you'll be surprised how much exercise, sports, meditation, or spending a little bit of time doing something unrelated to your project can help a lot. Unless it's really clinically severe anyone should do their best to avoid anti-depressants.
It was a neutrino that was discovered moving faster than light at CERN, that is what I was referring to. Tyson also mentioned that it is likely a special type of neutrino already moving faster than light is the one being observed (tachyons). What they think we are seeing is a particle that has been moving faster than light but never accelerated to reach that speed, it has been moving at that velocity all the way since before the beginning of time itself.
Will this widen the gap between relativity and quantum mechanics? or will it actually help in finally resolving the disconnect between these two greatest and well tested theories? Particles defying general relativity is well known, but defying special relativity? I can see it going both ways.
Well that's exactly what will happen when anything moves faster than light, it will travel backwards in time. The real question is where is it getting infinite energy to break the light barrier? or are neutrinos the only particles with mass that will not be dragged by the Higgs field?
Maybe the current downturn (bankruptcy filings, closing of CC accounts)is forcing people to start using cash instead of credit. I am a cash person myself, but asking people direct access to their bank accounts would be a hard sell, at least with credit cards there are many situations where they would allow chargebacks. They will have a niche market of cash based merchants, that is for certain. But it is way too early to say that their system can make credit cards obsolete within the next few years. Credit cards are just becoming popular in emerging markets where eCommerce is relatively nascent. The real issue now is securing cross border and long distance payments, being able to provide an unprecedented level of security demanded by the globalizing peer-to-peer and business-to-business transactions.
Monopolies do exist, especially in developing countries. And they tend to control prices when no competition is around. The only reason why monopolies are no longer as dominant in the United States and the West is because of the outlawing of monopolistic practices like hoarding or selling products below costs to kill off smaller competitors. Again I don't deny that government involvement sustains monopolies but monopolies are first created by the free market, and then they kill that very free market that brought them to the top. I think we should do away with campaign contributions and go straight with public financing.
Well my point is that "free market" will destroy "free market". The idea is an unsustainable model because once a winner emerges politics gets involved. I do not deny the fact that government involvement can help sustain a monopoly, but my point is that the creation of a monopoly starts with the free market.
I think the innovations in social media and file sharing will help artists become more independent and distribute their work directly to consumers. The trick is finding a way to monetize this efficiently and minimize the risk of people just getting it for free. Maybe adding advertising per download would be a viable option, I think there are some start-ups that are already doing that.
Unregulated markets do lead to monopoly. Why? Because it is the very nature of competition. There will be a winner (or a few) and most will either be acquired or they will die out. With monopoly comes political power and this leads to crony capitalism. Then the monopoly can now dictate prices and influence both legislation and government regulation. The idea that companies will compete in perpetuity and benefit consumers as a result is flawed. Competition will not last, someone will win.
Steve Wozniak was the real tech wizard, but Steve Jobs was the visionary. Job's ability to empathize with users is beyond belief. He knew what people wanted before they even knew what they wanted. Bill Gates also had a strikingly similar vision. He famously said that "We have to figure out what a person needs that he doesn't know he needs. Then we make him realize that he does need it and we're the only ones who could give him the answer." Maybe he was copying Steve Jobs, wouldn't be the first time.
I agree. Of course I am being Facetious. With the right technology I can imagine a future where every home has solar panels and all cars are electric. We will use nothing but solar power to run our homes and fuel our cars. I did the math and this is all possible.
Even if this becomes successful it will never be sustainable. What will happen when the Sun runs out of Hydrogen to burn? (in 5 billion years) We may have to find another star. Actually that is even less of a problem to worry about because the Sun will start burning Helium. Once it does the pressure pushing outwards from all the nuclear explosions (helium fusion is more efficient in converting mass to energy) at the core will be greater than the gravity pulling everything in, causing the star to expand into a red giant. The Earth will receive far more energy than it really needs and burn into ashes. So either way we are screwed!.....LOL
This is the right move for you. Most start-ups that fail never even launched anything at all. Some are trying to perfect their product before exposing it to beta users then they run out of money. This is a flaw. You can never achieve perfection but the pursuit of it will make one great product. You do this by letting people try them out and get feedbacks from it. Launch quickly and learn fast....good job and good luck!
If everything happens as Mark Zuckerberg envisioned with this timeline then they have to make sure that they save all the information to last thousands if years. If our civilization ends one day and archaeologist from the future discovered Facebook's servers preserved it will tell them everything they need to know about us as a people. How we lived our lives, our dreams, our aspirations, the challenges we overcame. Just imagine if the Romans had this 2,000 years ago, we will see post like "Today I almost died fighting this gladiator from Gaul, good thing he got jumped by that lion first!" I wonder how many likes that post would have made, of course it would be in Latin.....LOL
I think Netflix understands that the future is in streaming and not mailing out physical DVD's. Technology has advanced to a point where we can now watch movies in our flat screens with DVD like qualities from streaming. Mailing out DVD's are costly to the company. The change in price is designed to encourage streaming in my opinion. The more people sign up for the streaming service the more movies they can afford to upload for people to watch. In the long run I think this is a really good strategy. The price increase should have been a little lower though.
I don't understand why antimatter stars would emit more gamma rays than normal matter. The only difference is the charge right? Then mass and energy should be the same. That is why matter and anti-matter annihilate each other completely because neither has more energy/mass than the other, just opposite charge. And if your are referring to galactic collisions between matter and antimatter galaxies most galactic collisions do not result in star collisions because of the vast spaces in between stars within galaxies. But I could imagine gas clouds from the two opposing galaxies could come into contact and turn matter into gamma emissions.
The eventual decline and stagnation was the effect of the decision to close China's doors. But the cause of the end of the expeditions was largely financial. Culture also has an important role to play. The Chinese were not looking for new lands or have any interest in converting people to their religion. They were looking for respect and recognition. They want to prove to the world that China is the undisputed power on Earth and that they are the pinnacle of civilization. They could not have imagined that the world is about to enter into a period of tremendous change so they felt no reason to change their imperial system. How can you change perfection? ...LOL
I agree. The emperor who replaced Zhu Di was more conservative and thought that China should close its doors. He famously said that "The outside world had nothing to offer China, it is too primitive and backwards, leave it alone." This inward looking mentality, fueled by the belief in your own superiority, is the disease of great powers. I am afraid that in some ways the United States has become one, maybe it's a good indicator of a power in decline.
The Chinese explored the Middle East and Africa almost 100 years before the Europeans. Every expedition consisted of 300 ships, some as long as 400 feet with 9 mast and an armada crew totaling 28,000 men. After 30 years of doing it they realized that they were spending too much money on these grand expeditions. The succeeding emperor ended the program. The Europeans on the other hand would send out just a few ships and try to find ways for the expeditions to be profitable (Slaves, gold, land, colonies) in ways the Chinese never thought. These smaller European expeditions could not be stopped by one emperor because Europe was not a unified empire like China. The smaller European kingdoms also competed against each other. This not only made the expeditions sustainable but thrive for the next 500 years. Right now I think we are in China's situation 600 years ago. We stopped the moon landings for the same reason the Chinese stopped landing Eunuchs in Africa. Unless we find a way for these space programs to be profitable I don't see humans colonizing space anytime soon.
Actually 2 weeks could be enough to gain some information and make quick and necessary changes. The early days of a start-up would be the most unpredictable and if you haven't learned anything in two weeks that you need to change or improve upon then you haven't been monitoring your project carefully. It's not the length of time but the level and intensity of activities you went through that counts the most.
Failures and mistakes are good if they are numerous and quick, preferably not committing the same ones over and over again. You learn faster and move on this way. The worst kinds of mistakes are the protracted ones. Sometimes it takes too long and the damage is irreversible. The key is keeping an open mind and always be vigilant. Listen to those around you and ask for advice.
My theory is as long as it contains meaning then that would be considered a "word", the number of syllables is irrelevant. I could arguably say that a word is an "irreducible unit of information" in the human language. For inflectional languages we can reduce the word by taking out prefixes ans suffixes and the root word will still have meaning. But the meaning changes as well so in essence it becomes a completely different word albeit somewhat related.
Actually English has very few syllables compared to Filipino or Spanish. Nearly a third of the words are one syllable and most of the multiple syllable words have either Latin, French, or Greek origin. I think there was an attempt by early humans to make words have as less syllables as possible to simplify communication. Then as our thoughts became more complex they either changed the tone of the syllable (as in Chinese) or added prefixes and suffixes to alter the meaning of the root word. Those language families that decided to add prefixes and suffixes became known as "inflectional" languages. Those that remained mono-syllabic have a variety of tones per syllable.
I guess calling it "not a date" will create a more casual and less awkward environment where people can meet and connect. But it's quite obvious that the 3 male and 3 female set up is designed to match up people of the opposite sex.