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    What you did today

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    Congrats, that is outstanding!

     

    Thanks!

     

    We were speaking of feeling old earlier, when I started coming to this board you, Krookie, Pixies, heck even Calax were all kids! Wild stuff.

     

    A quick check tells me you were here long before me, but yeah, I know what you mean- I was a freshman in highschool when i joined here... Now I feel old...

     

    Except me. I'll be the dumbass that falls off a ladder while hanging a fan or something. :p

     

    :p:lol: :lol:

    Australians prove existence of dark energy (first posited by Einstein)

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    So aussieland finally did something good for the world... 'Bout damn time...

     

    Seriously though, mad props to the research team... And Krez, the thing with QFT is that it really only deals with special relativity, so it doesn't work with curvature and such... String theory does, but for the tme being it doesn't make a single goddamn experimental prediction, so it's not really a fully valid theory....

    Obsidian debates -1

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    Indeed. GR was proven to accurately describe the structure of spacetime around around the Earth by Gravity Probe B just this year. Specifically it confirmed the existence of frame-dragging and the geodetic efffect. That said, you know, it's still possible (probable if we give humans enough time) a theory with even more accurate predictive power will come along and knock it over (c.f. Relativity and Newtonian mechanics). One day.

     

    Definitely. The thing is, though, that its sure as hell NOT QM, so since GR requires determinism, I think those interpretations that fit in to that framework ought to be given special consideration.

    Obsidian debates -1

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    Thread is tl;dr so I'll just say this:

     

    Spacetime isn't something that is believed in or not; that's the premise of religion, not science. Spacetime is real, but not necessarily in the sense that the table I'm writing this on is: it can't be seen, or felt. It merely is. We can measure it, and its effects- if that's an illusion, then your monk's right, but as far as I'm concerned he's wrong.

     

    As for the probabilistic/deterministic debate, we simply don't know enough about wavefunction-collapse yet to say anything definite. I personally think the notion of a probabilistic universe is a little far-fetched, but **** it, even if the universe is probabilistic, quantum effects go away on the macro scale, so its not all that unrealistic. Bohm (and for that matter, EPR [even if their math doesn't quite work, I'm talking about the idea here]) can't be ignored because Bohr said so- the math itself simply describes probabilities; it doesn't say absolutely that there is no way to determine which outcome will occur given knowledge of initial conditions. Remember, QM describes things as waves which in some sense can be described merely in terms of first-order derivatives and initial positions.

     

    Also, since GR correctly describes a larger group of situations [that we know absolutely have come to pass- i.e. star formation] it inherently ought to be given a deep, deep consideration.

    What you did today

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    Hubs has one of those Xoom tablets for a week (he's testing it to see if a client wants/should get a bunch, vs. ipads) and so I tried it. The screen is very nice looking. The size and weight isn't bad. But...

     

    ...these touchpad tablet keyboards suck. They're too small to actually hover your hands over the 'keys' like a proper keyboard and so you're still hunting and pecking. There's a small delay/lag between you hitting a key and it showing up on screen so it's confusing. Having to hit a key to switch between numbers & letters. The keys are so sensitive that even a slight brush with a finger types a letter etc. It took me 2 minutes to type a 100 chr tweet w/out any errors in it.

     

    Also, webbrowsing, the 'slide the finger' to scroll is annoying if a webpage has too many buttons that you're going to hit constantly while making the motion.

     

    Do you ever get used to all that or ... ? Gawd I'm an old fart.

     

    I just got an iPad (typing this on it, so forgive typos)... The keyboard is meh, but eminently usable... The purpose if these tablets for the time being media consumption rather than creation- the screen is more for watching than typing , hence the inherent difficulty in typing on it... I loves it though... Also, it's shiny

    You won The lottery

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    Hooker and cocaine party... You'd all be invited.

    Do you have tiger blood?

     

    I would if I was a millionare... I'd be banging 7 gram rocks, because that'd be how I'd roll.

     

     

    WINNING!

     

    The Vatican Assassin Warlock does not approve of your misquote. :lol:

    Mass Effect 3

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    Shepard getting assimilated better be one possible ending.

     

    In fact, I regret wiping out the Council as a Renegade. What can be more satisfying than showing up at the Citadel with a Reaper horde and shove it in the face of that Turian councilor?

     

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    Smartphones

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    Android; root it and rom it. In terms of unlocking, for example, here's an easy method to dump an Evo (Sprint's showcase phone, which I can't imagine living without) onto Metro. From a software standpoint, its entirely possible, but you're mileage may vary based on what carrier you use. Additionally, many GSM phones can be moded to work on any carrier with appropriate bands, although performance is occasionally suboptimal. Its also possible to buy some phones (usually GSM) factory-unlocked, which basically means you grab a SIM and go.

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