Comment Re:If we're going to survive long term (Score 1) 352
You think the surface of the ground that snow sits on is 65 degrees, everywhere? Are you fucked in the head or something?
You think the surface of the ground that snow sits on is 65 degrees, everywhere? Are you fucked in the head or something?
Oh no! The brown people are taking our jobs!
Academic positions being highly sought after are why the whole PhD/post doc/tenure thing sucks so hard and is so abusive.
It's not a bad life when you get tenure. A comfortable living and you get to do what you want to do. Unfortunately, universities sell that unattainable dream to get cheap labors, with TAs/RAs getting paid less than a typical Wal-Mart cashier.
Enjoy being fat and out of shape then, if you don't like exercise.
If you want to use it in a commercial application, you have to give your improvements back to the community.
It's about cooperation and giving back, rather than just leeching other's work. Companies put lots of work into GPL software all the time, not because they're nice guys, but because they want to modify and expand GPL software for their own purposes. This benefits everyone. Sure, the companies might want to keep their derivative works closed, but it benefits everyone more to have it open. It's not like they have anything to complain about. It's free code.
BSD licenses, on the other hand, just encourage leeching.
The average computer user is not going to be monkeying around in the BIOS. This is about making life more difficult for non-MS OSes, and reverting the mistake that was the open x86 platform.
Last I heard he uses Fedora and XFCE4 after leaving the sinking ship that is GNOME 3. (Choice quote: "Who do I need to fuck to get standard font size and panel options, instead of having to wade through this kind of "unsupported and random extensions that look ugly as hell and break randomly" crap?")
Wow we're going to have 19th century steampunk after a solar flare? I'm so hard right now.
Arch Linux (obviously) is using Python 3 by default for a long time. On the scientific side, numpy/scipy and all that stuff are ported, but a lot of other scientific modules still aren't, which sucks.
No one is saying Alcubierre is wrong, but his scheme would violate causality, like every other FTL method. If the universe is non-causal, this wouldn't be a problem. But it probably is.
Still irrelevant. These machines don't violate SR, instead use apparent loopholes on GR.
Another explanation.
More.
Even in cases where SR doesn't apply, it still allows for causality violations (ie time travel) in GR. This is an absolute feature of any method of ftl. It does not matter whether it's a wormhole or a warpdrive or whatever. It sucks, but it's probably telling that every apparent superluminal phenomena (ie quantum tunnelling, entanglement) can't transfer informaton.
For chrissake:
FTL implies at least backwards communication is possible under any method you can think of. If you get get to Alpha Centauri by stuffing yourself in your ass, it will still allow backwards time travel.
IQ is defined as being normally distributed. Thus the mean and the median are the same.
Keurigs make subpar coffee, the coffee things are expensive, and it produces tons of waste.
French press is way, way better, and just as fast.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.