Difference is thin now. Some movies are filmed with Canon 7D camera, that was primarily designed as a picture camera.

Wikileak published these leaked document because they think what is done in Guantanamo is wrong.

Ok, intelligence gathered there has allowed to kill Bin Laden. "The ends justify the means" as we often say. Except that when the means include torture, this still a disgrace for a democracy.

When you receive a mail from Nigeria, explaining you will receive several million dollars if you reply and follow instructions, you are totally certain this is a scam.

With religion this is the same. They are plenty of them, why this one should be true and every other false ? Their claims are extraordinary. They promise immense benefits. At some point, they want a share of your money. It's enough for me to be totally certain religions are scams.

You trash your old code on sourceforge and you hope someone will be interested, will work on it and build a community. This is extremely unlikely.

This is a very good way to kill a project, sure.

Number 7: Without an active community dedicated to keep an open source project alive and evolving, it is useless.

That would just mean stopping science. Performing actual research is the best way to learn a scientific subject. It's the only way, in a sense.

Please read my post again, it is clear enough.

In Europe, you can't patent a "computer program" but you can patent a "Computer-implemented inventions".

Anyway, US market is not something you can't ignore. So even if something is only patented in US, it applies worldwide.

I can't explain better than Tegmark does in the article I linked.

Sure. Actually, things are simpler and paradoxes disappear with Everett interpretation.

Your position is perfectly valid. We don't have a direct access to physical reality itself. Current physics theories are successful but known to be incomplete.

At first view, quantum physic theory (because of the observer role) seems incompatible to physical realism. That is the philosophical stance that there is a reality independent from human mind.

What I wanted to point out earlier is that you can't expect a new, better theory, that supplant current quantum physic and where everything can be explained in a way compatible with common sense.

My feeling is that quantum physic is "true" in a sense that it help us to understand the world. So I tend to think that wave function may have a counterpart in reality itself. This means my preference goes to Everett interpretation.

This article of Tegmark and Wheeler is very good on the subject:
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/quant-ph/pdf/0101/0101077v1.pdf

Am I right if I understand what you think by: "Quantum field theory way to describe a particle by a superposition of two states is too weird to correspond to a physical reality." ?

I agree it is weird. I agree also that goals of a theory in physic is not to describe reality itself.

But, actual experiments demonstrate that it's not only current quantum physic theory that is weird. Any theory that would explain outcome of these experiments will have to include some sort of weirdness. Those experiment proves that naive materialism (Physical reality is based on matter) is wrong. I know that from Bernard d'Espagnat's book "On physics and philosophy.".

Except that other experiments show it doesn't work that way. It's not "you don't know if it's up or down until you measure it", it's you know it's in a superposition state of up and down that "decide" to be only up or only down only when you (or a detector) look at it.

It's because it is much simpler than you assume.

I have just toggled "IPv6" checkbox on my ISP account. Then I went to http://www.kame.net/ and the turtle was dancing. Done.

Thank you AC for explaining the joke, but actually this is not really funny.

This "french surrender" meme comes from french bashing campaign organized when France refused to help US invade Irak. It is now well known that Irak's WMD were a lie. So please stop repeating the same stupid jokes, thanks.

This is still weird format. Using Unix time is much more rational. It is based on the SI unit of time, the second. It avoids the ugly mix of archaic Babylonian base sixty number system and decimal one.