According to the article, one of the goals of this mission is to look for signs of "Faster than light expansion" that occurred shortly after creation of the universe.
This really excites me, it implies, that there existed conditions in our very own universe where at some point we had faster than light travel.
More thank likely not in our lifetime, however if it happened once, its bound to be discovered "how" and potentially exploited to achieve FTL.
I for one welcome this for entirely selfish reasons. More barriers the Indian government can put for running a competitive business and outsourcing, the better for us out here in Europe and North America:)
When Company XYZ looks to outsource, one more check mark on the sheet, Employee can't use BB [X]
It will boost the transmit power so high that the user will feel a little tingle of an electric shock if the antenna is shorted by this obvious inappropriate use of this godly device.
In related news, apple fanboys have chopped of their thumbs as it is obviously a flaw in human design.
Religious leaders were heard blaming god for designing man in his faulty image while evolutionist think that humans will eventually evolve so that this antenna problem mitigates itself.
Actually Salman Khan is as typical a muslim name from the Indian sub-continent as it gets.
Not saying what this particular individual practices/believes. I would love to see more Muslim doing the kind of work he is, once in a while rest of us Muslims don't have to bury our head in the sand when a news story hits the media about some insane F&$*$ blowing himself up.
I think amplification is the wrong criteria to define a telescope, a better criteria would be "convergence" or "focusing" of whatever spectrum we are looking at. That is the only common theme I can see in a Telescope, they all converge large amount of spectrum to a focal point. This may not be in a physical sense and may be done inside of a computer via munging of captured data from various physical detectors.
In that respect, I still come to the same conclusion, that this is not a telescope.
I have always wondered that google does a whole lot of processing. More so than any other corporation in recent times. Stuff like this OCR, searches, building heuristics for searches etc etc etc. Combined, these are no small tasks, is there a number on what kind of processing power google has, does google's computing grid qualify to be categorized as a super computing grid? What is its standing when compared to all those other super computers?
With iOS 4, your first born's arms and legs would do and is actually preferred by Steve, apparently Gizmodo heard him say something to the effect of meat's softer and torso is a bitch to dispose off.
I agree, I would rather use what comes out on the other end of me to power my flashlight, in a biogas plant. These are hugely popular in rural India where they have lots of livestock to keep them fueled. Output powers generators for electricity as well as direct burning for cooking of food.
These days design of chips like A4 is more like programming than IC design of the 80s.
- Import the ARM Cortex 8 library, customized with configuration - import other libraries e.g. memory controller, graphics chip etc - write code to bind them together compile... oops.. I mean send to foundry. Get back A4 or your Snapdragon.
This is MS shooting itself in the foot. I see a new connector on the images, I bet that's for Kinect.
In essence they are saying buy this new console if you want to use Kinect.
I got hooked on to Halo when I was unmarried and had no kids, now I play it exclusively, never got hooked on to COD. Not because I don't like it but instead I can't spare the time to learn a new title, particularly to compete with teenagers who can play all night long. Halo entertains, Halo I learned, Halo I play.
I would have bought kinetic for its geek value, and then a few games for it, unlikely I will buy if I need to get a new console. I mean, I have about two dozen games that I bought and regret buying because most suck. I never play them, those were $50 bucks a pop. I can't see spending 300 bucks for this gimmick. And gimmick it does look like.
Maybe I am not MS's target audience, maybe I'm too old to keep up with all night gamers.
I hear you saying people shouldn't to draw Mohammad (or otherwise insult) so that there will be no violence. It implies violence if people do draw Mohammad. Perhaps not an approval of violence, but it does imply violence in that situation. It is implicitly placing the blame for that violence on the person speaking peacefully.
I pretty much prefer mutual respect to violence on any given day.
And again you phrased it as two alternatives, either don't disrespect me/us/them/whoever or I/we/them/whoever will kill you. Maybe you didn't intend it that way, but your post is at best extremely ambiguous. I'm not making accusations, but I am finding it very awkward to reply when your post still isn't addressing the core issue.
I think where we disagree are between, "what is" and "what should be"
I will try to itemize my position - I do not support violence - I do not support insult to my religion in the name of Freedom of Speech (I reserve the right to be offended) - I agree with what you are saying in regards to Freedom of Speech and how violence should not be used to suppress it.
However, my goal is that this violence should eventually disappear from the face of the earth, doing stunts like "Draw a muhammed" will only work towards inciting more. If the west feels its more enlightened and wiser, then play up a game of respect and understanding while the extremist can be educated.
As it stands now, the sequence goes like this - Mr. xyx starts up a Draw a Mohammed page - Extremist leaders looks at it and threatens to blow up things - Finds someone who doesn't know better and goes ahead and does it
Like it or not (I don't either) this is how it is today. IMO, this generation of extremists is hopeless, goal should be that the newer generation of kids in Afghanistan are educated enough to understand values of a modern society. This is why I support NATO allies, its a lot of price to pay for the allies, however the goal is to have a educated folks around there 20 years from now. All the points you are making are good in theory, un-implementable unless the other side has a clue, right now they don't. This is what my position it i.e how do we get from now to 20 years where the folks there are educated with minimum violence.
If my goal of highlighting the importance of Freedom of Speech (and other modern values) can be given peace meal at a time and spare a few 100 lives, I am willing to make that trade. You may not. IMO, such changes are slow and blazing the torch of Freedom of Speech on the other guys face is not a practical thing to do.
I pretty much agree to all the points you have made. However, some of the common theme in your response is that I somehow approve of violence.
On the contrary, my goal was that both sides should respect each other so that there is no violence.
In fact the conditions you placed on mutual respect are a given. Also its not I who needs to understand them. Its everyone, I pretty much prefer mutual respect to violence on any given day.
Have you looked at some of the pictures on the facebook page, freedom of speech or not, they are mostly hate motivated. I don't see any picture with Christ, Moses and Mohammed on a picnic. Something that defeats the purpose of the page itself, i.e. a statement on freedom of speech. Muslim is the new Jew (of the pre-world war era).
9:4 (But the treaties are) not dissolved with those Pagans with whom ye have entered into alliance and who have not subsequently failed you in aught, nor aided any one against you. So fulfil your engagements with them to the end of their term: for Allah loveth the righteous.
para 29 and 73 applies to those who are at war with you. So yes, you become the "invaders" in Afghanistan and Iraq implies you are at war. You will be attacked.
You not at war, 9:4 applies.
Unfortunately, you (and your kind here) and ironically extremist both read 9:29 and 9:73.
Oh, and did you read this one 9:6 "If one amongst the Pagans ask thee for asylum, grant it to him, so that he may hear the word of Allah. and then escort him to where he can be secure. That is because they are men without knowledge. "
"If you are going to do something (draw pictures) that will offend people, then you should expect them to want to kill you and be violent."
Ummmm.. no... My response was more immediate to what you had said. Your response to my immediate post was not the politest, hence expect a non-polite response. That is what I meant.
And to your point, you are drawing pictures of Mohamed, expect them to kill you is a wise things. I don't condone it, never have, never will, however they will if they find the one who drew (that could be you, me or Joe the plumber). So I should expect it lest be caught off guard. Its wrong, I agree, but "expect" you should.
to you and all the other religious lying mother-fuckers, "FUCK OFF!". Now, let's fucking shoot it out.
Ummmmm... This is where your redneck trailer park comes from. From what I see, you are not much different from these terrorist, "shoot it out", that is what Taliban are doing, "shooting it out". As far as thought exercise go, I can pretty much picture you wearing a turban fighting NATO allies in Afghanistan, only difference is you weren't born there.
Stop the 200 generation cycle of incest (arranged marriages with your first cousins you sick fucks)
I have always wondered about this. Few years back, I wrote to my MP asking his view on same sex marriage. He said its a matter of freedom.
Isn't incest the same thing. Why is incest not a matter of freedom. My personal point of view doesn't matter, further I am not talking about where a dad rapes his daughter. Furthermore I am not talking about genetic abnormalities. I am talking about freedom to do so.
Why in this enlightened society, incest is looked at differently than same sex marriages in terms of freedom. Yah, you may think cousins getting married is sick and disgusting, why is that an issue to you if they choose to do so. Whats the problem here? Whats your problem with it.
Along with this, its so far in best interest of some countries it stays this way for some more time, at least in Saudi Arabia. With Education comes demand for freedom.
If you look at places that have oil in Saudi Arabia, 90% of the population are Shia muslim. They are aligned with Iran. If you educate these guys, they will demand more freedom, this does not gel well with ruling Sunni royals. Nor does it gel with Oil consumers. Majority of oil in control of Iran is one thing that terrifies the local government as well as uncle sam.
Solution is to keep them un-educated, rule them by force, call them rebels or "enemy combatants". Gas them (yes it has happened in Saudi Arabia too, entire villages, indiscriminately gassed).
Education. Lots of it, at least two generations worth of education.
I grew up in middle east and a local joke goes like this,
A sheikh's driver brings his 18 year old son to his Shiekh Driver: Can you get my son a good job. Sheikh: Has he done some kind of formal education? Driver: No, not really, actually he never went to school Sheikh: Is he smart/talented Driver: Yes he is very smart Shiekh: Hmmmm.. that doesn't work out, cause if he wasn't smart, he would be perfect for the local mosque priest.
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According to the article, one of the goals of this mission is to look for signs of "Faster than light expansion" that occurred shortly after creation of the universe.
This really excites me, it implies, that there existed conditions in our very own universe where at some point we had faster than light travel.
More thank likely not in our lifetime, however if it happened once, its bound to be discovered "how" and potentially exploited to achieve FTL.
Just my 0.02$
I for one welcome this for entirely selfish reasons. More barriers the Indian government can put for running a competitive business and outsourcing, the better for us out here in Europe and North America :)
When Company XYZ looks to outsource, one more check mark on the sheet, Employee can't use BB [X]
More local jobs, yippee!
It will boost the transmit power so high that the user will feel a little tingle of an electric shock if the antenna is shorted by this obvious inappropriate use of this godly device.
In related news, apple fanboys have chopped of their thumbs as it is obviously a flaw in human design.
Religious leaders were heard blaming god for designing man in his faulty image while evolutionist think that humans will eventually evolve so that this antenna problem mitigates itself.
Actually Salman Khan is as typical a muslim name from the Indian sub-continent as it gets.
Not saying what this particular individual practices/believes. I would love to see more Muslim doing the kind of work he is, once in a while rest of us Muslims don't have to bury our head in the sand when a news story hits the media about some insane F&$*$ blowing himself up.
I think amplification is the wrong criteria to define a telescope, a better criteria would be "convergence" or "focusing" of whatever spectrum we are looking at. That is the only common theme I can see in a Telescope, they all converge large amount of spectrum to a focal point. This may not be in a physical sense and may be done inside of a computer via munging of captured data from various physical detectors.
In that respect, I still come to the same conclusion, that this is not a telescope.
or will it run Linux....
A little offtopic.
I have always wondered that google does a whole lot of processing. More so than any other corporation in recent times. Stuff like this OCR, searches, building heuristics for searches etc etc etc. Combined, these are no small tasks, is there a number on what kind of processing power google has, does google's computing grid qualify to be categorized as a super computing grid? What is its standing when compared to all those other super computers?
With iOS 4, your first born's arms and legs would do and is actually preferred by Steve, apparently Gizmodo heard him say something to the effect of meat's softer and torso is a bitch to dispose off.
It seems you can keep the torso to yourself.
I agree, I would rather use what comes out on the other end of me to power my flashlight, in a biogas plant. These are hugely popular in rural India where they have lots of livestock to keep them fueled. Output powers generators for electricity as well as direct burning for cooking of food.
Think Programming instead of IC design.
These days design of chips like A4 is more like programming than IC design of the 80s.
- Import the ARM Cortex 8 library, customized with configuration
- import other libraries e.g. memory controller, graphics chip etc
- write code to bind them together
compile... oops.. I mean send to foundry. Get back A4 or your Snapdragon.
This is MS shooting itself in the foot. I see a new connector on the images, I bet that's for Kinect.
In essence they are saying buy this new console if you want to use Kinect.
I got hooked on to Halo when I was unmarried and had no kids, now I play it exclusively, never got hooked on to COD. Not because I don't like it but instead I can't spare the time to learn a new title, particularly to compete with teenagers who can play all night long. Halo entertains, Halo I learned, Halo I play.
I would have bought kinetic for its geek value, and then a few games for it, unlikely I will buy if I need to get a new console. I mean, I have about two dozen games that I bought and regret buying because most suck. I never play them, those were $50 bucks a pop. I can't see spending 300 bucks for this gimmick. And gimmick it does look like.
Maybe I am not MS's target audience, maybe I'm too old to keep up with all night gamers.
...you may as well buy a good quality projector.
or get 6 relatively low quality (as in not too bright) high resolution projectors and solve the bezel problem by carefully aligning the 6 projectors.
Project small and bright, get a crispy, high resolution display.
Thats how we do Goatse on a planetary scale.
I hear you saying people shouldn't to draw Mohammad (or otherwise insult) so that there will be no violence. It implies violence if people do draw Mohammad. Perhaps not an approval of violence, but it does imply violence in that situation. It is implicitly placing the blame for that violence on the person speaking peacefully.
I pretty much prefer mutual respect to violence on any given day.
And again you phrased it as two alternatives, either don't disrespect me/us/them/whoever or I/we/them/whoever will kill you. Maybe you didn't intend it that way, but your post is at best extremely ambiguous. I'm not making accusations, but I am finding it very awkward to reply when your post still isn't addressing the core issue.
I think where we disagree are between, "what is" and "what should be"
I will try to itemize my position
- I do not support violence
- I do not support insult to my religion in the name of Freedom of Speech (I reserve the right to be offended)
- I agree with what you are saying in regards to Freedom of Speech and how violence should not be used to suppress it.
However, my goal is that this violence should eventually disappear from the face of the earth, doing stunts like "Draw a muhammed" will only work towards inciting more. If the west feels its more enlightened and wiser, then play up a game of respect and understanding while the extremist can be educated.
As it stands now, the sequence goes like this
- Mr. xyx starts up a Draw a Mohammed page
- Extremist leaders looks at it and threatens to blow up things
- Finds someone who doesn't know better and goes ahead and does it
Like it or not (I don't either) this is how it is today. IMO, this generation of extremists is hopeless, goal should be that the newer generation of kids in Afghanistan are educated enough to understand values of a modern society. This is why I support NATO allies, its a lot of price to pay for the allies, however the goal is to have a educated folks around there 20 years from now. All the points you are making are good in theory, un-implementable unless the other side has a clue, right now they don't. This is what my position it i.e how do we get from now to 20 years where the folks there are educated with minimum violence.
If my goal of highlighting the importance of Freedom of Speech (and other modern values) can be given peace meal at a time and spare a few 100 lives, I am willing to make that trade. You may not. IMO, such changes are slow and blazing the torch of Freedom of Speech on the other guys face is not a practical thing to do.
Thats who should pay her, too bad she didn't get any, thats her fault.
I pretty much agree to all the points you have made. However, some of the common theme in your response is that I somehow approve of violence.
On the contrary, my goal was that both sides should respect each other so that there is no violence.
In fact the conditions you placed on mutual respect are a given. Also its not I who needs to understand them. Its everyone, I pretty much prefer mutual respect to violence on any given day.
Have you looked at some of the pictures on the facebook page, freedom of speech or not, they are mostly hate motivated. I don't see any picture with Christ, Moses and Mohammed on a picnic. Something that defeats the purpose of the page itself, i.e. a statement on freedom of speech. Muslim is the new Jew (of the pre-world war era).
Ummmm... much much before this, same chapter.
9:4 (But the treaties are) not dissolved with those Pagans with whom ye have entered into alliance and who have not subsequently failed you in aught, nor aided any one against you. So fulfil your engagements with them to the end of their term: for Allah loveth the righteous.
para 29 and 73 applies to those who are at war with you. So yes, you become the "invaders" in Afghanistan and Iraq implies you are at war. You will be attacked.
You not at war, 9:4 applies.
Unfortunately, you (and your kind here) and ironically extremist both read 9:29 and 9:73.
Oh, and did you read this one
9:6 "If one amongst the Pagans ask thee for asylum, grant it to him, so that he may hear the word of Allah. and then escort him to where he can be secure. That is because they are men without knowledge. "
"If you are going to do something (draw pictures) that will offend people, then you should expect them to want to kill you and be violent."
Ummmm.. no... My response was more immediate to what you had said. Your response to my immediate post was not the politest, hence expect a non-polite response. That is what I meant.
And to your point, you are drawing pictures of Mohamed, expect them to kill you is a wise things. I don't condone it, never have, never will, however they will if they find the one who drew (that could be you, me or Joe the plumber). So I should expect it lest be caught off guard. Its wrong, I agree, but "expect" you should.
to you and all the other religious lying mother-fuckers, "FUCK OFF!". Now, let's fucking shoot it out.
Ummmmm... This is where your redneck trailer park comes from. From what I see, you are not much different from these terrorist, "shoot it out", that is what Taliban are doing, "shooting it out". As far as thought exercise go, I can pretty much picture you wearing a turban fighting NATO allies in Afghanistan, only difference is you weren't born there.
And you say I want you to agree to my beliefs.
is to make flexible/foldable power supplies..
..and to remove DRM
Banning a site by Pakistan government != violence.
If there is one thing Corporate America loves more than freedom, its money. That is what all this has to do with.
Stop the 200 generation cycle of incest (arranged marriages with your first cousins you sick fucks)
I have always wondered about this. Few years back, I wrote to my MP asking his view on same sex marriage. He said its a matter of freedom.
Isn't incest the same thing. Why is incest not a matter of freedom. My personal point of view doesn't matter, further I am not talking about where a dad rapes his daughter. Furthermore I am not talking about genetic abnormalities. I am talking about freedom to do so.
Why in this enlightened society, incest is looked at differently than same sex marriages in terms of freedom. Yah, you may think cousins getting married is sick and disgusting, why is that an issue to you if they choose to do so. Whats the problem here? Whats your problem with it.
Along with this, its so far in best interest of some countries it stays this way for some more time, at least in Saudi Arabia. With Education comes demand for freedom.
If you look at places that have oil in Saudi Arabia, 90% of the population are Shia muslim. They are aligned with Iran. If you educate these guys, they will demand more freedom, this does not gel well with ruling Sunni royals. Nor does it gel with Oil consumers. Majority of oil in control of Iran is one thing that terrifies the local government as well as uncle sam.
Solution is to keep them un-educated, rule them by force, call them rebels or "enemy combatants". Gas them (yes it has happened in Saudi Arabia too, entire villages, indiscriminately gassed).
I don't know what the solution is
Education. Lots of it, at least two generations worth of education.
I grew up in middle east and a local joke goes like this,
A sheikh's driver brings his 18 year old son to his Shiekh
Driver: Can you get my son a good job.
Sheikh: Has he done some kind of formal education?
Driver: No, not really, actually he never went to school
Sheikh: Is he smart/talented
Driver: Yes he is very smart
Shiekh: Hmmmm.. that doesn't work out, cause if he wasn't smart, he would be perfect for the local mosque priest.
Parts of the Koran specifically say to convert or kill infidels
Care to back this up.
This is simply not acceptable. And this ridicule serves as a way of showing that we are united in this perspective.
Funny, This is exactly what I heard from the Muslims.