Man, i didn't know people still had to put up with that crap. I just assumed once AdBlock became so prevalent they just got rid of it.
Anyways, if you dont know what adblock is, you dont belong on slashdot. However, if you can't get Adblock to work like it should, you should check out http://www.pierceive.com/.
It will cover all of your adblock list needs. It even has an autoupdater, so you can stay up to date, even if your forgetful like me.
You've obvioulsy never heard of a little game called Fable.
The developers started talking about it 2 years before its release, and hyped it up to be the best thing in the world with all these amazing features. Problem is, by the time it was released, 90% of those features had been cut due to problems with implementation, and time and budget limits.
Hyping up a product should only be done when you know exactly what the product is, because otherwise, you just spent a bunch of advert money on something that is never going to exist.
What makes you so sure we aren't seeing bad effects? Skyrocketing cancer and obesity rates, low fertility, autoimmune disorders unknown 50 years ago...
Yes, but we did have plenty of other diseases and severe illnesses that have been irradicated. So, perhaps they have just been replaced by these new diseases. It's a sort of natural population control. Irradicate smallpox => more people alive => higher number of living people with cancer gene => more people with cancer gene breading => even higher number of living people with cancer gene, etc. etc. etc.
How many people have to do something, completely out in the open, not ashamed at all, scolded by only the most conservative (not necessarily conservative in the political sense), before its considered socially acceptable, and therefore ethical?
I'm not saying we should do away with copyright law, just as I'm not saying speed limits should be eradicated. There is a reason each of these exist.
However, there is a point at which we should notice a need for reform. Perhaps we aren't there yet - but we will be.
If you are a believer in General Relativity (which I think it is impossible not to be once you understand it), and you fully understand it (or close enough), then you should understand that Gravity is merely a side effect of the theory itself.
Going back to the metaphor of a ball on a rubber film, the ball stretches the film around it. The closer to the ball, the more streched the film is. This film is actually a near perfect metaphor for spacetime. The mass of the ball (a planet) stretches the film (spacetime) as a function of distance between the two. When another object near the ball tries to follow a straight path past the ball, the bend in spacetime gives the illusion of the object falling towards the ball (and vica-versa). The film is a good representation of spacetime because the distance between the objects can be thought of as space, while the dip in the film can be thought of as time.
Now imagine that the entire system (object, ball and film) are moving through time. In order to picutre this, imagine them all falling downwards (in the direction of the dip) relative to you. This shows that the difference in the amount of dip caused by the objects can be thought of as their relative position in time. Relative to the lighter object, the ball has a greater dip, and is therefor further ahead in time.
Now what would happen if the ball suddenly dissapeared? The stretched film would stop moving relative to the veiwer outside. However, relative to the the plane of the film, it is getting closer and closer to the plane of the film. It is almost like it hit a wall in time, and as time keeps moving, more of the film hits the wall until the wall is even with the plane of the film. This shows how an object closer the the dip would feel the lack of a dip sooner than an object farther away, because it would itself be farther down in the dip. This also shows that the speed at which the object felt the lack of a dip can be represented as a function of the distance (radius from the dip) divided by the time (or the depth of the dip).
In conclusion, from an outside frame of reference, one object actually does not feel another objects gravity until a certain amount of time has passed, and that time is exactly the distance divided by the speed of light.
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Man, i didn't know people still had to put up with that crap. I just assumed once AdBlock became so prevalent they just got rid of it.
Anyways, if you dont know what adblock is, you dont belong on slashdot. However, if you can't get Adblock to work like it should, you should check out http://www.pierceive.com/.
It will cover all of your adblock list needs. It even has an autoupdater, so you can stay up to date, even if your forgetful like me.
What did people do before firefox?
You've obvioulsy never heard of a little game called Fable.
The developers started talking about it 2 years before its release, and hyped it up to be the best thing in the world with all these amazing features. Problem is, by the time it was released, 90% of those features had been cut due to problems with implementation, and time and budget limits.
Hyping up a product should only be done when you know exactly what the product is, because otherwise, you just spent a bunch of advert money on something that is never going to exist.
What makes you so sure we aren't seeing bad effects? Skyrocketing cancer and obesity rates, low fertility, autoimmune disorders unknown 50 years ago...
Yes, but we did have plenty of other diseases and severe illnesses that have been irradicated. So, perhaps they have just been replaced by these new diseases. It's a sort of natural population control.
Irradicate smallpox => more people alive => higher number of living people with cancer gene => more people with cancer gene breading => even higher number of living people with cancer gene, etc. etc. etc.
How many people have to do something, completely out in the open, not ashamed at all, scolded by only the most conservative (not necessarily conservative in the political sense), before its considered socially acceptable, and therefore ethical?
I'm not saying we should do away with copyright law, just as I'm not saying speed limits should be eradicated. There is a reason each of these exist.
However, there is a point at which we should notice a need for reform. Perhaps we aren't there yet - but we will be.
If you are a believer in General Relativity (which I think it is impossible not to be once you understand it), and you fully understand it (or close enough), then you should understand that Gravity is merely a side effect of the theory itself.
Going back to the metaphor of a ball on a rubber film, the ball stretches the film around it. The closer to the ball, the more streched the film is. This film is actually a near perfect metaphor for spacetime. The mass of the ball (a planet) stretches the film (spacetime) as a function of distance between the two. When another object near the ball tries to follow a straight path past the ball, the bend in spacetime gives the illusion of the object falling towards the ball (and vica-versa). The film is a good representation of spacetime because the distance between the objects can be thought of as space, while the dip in the film can be thought of as time.
Now imagine that the entire system (object, ball and film) are moving through time. In order to picutre this, imagine them all falling downwards (in the direction of the dip) relative to you. This shows that the difference in the amount of dip caused by the objects can be thought of as their relative position in time. Relative to the lighter object, the ball has a greater dip, and is therefor further ahead in time.
Now what would happen if the ball suddenly dissapeared? The stretched film would stop moving relative to the veiwer outside. However, relative to the the plane of the film, it is getting closer and closer to the plane of the film. It is almost like it hit a wall in time, and as time keeps moving, more of the film hits the wall until the wall is even with the plane of the film. This shows how an object closer the the dip would feel the lack of a dip sooner than an object farther away, because it would itself be farther down in the dip. This also shows that the speed at which the object felt the lack of a dip can be represented as a function of the distance (radius from the dip) divided by the time (or the depth of the dip).
In conclusion, from an outside frame of reference, one object actually does not feel another objects gravity until a certain amount of time has passed, and that time is exactly the distance divided by the speed of light.
This time around, it feels like the market is a little smarter and not as willing to believe the bullshit.
Only the people on slashdot. If you go talk to the average consumer, they believe all the hype, and all the BS being thrown at them.