Article 19: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
"he doesn't seem in a big hurry to have his claims validated"
Mills is clearly a pretty smart guy. He knows he has a snowball's chance in hell of convincing the scientific community that he is right and they are all wrong. So he is building a business himself to develop and sell his inventions rather than whining that no-one will believe him.
Nevertheless, as someone else posted, he has submitted materials and his power generating processes to many independent labs for testing and he has yet to be thrown in jail.
Dr. Anderson says that if Mills is right then "Everything we know about everything would be a bunch of nonsense. That's why I'm so sure that it's a fraud."
A common and understandable reaction perhaps, but not a scientific one. A phenomenon that is impossible according to current theories must, a priori, be fraud or nonsense goes the argument. In fact a proven phenemenon that is theoretically impossible disproves the theory.
At the end of the last century physics was all wrapped up, bar a few minor loose ends. We had it down, we knew it all. Then the ultraviolet catastrophe blew it all to smithereens and we had to start over. Now we have not one but two highly successful theories of the universe. The difference this time is that we know we don't have it down because they are incompatible. We should be actively looking for the next ultraviolet catastrophe.
Mills is probably wrong, but maybe, just maybe he's found it.
Shouldn't that be left (radical) / right (conservative)? You're right about the orthogonality though.
Hans Eysenck has a set of questions in Sense and Nonsense in Psychology which place you somewhere on this plane. He shows where self-styled communists and fascists sit. It was quite interesting to see where my friends came, and quite a shock to some of them:)
> Name one company that has replaced a mainframe with Beowulf.
Perhaps Alan was thinking of Amerada Hess although the IBM machine replaced is described as a supercomputer.
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Absolutely.
Amiga was a better computer not some wafty newage-sounding marketing bullshit.
Who is this Thomas J Schmidt sheister anyway. At least Jim Collas had a vision of something real that real people really wanted.
"The company's [Commodore] early vision was probably too limited for the vast potential that Amiga offered. " Commodore was run by fuckwits. Ain't it funny how history repeats.
"Using X, the mouse seems just a tiny bit less smooth and responsive than running windows on the same machine."
I have read somewhere that this is because in Windows the mouse pointer is the highest priority process in the system. In X it is of normal "niceness" but as another poster has pointed out it is a simple thing to change if you don't mind all your other processes grinding to a halt every time you move your mouse.
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Tom says - "Free software has no restrictions on it. Period. Anything more than `do whatever you'd like with this' is no longer free."
I think you are confusing free software with free programmers. Free software is libre and the GPL gives it the inalienable right to remain so. Thus programmers are free to do anything with it except enslave it.
Tom says - "The second myth is that GNU is not Unix."
If you can't appreciate the joke I suggest you imagine a little (TM) sign after "Unix".
Current Netwinders are no good at fp because Strongarm has no fpu. The Arm10, due in the middle of this year, has one designed to give 600 MFlOps so next year's Netwinders should be ideal for clustering. See : http://www.arm.com/Pro+Peripherals/Cores/ARM10/
This article http://www.newscientist.com/ns/990109/newsstory1.h tml describes a similar machine where each FPGA simulates a bunch of neurons and cycles through 300 bunches a second giving an effective neural net of 40 million neurons! They are trying to get it to control a robot kitten in an intelligent way.
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Those purposes and principles are clearly and succinctly stated. I don't think they provide a general get-out clause.
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Article 19:
"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
6. Bohm's hidden variable
Mills is clearly a pretty smart guy. He knows he has a snowball's chance in hell of convincing the scientific community that he is right and they are all wrong. So he is building a business himself to develop and sell his inventions rather than whining that no-one will believe him.
Nevertheless, as someone else posted, he has submitted materials and his power generating processes to many independent labs for testing and he has yet to be thrown in jail.
He bears more watching I'd say.
A common and understandable reaction perhaps, but not a scientific one. A phenomenon that is impossible according to current theories must, a priori, be fraud or nonsense goes the argument. In fact a proven phenemenon that is theoretically impossible disproves the theory.
At the end of the last century physics was all wrapped up, bar a few minor loose ends. We had it down, we knew it all. Then the ultraviolet catastrophe blew it all to smithereens and we had to start over. Now we have not one but two highly successful theories of the universe. The difference this time is that we know we don't have it down because they are incompatible. We should be actively looking for the next ultraviolet catastrophe.
Mills is probably wrong, but maybe, just maybe he's found it.
Shouldn't that be left (radical) / right (conservative)?
:)
You're right about the orthogonality though.
Hans Eysenck has a set of questions in Sense and Nonsense in Psychology which place you somewhere on this plane. He shows where self-styled communists and fascists sit. It was quite interesting to see where my friends came, and quite a shock to some of them
Perhaps Alan was thinking of Amerada Hess although the IBM machine replaced is described as a supercomputer.
Absolutely.
Amiga was a better computer not some wafty newage-sounding marketing bullshit.
Who is this Thomas J Schmidt sheister anyway. At least Jim Collas had a vision of something real that real people really wanted.
"The company's [Commodore] early vision was probably too limited for the vast potential that Amiga offered. "
Commodore was run by fuckwits. Ain't it funny how history repeats.
I have read somewhere that this is because in Windows the mouse pointer is the highest priority process in the system. In X it is of normal "niceness" but as another poster has pointed out it is a simple thing to change if you don't mind all your other processes grinding to a halt every time you move your mouse.
Tom says - "Free software has no restrictions on it. Period. Anything more than `do whatever you'd like with this' is no longer free."
I think you are confusing free software with free programmers. Free software is libre and the GPL gives it the inalienable right to remain so. Thus programmers are free to do anything with it except enslave it.
Tom says - "The second myth is that GNU is not Unix."
If you can't appreciate the joke I suggest you imagine a little (TM) sign after "Unix".
Current Netwinders are no good at fp because Strongarm has no fpu.
The Arm10, due in the middle of this year, has one designed to give 600 MFlOps so next year's Netwinders should be ideal for clustering.
See :
http://www.arm.com/Pro+Peripherals/Cores/ARM10/
This article http://www.newscientist.com/ns/990109/newsstory1.h tml
describes a similar machine where each FPGA simulates a bunch of neurons and cycles through 300 bunches a second giving an effective neural net of 40 million neurons! They are trying to get it to control a robot kitten in an intelligent way.