Well it's been suggested that some of the Supersymmetric particles might be an explanation for Dark Matter which does appear to exist. Other than that, I'm not sure that Supersymmetry has much going for it these days.
More accurately, The Standard Model is the best theory we have right now but it's incomplete since it doesn't account for gravity and has a lot of parameters that are just there without a good explanation for them. Supersymmetry is an idea that is the basis for a lot of people's pet theories because it helps explain a lot of what the Standard Model does not by bringing in a lot of extra particles.
Those particles, if they exist, make other particles like the electron behave just a little differently than they do under the Standard Model. And this experiment provided evidence that supports the Standard Model and rules out a number of Supersymmetric pet theories. Whether or not it will rule them all out remains to be seen.
Fine, we'll install WINE along with apt. They'll never know the difference.
This is impossible, no private enterprise builds infrastructure, works on long term projects, etc. Only governments do that.
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For the sarcastically challenged: Ellison is expecting some form of a return from this purchase, all purchases that are not for consumption are investments and he is not going to 'consume' his properties, so whatever it is he does with infrastructure, etc., it's all designed to try and create revenue streams, which is what private enterprise does and which is why infrastructure projects should all be privately funded, then their economic viability, success or failure are on the backs of the owners and not tax payers.
Well once someone owns nearly everything as Mr. Ellison does on the island of Lanai, is the distinction between government and the one super wealthy individual in question really that distinct anymore?
Well once someone owns nearly everything as Mr. Ellison does on the island of Lunai, is the distinction between government and this one super wealthy individual really that distinct anymore?
This is just as creepy as all the prism crap:/
At least at the grocery store you can get beef, beer, and potato chips. Now try getting that from the NSA.
The same Palin that had quotes miss-attrributed to her that were spoken by a half rate SNL actress...
Admittedly she must have been a reasonable actress if people were quoting her and thinking that they were quoting Palin.
Tina Fey is an excellent actress and her "I can see Alaska from my house!" joke wasn't too far from Palin's actual words.
That's fine with me. They can have their ABC Family and Christian Broadcasting with their family friendly TV and I'll take my HBO with its Game of Thrones.
If you really want to be precise about it then that old lady did not claim that Obama is a Muslim, she claimed that he is an Arab.
People value a smaller, prettier phone over an easily removed battery.
People who keep their small, pretty phone in a bulky, ugly case.
Posting from my Nexus 4 for the irony.
I tend to agree with the notion that Google would prefer to see SD cards go away. I upgraded from an EVO 3D with all kinds of bugs related to its micro-SD card. It was constantly running "out of storage space" despite the fact that it's 32GB card was only half full. The problem would crop up constantly when updating apps. Some apps would update happily, including games of more than 1GB in size. But other apps, including newer apps designed specifically to run on Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0), would throw up the out of storage space error. (Facebook for example had to be uninstalled and reinstalled with every update once I'd installed more than a few dozen apps.)
Then I upgraded to Google’s own Nexus 4 and all those bugs went away. I now have half the storage of my old phone but none of the headaches. I have a installed a hundred or more apps and my new phone has never once complained about being low on storage. I can't store my entire music collection on my phone but I can stream it with Google Music. And it's so much faster than my old phone! I've yet to experience a moment of lag despite having loaded up my phone with apps. Would I like to have have the option to install extra storage space via an SD or micro-SD slot? Of course! But I'd rather not return to the headaches of my old phone's highly flawed expansion card support.
An older phone like the EVO 4G; rooted, with Cyanogen Mod installed in Airplane Mode? Seriously, I'm not aware of any wifi-only 4' Android tablets. (Although I'll bet Archos probably has one that no one buys.)
I'd rather have an F-22. At least that's a real plane now. Or better yet, an SR-71. Or while we're fantasizing, a YF-12, the missile armed variant of the SR-71. There's nothing cooler than a hypersonic dogfighter.
...instead of thinking "they spent $60,000 of our tax dollars on this?" You think, "Why are they using Next Generation uniforms on an Original Series set?"
It's hardly FUD when people who've used Google products for years, rightly or wrongly, complain when Google discontinues them. And it's also not FUD when these same people wonder how long the latest Google product lasts.
Credit ... is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man. -- James Blish
