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Comment Re:Sleep kills? (Score 1) 469

by kms_one (#27982747) Attached to: The Dangers of Being Really, Really Tired
As to your addictive illness...solutions:

As a last resort, let 50 spiders loose in your bedroom when the sleeping pangs kick in. If you're even slightly arachnophobic, you'll rather stay awake than go to bed with those crawling around!

Brilliant. Anyone willing to be a guinea pig?
Math

Strings Link the Ultra-Cold With the Super-Hot 236

Posted by Soulskill from the words-of-one-syllable-please dept.
gabrlknght writes "Superstring theory claims the power to explain the universe, but critics say it can't be tested by experiment. Lately, though, string math has helped explain a couple of surprising experiments creating 'perfect liquids' at cosmic extremes of hot and cold. 'Both systems can be described as something like a shadow world sitting in a higher dimension. Strongly coupled particles are linked by ripples traveling through the extra dimension, says Steinberg, of Brookhaven. String math describing such ripples stems from an idea called the holographic principle, used by string theorists to describe certain kinds of black holes. A black hole's entropy depends on its surface area — as though all the information in its three-dimensional interior is stored on its two-dimensional surface. (The 'holographic' label is an allusion to ordinary holograms, where 3-D images are coated on a 2-D surface, like an emblem on a credit card.) The holographic principle has value because in some cases the math for a complex 3-D system (neglecting time) can be too hard to solve, but the equivalent 4-D math provides simpler equations to describe the same phenomena.'"

Comment Disgustipated (Score 1) 628

by kms_one (#27364447) Attached to: Study Suggests Crabs Can Feel Pain
And the angel of the lord came unto me. snatching me up from my place of slumber, and took me on High, and higher still until we moved through the spaces betwixt the air itself. and he brought me into a Vast farmland of our own midwest. and as we descended, cries of impending doom arose from the Soil. one thousand, nay, a million voices full of fear. and terror possessed me then. and I begged: angel of the lord, what are these tortured screams? and the angel said unto me: these are the cries Of the carrots. the cries of the carrot. you see, reverend maynard, tomorrow is harvest day, and to Them, it is the holocaust. and I sprang from my slumber drenched in sweat with the tears of one million Terrified brothers and roared: hear me now, I have seen the light. they have a consciousness! they Have a life! they have a soul. damn you! let the rabbits wear glasses. save our brothers. can I get an Amen. can I get a haleluia. thank you, jesus.

Comment People don't buy Macs for control. (Score 2, Insightful) 535

by kms_one (#26753627) Attached to: Google Earth 5.0 Silently Changes Update Policy
People buy macs because they are streamlined, cool, boxes that you turn on and just use. They don't want the control offered by Linux/Windows. The argument I hear constantly from my brainwashed friends/family who use macs is that it just works without tweaking. (They think that is a good thing...)

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