DontPanic

Ran across this article basically confirming CSpenceFLY's comment: http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080615/NEWS01/806150333/1010

Well, I'm drunk enough to take a stab at that, but not so drunk as to make the answer completely unintelligible. The fascination with unification theories started in the first half of the 20th century with Einstein and the classical/relativistic physicists squaring off against Heisenberg and the quantum physicists. Classical/relativistic physics was able to accurately predict the behavior of many aspects of our Universe. Likewise, quantum physics was also able to accurately describe a different class of natural phenomenon. But classical/relativistic physics and quantum physics seemed to be fundamentally inconsistent. Classical/relativistic physics provided solutions that very mechanical, and the answers could be run backwards and forwards in time. Quantum physics is probability based, and could predict likely solutions going forward in time, but could not run a problem backwards in time. And scientists were fascinated by a seemingly diabolical nature of the universe that would not let you structure a problem that would simultaneously pit classical/relativistic physics against quantum physics (such as wave/particle duality and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle). Since that time, the conceptual understanding of physics has evolved with the development of the four fundamental forces (strong/weak/electromagnetic/gravity) and the Standard Model of particle physics. The Standard Model has a strong foundation in quantum physics, and does a good job of explaining three out of four of the fundamental forces, but still hasn't accounted for gravity. So we're still left with two rather different sets of physics to explain the universe.

Gravity is not energy. Gravity is the warping of space (according to the General Theory of Relativity). Having said that, you can artificially create gravity by merely applying a force to an object to accelerate it. According to Einstein, the force you feel in an elevator that is accelerating upwards is the same as gravity. In fact, acceleration is what Einstein's General Theory of relativity was trying to address. Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity (which came first) covered the "special" case of constant velocity, but couldn't handle acceleration (i.e. a change in velocity). In expanding on his Theory of Relativity to cover acceleration, he showed that acceleration is the same thing as gravity. Also, when looking at gravity early in the big bang, you have to consider that space hadn't quite unfolded yet. Although all the matter in the Universe was instantaneously created at t=0 in the first instant, space itself mostly unfolded during the inflationary epoch, which was a distinct period after t=0.

Doesn't it kinda spoil the acoustics to play into a corner like that?

I've been spending most of my time in Linux for about two years now. But I usually keep XP on one of my partitions for those things that need Windows. If you've got the space, you may want to break your hard disk into a couple of partitions so you can try out other versions of Linux. Even if I like the distro I'm currently using, I'll often learn something by playing around with another linux distro, and then incorporate that feature into my favored linux installation if I can. Especially if your going to play around with getting Windows programs to run on Linux. You may find another distro that gets all that going out-of-the-box, and you can see how they set it up.

Try alittle rubbing alcohol (Isopropyl Alcohol). It should melt the ice.

He must have learned Static Line. Those AFF Otter babies are all afraid to get out below 5K.

I got my MBA right out of undergraduate school, and I really enjoyed the experience. The program was challenging, but it was also a good time in my life. But that was 1985-1987, and times have changed. So many companies are paying for their people to go to MBA school, that many Colleges and Universities are treating them like profit centers to cover all their other graduate programs, and the costs have skyrocketed (the costs of college have skyrocketed in general). When I went in the 80s, I had an assistantship and some other part-time work, and I was able to get out with virtually no debt. It is very hard to do that now with so many companies throwing money at these schools. You have to pay a premium to get an MBA that makes it much harder to justify, while many of your classmates will be getting the degree paid for by their company. I really value the education I received in my MBA program, but I have a hard time recommending the degree to people today.

I've done something similar to this. I modified a script to display my most played xmms songs from a sqlite database, with the table being an xml export. Here's a link: http://dontpanic.dyndns.org/xmms_stats_direct.php Let me know if you would like to see the code for this script, but it was originally written in French, and many of the variable names show that heritage. If this is a newly setup server, are you sure you have xml turned on in your php? You can check this by adding a small section of debugging code to one of your web pages: This will dump gobs of information about you php setup. There should be a section on xml, indicating that xml support is active.

#3 needs to forget about the red pillow and go straight for silver.

Counting me, there are as many posts regarding the spelling of "immogrants" as there are votes for becoming a vegetarian. Hhhmmmm

News Sheriff: Arrest close in stabbing death

I apologize if I'm re-posting this, but I didn't see this posted anywhere else. An interesting factoid that surely must be of importance to participant in this event is that The Catholic Church has officially moved the Celebration of St. Patrick's Day for 2008 up to Saturday, March, 15, 2008 (See Irish bishops move St. Patrick's Day 2008). Since Easter is so early this year, the 17th conflicts with Holy Monday. So those of you who can't stay until Monday can still officially say you where at the St. Patricks Day Boogie on St. Patrick's Day.

On the other hand, this comparison makes it look like skydiving is only slightly more dangerous than riding an elevator. You just have to know how to spin things to your favor.

I used to run into Britney's Dad some about 5 or 6 years ago when I went out drinking. I don't know whether or not they ever lived in a trailer, but let's just say he didn't do a whole lot to dispell the perception that he could have been not far removed from the trailer park.

Looks like a massive deadly stream of blue gas emanating from a black hole. Hhmmm, are you sure this isn't a joke?

No, I wasn't used to the forward speed without a plane underneath me.

Hhhmmm, we're losing our Otter for the month of December, and substituting a C-182 instead. We need ideas for what to do on the extended ride to altitude now.

How many other schools can brag they've had two players bitten by dogs in the end zone under live play.

That's quite a rush to the alter. I wonder if Dick got Chick in trouble.

Probably a third or more of the gift certificates I get expire before I use them. I'm especially bad about the one's for restaurants. Even if I go to the place, I'll have forgotten that I had a gift certificate until I get there.

War Damn Eagle!

Boy, I'll bet pulling off a four-way with this guy is hell.

Blue Skies....

You might well be right that it might be enough to keep it from releasing altogether. Even if it released, it might delay the release. I notice there is no RSL connection in the picture. So if there is an RSL (not shown) on the opposite side, even a delayed release might cause a main/reserve entanglement.