Interesting, thank you. The wikipedia article says "Nimtz stated that the frequency modulated (FM) carrier wave transported the 40th symphony of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 4.7 times faster than light due to the effect of quantum tunneling." So it appears that he did, in fact, transmit information faster than c.
There are cases where a wave can propagate faster than c, but no information can be conveyed faster than light.
Interesting, I'd not heard of waves that can propagate faster than c, can you link to more info? If a wave can propagate faster than c then why can't it carry information?
Does your 7 year old car come with free maintenance?
Some do, no computer does. But if a dangerous defect was found in my 12 year old car they'll repair it for free. Not if, but when, a dangerous vulnerability is found in 1/3 of the computers on the internet is found, that too should be fixed.
If Windows cost $20 for activation and $20 per year to license and MS kept supporting it for those who renewed their licenses, that would be acting responsibly and would be worth it to anyone who actually needed Windows. It would also raise Linux's "market" share quite a bit.
For how long? What period of time is Toyota or GM expected to do this?
The newer the model, the more expensive the recall. If a safety defect were found in a '57 Chevy it would be cheaper to recall the cars than to pay damages in a lawsuit after someone was badly injured. That's why Ford let people burn, the bean counters figured that the lawsuits would be cheaper than the $10 per Pinto retrofit.
I'm hoping the coming massive botnet targets and takes down a powerful organization's website, and that organization sues the hell out of Microsoft. If that happens, software houses will act more responsibly.
Windows works fine when you don't actually install anything on it.
So, when XP support ends all users have to do is reinstall XP and they can safely surf the web with IE6 and not become part of a botnet?
"We want to take a full inventory of the condition of the wheels," Erickson said. "Dents and holes were anticipated, but the amount of wear appears to have accelerated in the past month or so. It appears to be correlated with driving over rougher terrain. The wheels can sustain significant damage without impairing the rover's ability to drive. However, we would like to understand the impact that this terrain type has on the wheels, to help with planning future drives."
Curiosity's recent driving has crossed an area that has numerous sharp rocks embedded in the ground. Routes to future destinations for the mission may be charted to lessen the amount of travel over such rough terrain, compared to smoother ground nearby.
No need to panic. NASA knows its shit (and yes, I'm a fanboy)
They weren't up there for the year it would take to get to Mars, radiation is a bitch. That said, Buzz Aldrin is 83 with no sign of cancer so who knows?
Where in the hell did this "NASA is dead" meme start? It keeps popping up every few years. Yeah, it's underfunded. Have you written your elected officials? They're the only ones who can do anything.
If the current patent mess had been in place when cars were first industrialized, one automaker would have had the patent on the gas pedal, another on brake lights, another on the turn signal lever, and still another on windshield wipers.
The current patent mess was in place then, except there were a lot fewer inventors so a lot fewer patents. But when Ford started building the Model T, guess what happened? The other auto makers sued Ford for patent infringement, even though they infringed no patents!
Oh, and BTW, when cars were first industrialized (before Ford when only the rich had cars), the gas pedal wasn't standardized (still wasn't with the Fords), there were no brake lights, there were no turn signals (you signaled with your arm), and there were no windshield wipers.
If Mr. Smith's car is one of the high, hideous, but efficient model T Fords of the day, let us watch him for a minute. He climbs in by the right-hand door (for there is no left-hand door by the front seat), reaches over to the wheel, and sets the spark and throttle levers in a position like that of the hands of a clock at ten minutes to three. Then, unless he has paid extra for a self-starter, he gets out to crank. Seizing the crank in his right hand carefully (for a friend of his once broke his arm cranking), he slips his left forefinger through a loop of wire that controls the choke. He pulls the loop of wire, he revolves the crank mightily, and as the engine at last roars, he leaps to the trembling running-board, leans in, and moves the spark and throttle to twenty-five minutes of two. Perhaps he reaches the throttle before the engine falters into silence, but if it is a cold morning perhaps he does not. In that case, back to the crank again and the loop of wire. Mr. Smith wishes Mrs. Smith would come out and sit in the driver's seat and pull that spark lever down before the engine has time to die.
Finally he is at the wheel with the engine roaring as it should. He releases the emergency hand-brake, shoves his left foot against the low speed pedal, and as the car sweeps loudly out into the street, he releases his left foot, lets the car into high gear, and is off. Now his only care is for that long hill down the street; yesterday he burned his brake on it, and this morning he must remember to brake with the reverse pedal, or the low-speed pedal, or both, or all three in alternation. (Jam your foot down on any of the three pedals and you slow the car.)
Christ, Jim, I hope you're paying attention here because you have lots to learn.
I'm all for aps, aps mean you can't get a virus
It's app, not ap. App is short for "application". An application is a computer program, period. Lotus and Excel are apps. The distinction is not real, it was started by the computer-ignorants in the press. You most certainly CAN get a virus (or rather, a trojan which may include a virus) from a malicious app. So no, you cartainly can NOT "download software off the Internet with a Windows computer." Only install software from a source you know and trust.
Of course they're 15 years late to the party. A lot of people bought Macs because they're harder to get viruses on.
Well, yes, Windows used to have more holes than swiss cheese, you could get a virus simply from viewing a web site or opening an email with XP and earlier. Not only was Mac, Linux and BSD far more secure by design, they were all overshadowed by a big fat easy target, a virus writer would have been insane to target anything but Windows.
If Microsoft would have simply made software unable to escape their install directory like DOS games
Wow, dude, you're full of misconceptions. DOS never did that. Any DOS program could access any part of the computer it wanted to, and most DOS games write directly to hardware (which is why you had to input IEQs on setup).
As to W8's market share, I'm saddened by the fact that I want a new notebook but at every place I've shopped, there would be no W7 computers, 5 or 10 W8 computers, and 1 or 2 Chromebooks. No thanks; I don't want a phone OS on a notebook and I don't want to have to be on the network to use a notebook, so both OSes are out for me.
It is even arguable that if they were smart you could make a Windows ap, and it'd work on Android and iPhone too.
You don't know much about computers, do you? It seems that it wouldn't be hard to port from Apple to Droid and back, since they're both *nix based, but impossible with Windows. The platform is completely different.
I suggest you lurk for a while, son. You have a lot to learn about computers.
I don't understand why the utilities simply don't build out their grids to accept feed-in from customers' solar rigs
Because they, like the RIAA at the turn of this century, know their days are numbered. The RIAA labels when anyone could make a CD, and the power companies' end will be some time this century when solar panels are cheaper than plumbing in a new home. Why buy when it's cheaper and effortless to make your own?
I see the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries as the "wired centuries" starting with the telegraph, then power lines, and I think the only utility poles you'll see in the 22nd century will be streetlights.
Blame the Asians and Europeans, because we in the Americas were asleep when this tripe was voted up. There ought to be a few good joke comments, though, so it's OK.
What made me scratch my noggin was "why that OS??" Most Linux distros are superior in almost all ways, BSD most likely is as well (although I haven't messed with BSD and don't know). No W8 computer can possibly equal an Apple computer. Apple is BSD, Windows isn't any *nix at all. Apple's is a full desktop operating system, W8 is for cell phones.
Plus, you're going to buy all those expensive parts and install the crappiest, most expensive OS you can find on it when you can have a far superior OS for absolutely free??
This story is an advertisement for Microsoft. If it weren't it would have utilized a better and cheaper OS, one that didn't suck moth balls.
Why would you want one of those?? Hire a maid and find a "friend with benefits" and you don't have to put up with her nagging you and hiding your stuff ("well LOOK for it!") while spending your money. You can tinker with hardware and play video games and read and do anything you want.
A wife? No thanks. Now, my question is, why am I being discriminated against just because I'm single?
Where does hate come in to this equation? When and where did I imply that I hate anyone?
You said "The unshaven fat fucks you describe are beneath contempt, just as any other fat fucks who are to impotent to make a difference in the world. The militant assholes who file a court case every time the hear the name of Christ (or Allah, or Buddha, or Jehovah) are the ones who need to be dragged out behind the barn, for an appointment with a.22 long rifle behind their ears."
That sounds pretty hateful to me.
If you walk out into the street of your home town, and find a pack of wild dogs attacking a child, what do you do? I would destroy the dogs.
You weren't talking about a pack of wild dogs physically attacking a child, you were talking about murdering human beings for filing lawsuits. BIG difference there.
I just want to see the threat that those militant atheists represent to be ended.
They're no threat. As hard as they try and as much as they wish it, there's no way they'll ever kill religion.
They have no right to impose their world view on other people. Nor do Christians have a right to impose their world view on other people.
Entirely true. There should be no ten commandments in a courthouse; the last I looked, merely wanting someone's property is legal, having sex with your congressman's wife is legal, being atheist is legal, but the ten commandments say they're sins (which they of course are). Government should have nothing to do with marriage whatever; why does a childless married couple pay less in tax than a widow with a child who earns the same? If governments were not in the marriage business (and marriage is a religious institution) this "gay marriage" nonsense would have never started. Kansas and Texas should stop trying to push creationism as a scientific theory, because it isn't.
If atheists want to waste their money on lawsuits and billboards, let them. They won't shake my faith, or the faith of anyone who has had God touch them.
Maybe if there weren't so many wolves in sheep's clothing (like that Baptist "church" in Florida that pickets military funerals that's really a bunch of lawyers, and you know what Christ said about lawyers) the atheists might shut up. They just don't realize that there are people who pretend to be Christians. There are an awful lot of people who claim to worship God but in reality worship money and power. These people are far more dangerous than any atheist, no matter how militant.
Every once in a while, one of you starts to think clearly, and that's the end of the magical thinking.
And once in a while one of you finds God, although I personally know only one such person, who was raised in an atheist household and found God after a bout of homelessness.
Of course religion can be misused by evil men, there is nothing in the world that can't be.
I'm not the imaginary Christian that everyone expects to turn the other cheek though.
You should try it, it works. Fighting hate with hate just feeds the hate, love dissipates hate. Those militant atheists? How can you hate the pitiful? The poor fools are doomed unless they see the light.
There's no room for hatred in Christianity; hatred is from Satan. Love those who hate you, do good to those who persecute you. That is the essence of Jesus' message.
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Interesting, thank you. The wikipedia article says "Nimtz stated that the frequency modulated (FM) carrier wave transported the 40th symphony of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 4.7 times faster than light due to the effect of quantum tunneling." So it appears that he did, in fact, transmit information faster than c.
Now I need to read up on quantum tunneling.
There are cases where a wave can propagate faster than c, but no information can be conveyed faster than light.
Interesting, I'd not heard of waves that can propagate faster than c, can you link to more info? If a wave can propagate faster than c then why can't it carry information?
The AC above answered that question well.
I can't argue with that.
Does your 7 year old car come with free maintenance?
Some do, no computer does. But if a dangerous defect was found in my 12 year old car they'll repair it for free. Not if, but when, a dangerous vulnerability is found in 1/3 of the computers on the internet is found, that too should be fixed.
If Windows cost $20 for activation and $20 per year to license and MS kept supporting it for those who renewed their licenses, that would be acting responsibly and would be worth it to anyone who actually needed Windows. It would also raise Linux's "market" share quite a bit.
For how long? What period of time is Toyota or GM expected to do this?
The newer the model, the more expensive the recall. If a safety defect were found in a '57 Chevy it would be cheaper to recall the cars than to pay damages in a lawsuit after someone was badly injured. That's why Ford let people burn, the bean counters figured that the lawsuits would be cheaper than the $10 per Pinto retrofit.
I'm hoping the coming massive botnet targets and takes down a powerful organization's website, and that organization sues the hell out of Microsoft. If that happens, software houses will act more responsibly.
Windows works fine when you don't actually install anything on it.
So, when XP support ends all users have to do is reinstall XP and they can safely surf the web with IE6 and not become part of a botnet?
I have no idea, but if they're not patching them they're as irresponsible as Microsoft.
It's only Latin if it comes at the end of a sentence spoken in Latin. Likewise, "cough" is an English word unless it's in a sentence spoken in German.
May I be allowed to get back on topic? NASA's website doesn't have the "OH, SHIT!!" factor.
No need to panic. NASA knows its shit (and yes, I'm a fanboy)
They weren't up there for the year it would take to get to Mars, radiation is a bitch. That said, Buzz Aldrin is 83 with no sign of cancer so who knows?
So, were you driving that truck on Mars?
That joke doesn't work if you pronounce Amen correctly.
Not all of us are from Bahston. Potato, potahto, fuck off, snob.
Why would finding life be a threat to religious doctrine? What religion?
It seems there is a moderator lacking a sense of humor, I thought it was funny.
Where in the hell did this "NASA is dead" meme start? It keeps popping up every few years. Yeah, it's underfunded. Have you written your elected officials? They're the only ones who can do anything.
If the current patent mess had been in place when cars were first industrialized, one automaker would have had the patent on the gas pedal, another on brake lights, another on the turn signal lever, and still another on windshield wipers.
The current patent mess was in place then, except there were a lot fewer inventors so a lot fewer patents. But when Ford started building the Model T, guess what happened? The other auto makers sued Ford for patent infringement, even though they infringed no patents!
Oh, and BTW, when cars were first industrialized (before Ford when only the rich had cars), the gas pedal wasn't standardized (still wasn't with the Fords), there were no brake lights, there were no turn signals (you signaled with your arm), and there were no windshield wipers.
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Christ, Jim, I hope you're paying attention here because you have lots to learn.
I'm all for aps, aps mean you can't get a virus
It's app, not ap. App is short for "application". An application is a computer program, period. Lotus and Excel are apps. The distinction is not real, it was started by the computer-ignorants in the press. You most certainly CAN get a virus (or rather, a trojan which may include a virus) from a malicious app. So no, you cartainly can NOT "download software off the Internet with a Windows computer." Only install software from a source you know and trust.
Of course they're 15 years late to the party. A lot of people bought Macs because they're harder to get viruses on.
Well, yes, Windows used to have more holes than swiss cheese, you could get a virus simply from viewing a web site or opening an email with XP and earlier. Not only was Mac, Linux and BSD far more secure by design, they were all overshadowed by a big fat easy target, a virus writer would have been insane to target anything but Windows.
If Microsoft would have simply made software unable to escape their install directory like DOS games
Wow, dude, you're full of misconceptions. DOS never did that. Any DOS program could access any part of the computer it wanted to, and most DOS games write directly to hardware (which is why you had to input IEQs on setup).
As to W8's market share, I'm saddened by the fact that I want a new notebook but at every place I've shopped, there would be no W7 computers, 5 or 10 W8 computers, and 1 or 2 Chromebooks. No thanks; I don't want a phone OS on a notebook and I don't want to have to be on the network to use a notebook, so both OSes are out for me.
It is even arguable that if they were smart you could make a Windows ap, and it'd work on Android and iPhone too.
You don't know much about computers, do you? It seems that it wouldn't be hard to port from Apple to Droid and back, since they're both *nix based, but impossible with Windows. The platform is completely different.
I suggest you lurk for a while, son. You have a lot to learn about computers.
I don't understand why the utilities simply don't build out their grids to accept feed-in from customers' solar rigs
Because they, like the RIAA at the turn of this century, know their days are numbered. The RIAA labels when anyone could make a CD, and the power companies' end will be some time this century when solar panels are cheaper than plumbing in a new home. Why buy when it's cheaper and effortless to make your own?
I see the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries as the "wired centuries" starting with the telegraph, then power lines, and I think the only utility poles you'll see in the 22nd century will be streetlights.
This is not news for nerds. This does not matter.
Blame the Asians and Europeans, because we in the Americas were asleep when this tripe was voted up. There ought to be a few good joke comments, though, so it's OK.
...to raise a child
Yes, and it only takes a child with a Bic to raze a village.
Do yourself in?
Well, TFS did say "Windows 8".
What made me scratch my noggin was "why that OS??" Most Linux distros are superior in almost all ways, BSD most likely is as well (although I haven't messed with BSD and don't know). No W8 computer can possibly equal an Apple computer. Apple is BSD, Windows isn't any *nix at all. Apple's is a full desktop operating system, W8 is for cell phones.
Plus, you're going to buy all those expensive parts and install the crappiest, most expensive OS you can find on it when you can have a far superior OS for absolutely free??
This story is an advertisement for Microsoft. If it weren't it would have utilized a better and cheaper OS, one that didn't suck moth balls.
Now, how long we /.ers can print a wife?
Why would you want one of those?? Hire a maid and find a "friend with benefits" and you don't have to put up with her nagging you and hiding your stuff ("well LOOK for it!") while spending your money. You can tinker with hardware and play video games and read and do anything you want.
A wife? No thanks. Now, my question is, why am I being discriminated against just because I'm single?
Where does hate come in to this equation? When and where did I imply that I hate anyone?
You said "The unshaven fat fucks you describe are beneath contempt, just as any other fat fucks who are to impotent to make a difference in the world. The militant assholes who file a court case every time the hear the name of Christ (or Allah, or Buddha, or Jehovah) are the ones who need to be dragged out behind the barn, for an appointment with a .22 long rifle behind their ears."
That sounds pretty hateful to me.
If you walk out into the street of your home town, and find a pack of wild dogs attacking a child, what do you do? I would destroy the dogs.
You weren't talking about a pack of wild dogs physically attacking a child, you were talking about murdering human beings for filing lawsuits. BIG difference there.
I just want to see the threat that those militant atheists represent to be ended.
They're no threat. As hard as they try and as much as they wish it, there's no way they'll ever kill religion.
They have no right to impose their world view on other people. Nor do Christians have a right to impose their world view on other people.
Entirely true. There should be no ten commandments in a courthouse; the last I looked, merely wanting someone's property is legal, having sex with your congressman's wife is legal, being atheist is legal, but the ten commandments say they're sins (which they of course are). Government should have nothing to do with marriage whatever; why does a childless married couple pay less in tax than a widow with a child who earns the same? If governments were not in the marriage business (and marriage is a religious institution) this "gay marriage" nonsense would have never started. Kansas and Texas should stop trying to push creationism as a scientific theory, because it isn't.
If atheists want to waste their money on lawsuits and billboards, let them. They won't shake my faith, or the faith of anyone who has had God touch them.
Maybe if there weren't so many wolves in sheep's clothing (like that Baptist "church" in Florida that pickets military funerals that's really a bunch of lawyers, and you know what Christ said about lawyers) the atheists might shut up. They just don't realize that there are people who pretend to be Christians. There are an awful lot of people who claim to worship God but in reality worship money and power. These people are far more dangerous than any atheist, no matter how militant.
Christ, if he existed (there's no evidence for that), wasn't born on the 25th -- or even in December,
Biblical scholars say that Dec 25 was the date of conception.
Santa isn't a Christian symbol. The tree isn't a Christian symbol. Commercialism and gift giving isn't a Christian symbol.
Very true. Saint Nicholas was a real priest, but he was a mortal man who died.
contradicts itself repeatedly,
Examples?
lacks validation by even one direct, contemporaneous witness
The 1st century Roman historian Josephus
Every once in a while, one of you starts to think clearly, and that's the end of the magical thinking.
And once in a while one of you finds God, although I personally know only one such person, who was raised in an atheist household and found God after a bout of homelessness.
Of course religion can be misused by evil men, there is nothing in the world that can't be.
I'm not the imaginary Christian that everyone expects to turn the other cheek though.
You should try it, it works. Fighting hate with hate just feeds the hate, love dissipates hate. Those militant atheists? How can you hate the pitiful? The poor fools are doomed unless they see the light.
There's no room for hatred in Christianity; hatred is from Satan. Love those who hate you, do good to those who persecute you. That is the essence of Jesus' message.