Haha.
Fair enough. Nonetheless my point still stands. The balls in a billiards game follow distinct, verifiable, and most importantly predictable rules. Just because you lack the information to make use of those rules, does not mean the balls behave unpredictably.
You've never passed a class in basic physics, much less published a paper on the physics of pool have you (actually i haven't done the second either, but I have read the paper. interesting stuff, lemme see if i can find it...damn, nope, not on arxiv).
At anyrate, the point is the balls do very much behave predictably, according to very well defined rules of physics. Just because you lack the information to accurately determine their future states does not mean they behave unpredictably.
Even though you got modded Funny, its quite true. I only use LaTeX anymore. Of course, every document i write has easily over a hundred equation images, which are a royal PITA to make sure anyone viewing the document can see them, so LaTeX to PDF is the only way for me to go.
Furthermore, he claims that the "market" should decide the price of music, a la supply and demand (i assume that is his implication). However, with digital media files, the supply is literally infinite, therfore, traditional market dynamics do not apply. There is no reason for more popular songs to cost more, just because they are in higher demand, because supply is inifinite.
Actually, for very very massive black holes tidal forces are negligable. Sounds weird I know, but you could actually "stand" at the even horizon of a 300 solar mass black hole and not get ripped in half. Of course, a star is much larger than you, and so would have larger tidal forces, but they're also much farther away. Furthermore of the blackhole/massive star binary pairs that we see, all the stars still exist in those cases, much closer to much smaller black holes, with greater tidal forces. They merely lose mass, but they do not fall apart.
Those composition numbers for the sun are significantly off. I forget the exact figures, and i don't have time to dig the papers up out of arxiv.org, but its closer to H=0.707 He=0.28 and Z=.013.
Further, I did not say i believe there work should be free. I said that they should not restrict the flow of information. Not the same thing. If you actually read my post, you'll see i said that if google combined this with on demand publishing, the abiltiy to rapidly locate the text you need, then voila. I could have the books i want shipped to me, printed only when needed, with far less overhead than the current publishing paradigm which could mean better percentage payouts for authors.
well, as for calling carbon a "metal" its only a metal in terms of its ionization properties with respest to how this affects the scattering and absorption of light.
To be more clear, hydrogen and helium only have one layer of electrons. They scatter and absorb light differently from anything that has more than one layer (because they ionize completely at solar temperatures, whereas elements with multiple electron shells generally do not.
No, because hydrogen is a single proton, not a single neutron.
I forget the exact mechanics of neutron accretion, as its not my field of direct study, but it occurs in two forms, the r-process (rapid) and the s-process(slow) (we physicists are not known for being creative with names).
The r-process occurs in supernovae when heavy nuclei are bombarded by many neutrons, ad rather than splitting the target nuclei, the neutrons stick (at the same time the nuclei are radiating particles away, but not as fast as they are gaining them). Once the process stops, the new, super neutron rich nuclei give off beta radiation (changing neturons into protons) until they reach a stable configuration.
The s-process occurs in large, but otherwise stable stars. This process however only produces elements as heavy as lead. Anything heavier is produced by the r-process.
Actually its neutron accretion that produces elements heavier than iron, not fusion. Iron disintegrates at temperatures lower than what it will fuse at.
That is why you always get the signatures for something from the main site. Actually, why would anyone ever download software from anything other than the author's site(except maybe your distro's package system)?
This kind of crap just irritates me.
Copyright laws are painfully outdated in the digital age, and yet time and time again those who sell information (in whatever format, music, movie, now books) are constantly standing in the way of progress. What we need is the free and unrestricted flow of information.
I've looked over Google Print, and i see nothing for these authors to object over. If anything, its a massive windfall for them, its the perfect resource for finding a relevant book on a given topic. Need a book on differential forms and tensor calculus? Thousands and thousands of results. Its essentially free and unlimited advertising. If Google combined this with pblishing on demand, they could put every publisher in existence not only out of business, but do it while offering far better deals for the authors.
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Haha. Fair enough. Nonetheless my point still stands. The balls in a billiards game follow distinct, verifiable, and most importantly predictable rules. Just because you lack the information to make use of those rules, does not mean the balls behave unpredictably.
You've never passed a class in basic physics, much less published a paper on the physics of pool have you (actually i haven't done the second either, but I have read the paper. interesting stuff, lemme see if i can find it...damn, nope, not on arxiv). At anyrate, the point is the balls do very much behave predictably, according to very well defined rules of physics. Just because you lack the information to accurately determine their future states does not mean they behave unpredictably.
Even though you got modded Funny, its quite true. I only use LaTeX anymore. Of course, every document i write has easily over a hundred equation images, which are a royal PITA to make sure anyone viewing the document can see them, so LaTeX to PDF is the only way for me to go.
Furthermore, he claims that the "market" should decide the price of music, a la supply and demand (i assume that is his implication). However, with digital media files, the supply is literally infinite, therfore, traditional market dynamics do not apply. There is no reason for more popular songs to cost more, just because they are in higher demand, because supply is inifinite.
Actually, for very very massive black holes tidal forces are negligable. Sounds weird I know, but you could actually "stand" at the even horizon of a 300 solar mass black hole and not get ripped in half. Of course, a star is much larger than you, and so would have larger tidal forces, but they're also much farther away. Furthermore of the blackhole/massive star binary pairs that we see, all the stars still exist in those cases, much closer to much smaller black holes, with greater tidal forces. They merely lose mass, but they do not fall apart.
Those composition numbers for the sun are significantly off. I forget the exact figures, and i don't have time to dig the papers up out of arxiv.org, but its closer to H=0.707 He=0.28 and Z=.013.
*sigh* Fixed.
Elements heavier than iron are not prodcued through fusion. See above.
I live in california. Our legislators are all cronies of the Mexican government. They don't give a rat's ass about us.
Further, I did not say i believe there work should be free. I said that they should not restrict the flow of information. Not the same thing. If you actually read my post, you'll see i said that if google combined this with on demand publishing, the abiltiy to rapidly locate the text you need, then voila. I could have the books i want shipped to me, printed only when needed, with far less overhead than the current publishing paradigm which could mean better percentage payouts for authors.
I'm a physics major incidently. That is my job, to do all of that. You were saying?
well, as for calling carbon a "metal" its only a metal in terms of its ionization properties with respest to how this affects the scattering and absorption of light. To be more clear, hydrogen and helium only have one layer of electrons. They scatter and absorb light differently from anything that has more than one layer (because they ionize completely at solar temperatures, whereas elements with multiple electron shells generally do not.
No, because hydrogen is a single proton, not a single neutron. I forget the exact mechanics of neutron accretion, as its not my field of direct study, but it occurs in two forms, the r-process (rapid) and the s-process(slow) (we physicists are not known for being creative with names). The r-process occurs in supernovae when heavy nuclei are bombarded by many neutrons, ad rather than splitting the target nuclei, the neutrons stick (at the same time the nuclei are radiating particles away, but not as fast as they are gaining them). Once the process stops, the new, super neutron rich nuclei give off beta radiation (changing neturons into protons) until they reach a stable configuration. The s-process occurs in large, but otherwise stable stars. This process however only produces elements as heavy as lead. Anything heavier is produced by the r-process.
Essentially, yes.
Actually its neutron accretion that produces elements heavier than iron, not fusion. Iron disintegrates at temperatures lower than what it will fuse at.
Is your brain from the 1.x or the 1.5.x development branch?
Ever heard of TeX?
Or instead of copying it from google, they could just go and copy it from the libraries themselves. So much for google locking people out.
That is why you always get the signatures for something from the main site. Actually, why would anyone ever download software from anything other than the author's site(except maybe your distro's package system)?
This kind of crap just irritates me. Copyright laws are painfully outdated in the digital age, and yet time and time again those who sell information (in whatever format, music, movie, now books) are constantly standing in the way of progress. What we need is the free and unrestricted flow of information. I've looked over Google Print, and i see nothing for these authors to object over. If anything, its a massive windfall for them, its the perfect resource for finding a relevant book on a given topic. Need a book on differential forms and tensor calculus? Thousands and thousands of results. Its essentially free and unlimited advertising. If Google combined this with pblishing on demand, they could put every publisher in existence not only out of business, but do it while offering far better deals for the authors.
I upgrade to current every day with no problems. You simply don't know what you're talking about.
Don't you find the ironing delicious? I know I do.
You're an idiot. China has ICBMs. And would use them.
What are you talking about? I can do Slackware installs without a monitor its so easy.
The Cell.