Lare Kikkeli

I just don't understand the appeal of apple products to people who are not totally computer illiterate. They're less powerful, more expensive and have a lot less software available than a PC or even a Linux. Why would anyone in their right mind buy a mac pro for twice the cost of a similar PC would be? This is coming from someone who worked with macs (graphics & layout design) for years and has owned many apple products. I'll never buy another apple product until they start offering me more than flashy design. Me owns: Self assembled PC Creative Zen mp3 player Nokia phone has owned: Ipod Powermac G4 Powerbook Worked with a Powermac, both g5 and Intel, mac mini, powerbook and multiple iMacs, with OS's ranging from OS9 to Snow Leopard.

What gorth said is kind of silly. We are limited by light speed like we are limited by time flowing forward instead of backward. For some reason our universe seems to have a score of unbreakable laws that kind of keep it together and running as it does. Sure you can believe that at some point our brilliant engineering will crush even the laws of physics themselves, but that's against all evidence we have and no different than believing magic is real.

Because the speed of light is (according to the theory of relativity) the ultimate limit of transferring information. No information can be sent faster than light or it will break causality. The information, say the result of the calculation made by a processor, can not reach us faster than a photon because that would break the laws of physics. Neither can the calculation itself happen faster than the speed of light. Now that I read that article again it does seem to put a limit on how fast a single processor can be, separate from light speed. I doubt it's even near the physical limit of transferring information.

I'm aware of that experiment, but it still will not allow faster than light travel. Faster than light travel, as far as we know, would break causality.

I agree. It's nonsense. Gravity is already known to deliver effects at beyod the speed of light. Therefore light is not the measure of speed. You're right, gravital waves (which we haven't observed yet, it's all theoretic) would have to be faster or at least as fast as light. But would we be abled to send information with them? Can we even observe them? Can a quark exist by itself? There's so much stuff we don't know, but assuming everything is possible since there's so much we don't know is a logical fallacy. Can effects be delivered faster than light and can WE deliver information faster than light are two completely differerent question.

That's against the theory of relativity, which while not perfect (it all breaks down on the quantum level) has been spot on so far. I'm not sure how much physics you know so I'll tell ya, going faster than light would be pretty damn weird. So weird that our 3 dimensional brains couldn't understand it.

Whats news is that we'll hit the limit in 75 years, not that there's a limit. Actually we won't get very near light speed in computation since accelerating any object with mass, no matter how small, to light speed will take more energy than there is available in the visible universe. Quantum computation will solve the issue with transistors, but it still won't let us break the laws of physics. Just came up with an example: you have a 1 kg block of something, say hash, and you halve it. then you take one of the halves and halve it, take one of the halves & cut, then half etc. Every time you divide your block you need to use more energy. you can never reach 0, since your energy consumption goes up with every cut. at some point, as you're getting closer and closer to 0, your energy consumption gets higher and higher, and the max it can reach is infinite. since there's a finite amount of energy in the universe you can never reach 0. it's same with light speed, the closer you get the more energy you use. getting to light speed would take an infinite amount of energy so it's impossible. you can get close, but at some point the energy consumption gets so big that it's basically unattainable.

Lulz. This is funny as I do not think that you fully understand what you are talking about. Lulz why don't you enlighten me. "Lulz," good job counteracting my examples of David Ashenfelter and Al Jazeera. Hilarious. He's good at cherry picking quotes. All the hard ones get left behind.

Man, that post is so pissy that you should just take a break from posting.

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Yeah and they also air a lot of stuff that wouldn't probably be commercially viable but has artistic merit, like old or independent movies, documentaries, TV shows and movies from other than english speaking countries etc. It's one aspect of our moderate socialism I really like.

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HELLO MY NAME IS BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA I AM DIPLOMAT FROM KENYA. I HAVE RECENTLY ACQUIRED OVER $1MILLION (US) AND I NEED A SAFE BANK ACCOUN IN US TO STORE MONEY IN

I've been buying stuff from the US and UK like crazy the past few years. It's awesome.

Well kind of, but it mostly just shows how wasteful you are.

"Internationally respected Siamese twin surgeon Dr. Josef Heiter has a demented vision for mankind

Not that I don't admire Finnish heroism against overwhelming odds, but that's just not the case. Finns asked the Soviets for terms, and agreed to give up Finnish territory. By any definition that's not a victory. At best the loss wasn't as bad as it could've been. We resisted their invasion and kept our sovereignity. By your standards everything except total annexation or destruction of one side is not a victory. Playing too many computer games perhaps?

Reading back a few pages...lol All I can say is USA is a better place to live if you're rich. Otherwise Finland wins in every aspect (looking at numbers that is, individual opinions may differ I guess). Unless you're a shade darker than snow white that is, but I guess that's the deal in the states as well. There's a lot of nanny state bull**** and conservatism here, as well as some darker sides of moderate socialism (I'm serving mandatory national service at the moment, military or work for no pay for 12 months). Wrath of Dagon, you can crash at my place if you ever decide to visit. edit: We won the winter war. Plain simple. Baltic countries didn't. Actually the allied forces declared war on Finland at some point because we allied with the Nazis to keep the USSR away. Necessary evil. Then a few years later we tried to get back the land we lost and that didn't end so well but eh who remembers losses anyway... Also Russia was kept at bay in the following years thanks to good trade and diplomatic relations. And to actually contribute to the topic, it's a peace prize named after the man who invented (and made a fortune by) modern land and sea mines. Nobel himself would have 0 chance of winning his own prize.

Wow, Krezack actually makes sense. US imposed sanctions on Japan because of their illegal and extraordinarily brutal invasion of China. There was nothing at all wrong with those sanctions. Most of you need to study up on history before you start whining about US imperialism, which by the way saved most of your dumb asses repeatedly. The attack on Iraq was illegal and brutal. The world is not black and white. Actually Finland was allied with Germany and at war with Russia, who we fought and won. Then ze germans burned half of our country while retreating. The US had their nukes aimed at Helsinki during the cold war. So you haven't saved us once.

Quite a beautiful country. Shame about the accent. I've actually been entertaining the thought of moving there. They've got a lively underground metal scene so finding a band to play in should be no problem. They also seem not to have been hit as hard by the financial crisis as europe so there might actually be some work. I know the language and hate cold weather. Maoris also fascinate me.

It's always kind of useless discussing politics or war history with americans. The same people who condemn 9/11, Iran etc. don't see anything wrong with the US supporting Pinochet and other right wing dictators all over the world. Nor do they condemn the completely illegal attack on Iraq (carried on despite the UN voting against it) to secure american interests regarding oil and military supremacy in the middle east. Not to mention the war on terror, illegal prisons all over the world, turning a blind eye to torture, rape and murder made by Us military personnel or private security companies, CIA black ops... I hope to god Finland never joins NATO. We're geographically in an awkward position, located right in the arm pit or Russia yet trying hard to belong in the west. I envy New Zealand. I'm not defeding AQ or Iraq or Iran, but to see the US as the good guy as opposed to highly ruthless imperialists who will do anything to further their interests is really one sided and naive.

Fun how? sarcasm or psychotic