same as it was for global cooling? Why is it that all of these supposed disasters share this feature alone: that the solution is always a wish-list of leftist political, social, or economic theory imposed by force of law upon as much of the world as possible? Meanwhile, there is a real war going on which gets less coverage than dead white women, when there are dead white women to be had, anyway.
The left is distracting itself from the real problems we face in this world which are indeed man-made, but have nothing to do with the weather. Who is Bjorn Lomborg? Who is Omar Hassan al-Bashir? Which name should you recognize?
Global Warming, if it is a real problem, is being obscured by a genuine epidemic: Global Wanking. Finish this quote: "All sound and fury..."
Watch the 1+1 video, and you'll see that the stacked dominoes are actually glued together! No fair!
Details: His right hand pushes over a domino chain which knocks out a link needed to complete the left-hand output. But in order to reach the chain for the left-hand output, he crosses the chain for the right-hand output, which then has a gap. This gap is bridged by GLUING a yellow domino on top of a red one, on top of a blue one.
Minors can buy refreshing beverages from many vendors. This guy's refreshing beverage is specifically regulated due to its artistic content. This art form is called 'alcohol'.
This is an incomplete application of the precautionary principle--even though we haven't proven the whole process, shouldn't we go ahead and take action to prevent disaster?
The problem is that even if the whole disaster scenario is valid, and even if we implement every mitigating measure, the result of our action will be very little positive impact on the environment, while simultaneously crippling the economy of the entire world.
Kyoto is madness--it is a wealth transfer mechanism from DCs to LDCs, and as if that weren't enough, it won't even do what people think it will. For ruinous effort, we would get negligible return.
If the parent followed his precautionary principle to its logical end, he would feel less comfortable with the prescriptions of the Global Warmingistas, he would be more enthusiastic about contrarian articles such as this, and he would be a more scientific thinker, not less.
A more complete aplication of the precautionary principle would say--since we don't really know what's causing any of this, although we do have several priomising theories, we shouldn't go wrecking the world economy, without which, I assure you, no further progress will be made. On anything.
The problem is that a generation of Americans (speaking for my own country) has been pumped so full of non-judgmentalism, relativism, and revisionism by public schools that a majority of us can no longer discern it from shine-ola.
If every point of view is equally valid, and all persons equally deserving of respect, then why should we bother learning how to think (as an older education would have it), or even what to think (as a modern education would have it)? Why should we bother learning the difference between lies and mistakes, between manifest and latent properties, or between good guys and bad guys? That's right--a long time ago, students troubled themselves to elucidate the natures of Truth, Beauty, and Justice. Now we get classes on S&M.
This viral marketing "crisis" may be interesting, but it is the least engaging symptom of a very real problem.
Oh, thank Heavens he cleared up that mystery for us. This has been the longest-telegraphed punch since...since... well, since Hillary also "announced" that she was running.
France has fallen to the Bitskrieg! Long said to be secure behind the impregnable Maginot-soft Windows line, the French will now have to face the humiliation of watching Richard M. Stallman parade down the Champs d'USB.
If it were good for Linux, Novell would have paid Microsoft instead of the other way around.
This will be another example of Microsoft's very successful "take and break" strategy. Once SuSE is up to speed and working well with Windows abominations such as Active Directory, other distributions will be the ones which are somehow not compatible with the "SuSE Linux Standard". Once Microsoft has killed off the other major distributions, they will quietly break compatibility even with SuSE, in a flood of tiny little things that just have to be that way, because of the structure of the WIndows kernel (or some damned thing).
The only reason we are not all using Java desktops with a common intermediate layer is the Microsoft "take and break" implementation of the JVM.
So far the best rationale I have seen is for vacuum manufacturing. Fine, that's a good application for this thing, but does it work economically? How much do you pay a guy to operate the vacuum thingy here on Earth? Now, no matter how much better the vacuum on the moon, how much are you willing to pay (including things like transportation and lodging) for him to do it on the moon?
Just existing up there requires a Ph. D. in Not Fucking Up the Hab.
I got to thinking about why original and creative movies are (it seems) better-received than games. Movies are passive, but gaming requires action from the user, and now we're in the realm of habits and comfortable ways.
I believe that the majority of the problem is this: How do I know if I will like a game, if I have never played one like it before? I don't think that any of us consciously consider that question (as it's pretty stupid when you ask it out loud). Most people are simply more comfortable with what they know, and will give that a lot of weight, even at the expense of new and more enjoyable features.
Helping each other for no reason? Is that what I was doing on Wikipedia? I thought that I was engaging in a hobby I enjoy, which is of benefit to me. I thought I was maintaining a system which I find useful, which is of benefit to me. I thought I was testing my own knowledge and plagia^H^H^H^H^Hresearch skill against others who comment in the same areas; all of which benefits me.
We are all free to engage in behavior which we find pleasing. Please don't call yours altruism when in fact, you derive pleasure from it. Few things could be more thoroughly greedy. It's like bragging about how humble you are.
You sound like you were beaten up by an Objectivist in college.
"Really, whenever someone professes such hostility toward an old dead woman who wrote turgid novels, I can only assume that it is out of indolence, a mere reading of Walker's book, and a lack of any real training in Objectivism, etc..."
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Mine goes to E_11.
Dude (and I *never* say "dude"), LIGHTEN UP! Do you know why I have *NO* idea how many times you have answered this question before? Because I have no desire to slog through smug answers from pompous asses written in obscure forums and clique-ish newsgroups. I also don't know what you may have written on a napkin late at night and washed by accident the next day, no matter how profound it was. Slashdot has visibility that your forums and newsgroups don't. Why not post a link to one of your many, many lengthy write-ups, or even to one of your canned cut and pasted answers. You've tired of answering the question (link, please), but not of holding forth about the things you've grown tired of? Shut up.
The next time I want a smug answer from a pompous ass, I'll just turn on CNN. Or talk to myself. But I won't criticize this guy for asking a question that many people are interested in at least discussing.
...and once again in contrast to a bunch of trucks. The Timeless Debate...
Wrong. An tiny fuel injector injects fuel (oddly enough). A carburetor would have allowed fuel to be drawn into the airstream on the way in, before the air was compressed.
Note that this has nothing to do with Communism or capitalism, which is the thesis the author's trying to build. The R&D regimes are actually identical: invent something militarily useful and it will dissappear from public knowledge.
Absolutely right! Now pardon mee for my brevity, but I must hasten to thee General-Store, where I shall awaite the next Express Pony bounde for the Slashe-Daut Message Barne--you Communist Hack.
I know exactly what you mean. When I was in High School, I was supposed to read Alan Sillitoe's Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Hal Borland's When the Legends Die, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. These were all terrible books, and I never got more than a few pages into any of them.
I dropped out of High School.
Years later, I bought these and several others and read them just for my own purposes. Thank God I waited! The books had gotten much better by then.
"Soon, our vehicles will all talk to each other."
Soon, our vehicles will all get tickets for driving while talking on the phone.
Remember the hysteria from the 1980's? Weren't we all supposed to be dead from AIDS by now? Unless of course, it actually turned out to be a disease almost exclusively associated with risky behavior, that is.
And speaking of behavior, homosexuality is a one-hundred-percent behavior-evidenced phenomenon. Tell me which part of the brain was identified as causing homosexuality? Or which sequence of DNA? Which hormone? That's right. Homosexuality, much like stealing or race-car driving, is only proven through behavior. Unlike, say, race or sex, which are quite clearly immutable genetic characteristics.
And before you get all smack-down on me, at least do it for the right reason. I am NOT anti-gay, but I am pro-truth. And saying that any of these things are settled matters of science is simply dishonest.
Why is it that the solution for global warming is the same as it was for global cooling? Why is it that all of these supposed disasters share this feature alone: that the solution is always a wish-list of leftist political, social, or economic theory imposed by force of law upon as much of the world as possible? Meanwhile, there is a real war going on which gets less coverage than dead white women, when there are dead white women to be had, anyway.
The left is distracting itself from the real problems we face in this world which are indeed man-made, but have nothing to do with the weather. Who is Bjorn Lomborg? Who is Omar Hassan al-Bashir? Which name should you recognize?
Global Warming, if it is a real problem, is being obscured by a genuine epidemic: Global Wanking. Finish this quote: "All sound and fury..."
I believe you are correct. Lack of the proper accent has caused many men to miss out on French boobies.
Heh. The CAPTCHA for this post was "airbag".
He just smiled.
So I guess I'll have to look into it.
Meanwhile, perhaps TFA is familiar with rsync?
Watch the 1+1 video, and you'll see that the stacked dominoes are actually glued together! No fair!
Details: His right hand pushes over a domino chain which knocks out a link needed to complete the left-hand output. But in order to reach the chain for the left-hand output, he crosses the chain for the right-hand output, which then has a gap. This gap is bridged by GLUING a yellow domino on top of a red one, on top of a blue one.
Minors can buy refreshing beverages from many vendors. This guy's refreshing beverage is specifically regulated due to its artistic content. This art form is called 'alcohol'.
The problem is that even if the whole disaster scenario is valid, and even if we implement every mitigating measure, the result of our action will be very little positive impact on the environment, while simultaneously crippling the economy of the entire world.
Kyoto is madness--it is a wealth transfer mechanism from DCs to LDCs, and as if that weren't enough, it won't even do what people think it will. For ruinous effort, we would get negligible return.
If the parent followed his precautionary principle to its logical end, he would feel less comfortable with the prescriptions of the Global Warmingistas, he would be more enthusiastic about contrarian articles such as this, and he would be a more scientific thinker, not less.
A more complete aplication of the precautionary principle would say--since we don't really know what's causing any of this, although we do have several priomising theories, we shouldn't go wrecking the world economy, without which, I assure you, no further progress will be made. On anything.
The problem is that a generation of Americans (speaking for my own country) has been pumped so full of non-judgmentalism, relativism, and revisionism by public schools that a majority of us can no longer discern it from shine-ola.
If every point of view is equally valid, and all persons equally deserving of respect, then why should we bother learning how to think (as an older education would have it), or even what to think (as a modern education would have it)? Why should we bother learning the difference between lies and mistakes, between manifest and latent properties, or between good guys and bad guys? That's right--a long time ago, students troubled themselves to elucidate the natures of Truth, Beauty, and Justice. Now we get classes on S&M.
This viral marketing "crisis" may be interesting, but it is the least engaging symptom of a very real problem.
Oh, thank Heavens he cleared up that mystery for us. This has been the longest-telegraphed punch since...since... well, since Hillary also "announced" that she was running.
France has fallen to the Bitskrieg! Long said to be secure behind the impregnable Maginot-soft Windows line, the French will now have to face the humiliation of watching Richard M. Stallman parade down the Champs d'USB.
Ooh. Good Catch!
This will be another example of Microsoft's very successful "take and break" strategy. Once SuSE is up to speed and working well with Windows abominations such as Active Directory, other distributions will be the ones which are somehow not compatible with the "SuSE Linux Standard". Once Microsoft has killed off the other major distributions, they will quietly break compatibility even with SuSE, in a flood of tiny little things that just have to be that way, because of the structure of the WIndows kernel (or some damned thing).
The only reason we are not all using Java desktops with a common intermediate layer is the Microsoft "take and break" implementation of the JVM.
Just existing up there requires a Ph. D. in Not Fucking Up the Hab.
And for what? He-3? Try again.
This is a solution urgently seeking a problem. Sounds like somebody's Master's Thesis being taken out for a walk.
I got to thinking about why original and creative movies are (it seems) better-received than games. Movies are passive, but gaming requires action from the user, and now we're in the realm of habits and comfortable ways.
I believe that the majority of the problem is this: How do I know if I will like a game, if I have never played one like it before? I don't think that any of us consciously consider that question (as it's pretty stupid when you ask it out loud). Most people are simply more comfortable with what they know, and will give that a lot of weight, even at the expense of new and more enjoyable features.
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We are all free to engage in behavior which we find pleasing. Please don't call yours altruism when in fact, you derive pleasure from it. Few things could be more thoroughly greedy. It's like bragging about how humble you are.
You sound like you were beaten up by an Objectivist in college.
"Really, whenever someone professes such hostility toward an old dead woman who wrote turgid novels, I can only assume that it is out of indolence, a mere reading of Walker's book, and a lack of any real training in Objectivism, etc..."
Lighten up. Or you'll get Piekoff on your case.
You are right, I believe. The two H atoms are almost 120 degrees apart w/re the central O atom. Polarity (IANAC) does the rest.