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omega is the symbol of choice for angular frequency, which is very related to pi, as angular frequency = 2 pi frequency (there is another 2 pi for you right there).
Rational numbers have more to do with ratios than reason.
No Joke -- Win7 has really changed all this IME.

I use an iMac at work. I like it. (I prefer the way my mouse feels in Windows but aside from that, I enjoy the iMac a great deal).

Still, I think Win7 is the best consumer OS i've ever used.

And specifically to the point you're making -- I got used, with the iMac, to keeping the box up for ages, 30, 60, 90 days at a time. Just by habit I've done the same with my Win7 box at home. Wasn't even stunning to me until I realized one day "Oy! I've got a Win box that's been up for 40 days and feel as snappy as day 4."

I tell you what, you can hold on to your bias or not, your choice, but this is a great OS and a great starting point for them in Redmond for Win8.
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I can't follow your logic. You say science is making testable hypothesises, and you claim water can not have memory. So where is the testable hypothesis in that? Either you can test that hypothesis ("water can't have memory"), or you are being unscientific?

Also, is there debate about gravity working? I think it has been tested, so it is not at all the same thing. It would be more like saying "anti-gravity is impossible" (maybe it is, no idea).

I am not interested in Homoeopathy, just in proper arguing.
That's a fair criticism.

> The reason we know that Homeopathy doesn't work is because it can't be made to work beyond a normal placebo in testing.

That's true, but it's a separate point from what was being discussed. As someone else pointed out in this thread, there's the "we tested it and it doesn't work" argument, and there's also the "it violates the current body of science" argument. These are two different, but related, things, and they reinforce each-other. I was focusing on the "it violates the current body of science" approach.

You do have a fair point about unknowns in general; a good example is the germ model of disease, which is a relatively recent development.

However, one of my big beefs with homeopathy is that it doesn't say, "we don't know what the mechanism is" -- which would be OK with me, because "I don't know" is a perfectly acceptable answer in science! -- and it doesn't provide a plausible mechanism that fits within the current scientific body. Rather, instead it presents a "scientific-sounding" mechanism that actually flies in the face of what we do know.

Even if I were to concede that water could have a "memory" of some kind -- and that would be a terrible and involved battle -- I would be unwilling to concede that that particular explanation could possibly work within our current understanding of biochemistry, because this particular aspect of biochemistry is fairly well understood. And, as DaveChild keeps pointing out, a homeopathic proponent would also have to explain how the "memory" from the water ends up in a sugar pill which contains no water. :-) (I would require some kind of explanation there simply because otherwise it would make no sense as a delivery method.)
> ...that it won't harm you...

In fact, it won't have any effect on you at all!

(I kid. Sort of.)
Sorry, just something I remember reading in a forum post a while ago. I think that forum may have been Slashdot. The gist of it being that the original specs made room for a lot of features that Windows didn't support at the time, and Windows has slowly been adding them as time moves along (i.e. hardlinks, symlinks, etc).

The closest I can come on Wikipedia is:

> It is also clear that NTFS owes some of its
> architectural design to Files-11 used by VMS.
> This is hardly surprising since Dave Cutler was
> the main lead for both VMS and Windows NT.
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That's totally different then. WINE is just an implementation of the Windows API that also sand boxes windows applications into one area. Since windows actually has their API they could pull this off much better than WINE does.
Oy. I'm _so_ sick of people talking of one software company "copying" another as if it's a bad thing.

Look around in the rest of the world mate. Look at the checkout lines at Target! They're exactly like Walmart! Which are exactly like Safeway! Look at the layout of every grocery store you've ever been in. Look at each boutique in the shopping mall. All the same!

When people say "intuitive" they mean "familiar." They may not realize it, but that's what "intuitive" _actually_ means.

You've got an e-commerce site? You should liberally borrow/steal from Amazon's checkout process. You've got an OS? Take from Apple who've been setting a baseline for OS usability.

Christ. "X is copying Y" is about as inane as it gets to me.
It actually came from a quote taken out of context by Sumner Redstone 30 years ago. Wall Street took it to heart over the next few decades leading up to the financial clusterfuck we have now. When asked about that quote, he said, "it is the stupidest thing I've ever said."
For someone that's scientifically minded anecdotes like the ones you've described would actually count against the idea, not for it.

Why? Because human beings are very bad at intuitively interpreting information methodologically, this is why we have things like double-blind trials in the first place. It's very easy to subconsciously stack the odds in your own favor.

I'd encourage you to read up on James Randi and some of the people that compete for his million dollar challenge. Everyone that takes it is equally convinced (as you are) of their woo-woo ideas, and all of them are proven equally wrong.

You aren't immune from deluding yourself, and neither am I. Nobody is, that's why we have a process to factor human error out of the equation. It's called science.

In this case we aren't talking about some harmless and quaint idea. If you continue foistering homeopathy on your loved ones, there's a real possibility that the magical thinking will rub off on on them. And they'll subsequently neglect to seek real medical attention when they have a problem that can't be solved by a glass of water and a friendly smile.
I would have said that their key differentiating feature was that they were much better at actually finding relevant stuff than the competitors.

I don't think many people stopped using AltaVista because it was too slow.
Everybody, seriously, watch that video. Awesome. A lot of wisdom about creating community (or "caring about people who care about the shit you do").
Your logic is deeply flawed. Why would you assume I would wanto to help Microsoft?
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Exactly. Every new windows system takes me about 2 days to set up. Every default seems to be wrong, so I spend so much time rediscovering how to change it again.

On Mac I'm set up in an hour or two. Either the default is right, quick to change, or too much trouble to change to be worth the bother.
The first thing that shows up on my machine is a huge "handbags sale, 80% off" on the top right. I really wondered where I had landed!
There's a fantastic video online somewhere of a martial arts instructor that had built a practice out of some form of "energetic combat", where he would run around and wave his arms, and his students -- somehow convinced that it worked -- would helpfully fall over.

Then one day there was a challenge from a more traditional martial practitioner. The sensei was quite surprised when his unconvinced opponent did not fall down like he was supposed to.

And even more surprised when he got smacked in the face.

Unfortunately, rather than grapple with the realization that he had been practicing nonsense for years, IIRC he came up with some woo-woo excuse for why it didn't work that day, or on that opponent.

EDIT: Found it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEDaCIDvj6I
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you're right. i forgot about that when i was writing. thanks!
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Check out the captions. I particularly enjoyed, "missiles and lifetime what's the problem"
The question should be: "Will it make a difference that degrades user experience".

If no user ever notices, who cares?

Most programmers don't use assembly language. Their code is full of redundancy and inefficient bloat. But it's a trade off, and most people don't really mind too much.

To many, HTML/CSS is machine code. Some love hand crafting it, some leave it to automated 'compilers' to create it, and just like all compilers, that means you often end up with inefficient mess.
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This sounds like a good description of Silverlight out-of-browser applications. I wonder why he didn't mention them.
No, you don't understand packaging systems.

The packaging system (RPM, deb) tracks files installed anywhere on the filesystem, including ones in /etc/bash.completion.d/, and will remove all of them when the application is uninstalled. "Symlink magic", whatever that is, won't help at all.
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4. Work and sleep. A good chair at the workplace and a good mattress with pillow at the sleeping place.
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Au contraire, Steve Jobs responded to a mail asking him if the Mac was dead with "You couldn't be more wrong." and a "Stay tuned" type phrase (can't seem to find the link right now).

I haven't gone through these slides thoroughly because I'm done with Microsoft peddling vapourware and getting our hopes up (coughCouriercough) only to sack the entire team (or whatever they did recently), but whatever I saw showed me a tighter integration with using the cloud as storage. The problem here is that Microsoft is trying to make a faster, leaner and better looking truck (to borrow Jobs' description) because it has lost the mobile game; at least for now. They're trying to maintain the status quo, but nothing in the last 10 years has shown me anything that tells me they will succeed. I don't believe in their ability to execute.
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http://1wt.eu/articles/guruplug-slow-heater/

The heat seems to be a design issue - he mentions the bus being only 16 bits wide. I'd hate to think ARM chips don't scale up after all...

Here's performance numbers from a "SheevaPlug". Seems about half the power of an equivalent intel CPU, but its floating point performance is about 1/35 (like, really bad; no hardware FP). File serving isn't FP intensive though. Around about a "P3 800Mhz". http://computingplugs.com/index.php/SheevaPlug_Performance

The SheevaPlug was the predecessor of the GuruPlug http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SheevaPlug
The "visual introduction"[1] presents some IMO compelling evidence.

I'm well aware of our strong confirmation bias and the tendency of our brains to detect patterns where none are to be found, but some other examples are striking, like the definition of the golden ratio place at 61.7% of a dialog, for example, and other patterns in the structure of he dialogs at 1/4 of the notes interval (with some nice meta patterns where discussion about music/ harmonics occurs on key intervals).

The author also states that stichometry is mentioned either in a dialogue or in a text written by a disciple of Plato ( I don't remember, and I'm typing this on my phone which makes cross checking a bit of a chore).

Suspicion is legitimate, since this field is dominated by cranks. The auhtor is well aware of this fact, btw, which in my eyes makes him brave because of he discredit this kind of research can lead to in accademic circles.

[1] http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/jay.kennedy/Kenn...
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;-)
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There are two problems in your comment. First you assume, apparently without room for doubt, that the sugar pill contains absolutely no water. Second you assume that the activity is due to some element of fixed quantity.

Beside I don't see any reference to homeopathy in my comment. I only referred to Benveniste experiences which involved only water.

The sugar pill may contain water and contribute to stabilize the active and stable water molecule patterns. Even if there is only few of them, they may replicate themselves and amplify the activity with the same process occurring during the dilution and shaking process.

The theory suggest that the structures are aggregates of water molecule with ionic bound ruptures and rebinding at different locations. The oscillations yields a stable structure. This explains why very low EM frequencies are detected in active water. They are generated by the big structure oscillations. Recording the EM oscillations and replaying them in an inactive water, may induce the same ionic oscillations and the formation of the same patterns.

It is also commonly assumed that the activity is due to the chemical molecule itself. But if the molecule is polarized, the polarized water molecules will surround it and extend the polarization zone. The biological interaction could then be due to the water envelope around the molecule. The induced polarization would then have a particular shape. The structure can be stabilized by electron movements in the structure across water molecules.

By growing the structure would sort of take a print of the chemical molecule behaving like a sort of crystal seed. Shaking water would break the cluster and generate new crystal seeds, but made only of water molecules.

This would of course work only for particular type of chemical molecules and activity. Water behaves then like an amplifier and replicating system which could in some case have alternating negative and positive prints of the molecule or active structures.

This would be easy to test, but my father doesn't have the required apparatus and the time because he works on many other subjects. He is close to 80 years now.

Believe what you want. All I want to say is that the way Benveniste discovery was handled has nothing to do with science. The referenced comic is just an amplifying replication of the mishandling.
I can imagine good uses for both. The beauty of Mailinator, in some cases, is that you don't receive that mail in your regular inbox. It all depends on what the mail is and why you don't want to give them your email address to begin with.
Ask HN: I have time and energy but I don't find good ideas
I'm in a very good financial situation right now and I probably won't have to work for the next year or so.

However even though I get new startup ideas every day none seems good enough to actually start investing time and resources in it. Most of the time, it either seems like 1) I would need at least 2 more people (I don't know anyone in real life who is into startups enough to do it with me), or 2) initial funding is non-trivial (I can sustain myself but I don't have money to invest).

Is it a psychological issue, and does it mean I'm not motivated enough? Or is it actually hard to find ideas that can be made profitable by only 1 person + hard work?

Note : I live in France and my skillset is purely technical.
What strikes me at first glance is that he seems to believe that whatever manuscripts we have somehow respect Plato's text formatting. All of these manuscripts are between 500 and 1800 years younger than Plato (I suppose that the picture shows either the Parisii or Vaticani papyrus). Didn't this guy read all the wonderful commentaries philologists write in the introduction of modern editions? The treasures of patience needed sometimes to even make sense of the manuscript?
Everyone has great advice.

I recommend learning a language or 5. Ocaml, Erlang, Lojban, Japanese, Quenya, etc. Use Mnemosyne and Smart.fm for quick, cumulative study sessions, translate webcomics and such, play golf with old programs in new and differently powerful languages.

Also, read more. You'd be amazed at how many great SF novels you can read in a year, or how quickly you can devour Misner's Gravitation at a few pages a day.

I think the overwhelming point of all this advice is to have fun. Do things that induce flow.
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> That's really the thing here to me, as a geek. What does Windows 8 have to offer me to impress me and make me happy as a user? The ability to partition seamlessly; the ability to force a partitioning over errors if I want to; the ability to reinstall seamlessly as many times as I need to, to burn reinstallation software as many times as I need to; the ability to easily and directly configure boot parameters, and to make a boot sturdy and permanent for all users on a machine running multiple partitions with differing encryption levels; finally, direct manipulation of inodes/indexes. These are all things which are still, so far as I can tell, flatly impossible within the context of Windows; and where any of them is possible, it's only with the help of expensive software. Whereas a person with a free, burned copy of Knoppix on a disk can do all of them in five minutes with any computer she choose.

Then use Knoppix. Seriously. You just described yourself in the top 1% of computer geeks, and geeks are not part of Microsoft's core market anyway. You want to directly manipulate indexes and inodes?!?! Come on; Microsoft has no time for you, nor should it.

Of course things like different encryptions for different users of the same machine might make sense (although probably not, since that is pretty enterprisy, so probably happens on a server), but low-level disk partitioning is not the right way for Microsoft to handle them, even if they chose to handle them at all.

> Maybe some of them can answer this; I know they're reasonably intelligent. Do any of you know why Windows won't offer these things? And what we're supposed to do in a world where more and more operating systems do?

1) They don't want your business. 2) You're supposed not to use Windows.
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> ...and you claim water can not have memory. So where is the testable hypothesis in that?

OK, you're right. I need to be more careful in what I'm saying, then.

My claim, specifically, is that science does not have a large enough lack of knowledge about water -- or any other simple chemical -- in the specific areas of chemistry or particle physics, to suggest that there is even an unknown mechanism by which extra-molecular information might be stored in such a chemical, "extra-molecular" here meaning any information which wouldn't otherwise be included naturally as a part of that chemical. Furthermore, I'm saying that, in the absence of such unknowns, and given current knowledge of basic chemistry and physics, such hypothetical information storage would violate the already-accepted principles of those fields.

In other words, I'm placing the burden of proof squarely on the shoulders of the people making the fantastical claim, and I'm justifying that by claiming that we have a large enough body of evidence to support labeling their claim as "fantastical".

Now, if this was the 17th century, and I appeared out of nowhere and proclaimed, "water cannot have memory!" -- then maybe you'd have a point. Instead, there's this wonderfully large body of understanding of chemistry and physics which, while incomplete, is not so incomplete as to leave any room for a method of information storage in basic chemicals without contradicting current knowledge. Thus, "water can not have memory."

If you want to press further on this and challenge my assertion anyway, then I present as evidence the entire body of science. Your move. :-) If you can successfully disprove enough current chemistry or physics to leave the door open for any kind of "memory" in water, then there is probably a large amount of fame and acclaim waiting for you.

(And yes, there is some debate about how gravity works. While general relativity does a neat job of modeling gravity, it is somewhat unsatisfying as an explanation for its mechanism. And also, yes, I would be inclined to say that "anti-gravity is impossible", although with somewhat more reservation, because so far the best explanation for gravity is that it is in fact some kind of side-effect of mass on a space-time environment, so "anti-gravity" would require negative mass, which last time I checked doesn't even make sense -- although I haven't been watching the journals as closely as I used to.)
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Sorry but Jobs had similar things to say about the latest iPhone leading us all to believe something huge was coming. All we got however was an updated iPhone with a few new but under-whelming features. The moral is I wouldn't read much into what Job's says as he'll always be touting his next announcement as "huge" even if it's not.

The first iPod, iPhone and iPad were game changers, the subsequent updates were not. The only revolutionary place that OSX can go is the way of the marketplace/app store and I don't see that happening anytime soon.
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Which law of nature is against the theoretical possibility, though?

Even if water could absorb influences from the homoeopathic medicine, what about all the other things that this water has been in contact with over the centuries? It's not even internally self-consistent.

In the words of W.CV. Fields "I never drink water, fish fuck in it."
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Sure, but the OP specified:

I need access to that data as quickly as possible. Writes are only going to occur quarterly.

The emphasis is on speed and writes are rare, so being disk-oriented wouldn't provide any advantages.
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