Science anyone?

With what you describe, could you build a randomizer or a relational database?

No. Just as you couldn't, not without the use of underlying commands which are written in REAL programming languages. If I am allowed to use a real programming language then why would I want to implement either one using a scripting language? The performance would be atrocious.

I started professionally programming in 1981, been programming since 1972. I am disabled, but the last job I held was as a partner in a small computer firm the specialized in vertical document scanning systems for small to medium size businesses.

I don't care what your references are, you are a fool. I only write here in the hopes that someone might see it. I doubt that will happen. *sigh*

With what you describe, could you build a randomizer or a relational database?

No. Just as you couldn't, not without the use of underlying commands which are written in REAL programming languages. If I am allowed to use a real programming language then why would I want to implement either one using a scripting language? The performance would be atrocious.

Yes, I can. You are just too narrow minded to think outside of the box.

I don't care what your references are, you are a fool. I only write here in the hopes that someone might see it. I doubt that will happen. *sigh*

Wow!

For those who are interested in how alias works, further reading at wikipedia

In computing, alias is a command in various command line interpreters (shells) such as Unix shells, 4DOS/4NT and Windows PowerShell, which enables a replacement of a word by another string. It is mainly used for abbreviating a system command, or for adding default arguments to a regularly used command. Aliasing functionality in the MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows operating systems is provided by the DOSKey command-line utility.

My Message of thanks to a Computer Genius - Thank you...
Swan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZpTTokiCrE

Beautiful!

Time lapse planetary panorama (VIDEO)

Free will could be the result of 'background noise' in the brain, study suggests

...in an email to Live Science, Bengson said: “[Though] purposeful intentions, desires and goals drive our decisions in a linear cause-and-effect kind of way, our finding shows that our decisions are also influenced by neural noise within any given moment.

“This random firing, or noise, may even be the carrier upon which our consciousness rides, in the same way that radio static is used to carry a radio station.”

If the world is a computer, life is an algorithm

Traditionally, the math used for computing physical laws, like Newton’s laws of motion, use calculus, designed for tasks like quantifying change by infinitesimal amounts over infinitesimal increments of time. Modern computers can help do the calculating, but they don’t work the way nature supposedly does. Today’s computers are digital. They process bits and bytes, discrete units of information, not the continuous variables typically involved in calculus.

From time to time in recent decades, scientists have explored the notion that the universe is also digital. Nobel laureate Gerard ’t Hooft, for instance, thinks that some sort of information processing on a submicroscopic level is responsible for the quantum features that describe detectable reality. He calls this version of quantum physics the cellular automaton interpretation.

From what I have done with computers, my thoughts about the Universe go to an analog computer that can do digital processing as well.

No seriously, the universe is not a computer:

* The hypothesis does not really make useful predictions
* Every time we tried to see any form of "discrete" or "digital" physics, we found, that, in fact, the universe is analog and continuous.

So, no, we do not live in a computer, unless we postulate the computer is undetectable, which makes the theory completely unuseful.

I don't understand why this keeps on popping up, even on relatively skeptical sites like this one...

and on the other side (sort of, he makes a good argument)

can you back that up?

string theory is not infinitely scaleable for example (distance measurements invert once they reach the planck length), it could be that a discrete version could solve some of it's problems. quantum theory obviously operates on discrete units of energy as well, why not discrete units of space and time?

real-number based physics has hit a brick wall, general relativity can't explain quantum effects, and quantum theory is a mix of continuoius and discrete methods, and is obviously incmoplete. that's no guarantee that the real answer lies in a fully discrete theory, but the discovery of the planck constant certainly suggests it's something worth investigating. I've not heard much about Wolfram's approach though, sounds interesting.

Should the Higgs boson have caused our Universe to collapse?

—British cosmologists are puzzled: they predict that the Universe should not have lasted for more than a second. This startling conclusion is the result of combining the latest observations of the sky with the recent discovery of the Higgs boson. Robert Hogan of King's College London (KCL) will present the new research on 24 June at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting in Portsmouth.

After the Universe began in the Big Bang, it is thought to have gone through a short period of rapid expansion known as 'cosmic inflation'. Although the details of this process are not yet fully understood, cosmologists have been able to make predictions of how this would affect the Universe we see today.

In March 2014, researchers from the BICEP2 collaboration claimed to have detected one of these predicted effects. If true, their results are a major advance in our understanding of cosmology and a confirmation of the inflation theory, but they have proven controversial and are not yet fully accepted by cosmologists.

In the new research, scientists from KCL have investigated what the BICEP2 observations mean for the stability of the Universe. To do this, they combined the results with recent advances in particle physics. The detection of the Higgs boson by the Large Hadron Collider was announced in July 2012; since then, much has been learnt about its properties.
Measurements of the Higgs boson have allowed particle physicists to show that our universe sits in a valley of the 'Higgs field', which describes the way that other particles have mass. However, there is a different valley which is much deeper, but our universe is preventing from falling into it by a large energy barrier.

Should the Higgs boson have caused our Universe to collapse?

The BICEP2 telescope in Antarctica, seen at twilight. The telescope has led to significant new results on the early universe. The Keck Array telescope and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station can be seen in the background. Credit: Steffen Richter, Harvard University.
The problem is that the BICEP2 results predict that the universe would have received large 'kicks' during the cosmic inflation phase, pushing it into the other valley of the Higgs field within a fraction of a second. If that had happened, the universe would have quickly collapsed in a Big Crunch.

"This is an unacceptable prediction of the theory because if this had happened we wouldn't be around to discuss it" said Hogan, who is a PhD student at KCL and led the study.

Perhaps the BICEP2 results contain an error. If not, there must be some other, as yet unknown, process which prevented the universe from collapsing.

"If BICEP2 is shown to be correct, it tells us that there has to be interesting new particle physics beyond the standard model" Hogan said.

I love this comment: "Maybe it didn't last for more than a second."

And yet another competitive Peacock Spider vying for the attention of a lady!: "Hey, I'm over here!"
Swan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOAfXUshpVY

Pretty Amazing! Does he win her in the end, I wonder!
This world has such amazing creatures in it that we hold in so little regard.
Thanks for sharing.

Here's one for Swan. Beautiful from beginning to end..................

https://www.youtube.com/embed/SB8WlqfJJRE?feature=player_detailpage

Here's one for Swan. Beautiful from beginning to end..................

https://www.youtube.com/embed/SB8WlqfJJRE?feature=player_detailpage

Awesome beauty......
Swan

Live Life; Live Free...!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bKwRW0l-Qk

Thanks Swan for posting this awesome video of wild, free Dolphins!
This is where they belong, in the vast oceans!
Not swimming around in tiny tanks or small sea pens doing tricks for food to appease corporate greed and our entertainment!

Airbus: Pilots don't really need windows

Future airliner flight decks may do away with windows and move out of the nose of the aircraft, according to Airbus.

The European airplane maker filed a patent application Dec. 23, published June 26, for a flight deck that relies mostly or entirely on electronic viewscreens.

The first advantage is aerodynamic, since flight deck windows require interrupting the ideal scalpel shape of the nose, Airbus wrote. Also, big windows and the reinforcement required for them add weight to the aircraft.

Putting the flight deck at the front of the cabin takes valuable space away from the cabin, "thereby limiting the financial profits for the airline company exploiting the aircraft," Airbus wrote.

Without the need for windows, the flight deck could move "to an unused zone of the aircraft, and in particular into a zone difficult to configure for receiving passengers or freight," Airbus wrote. One possibility is the base of the tail, where the flight deck could still have some windows. Another is in part of the cargo hold.

Did Mars Curiosity Rover Snap Images Of A UFO?

From the comments: "If it is space aliens, I hope they attack congress first..."

This isn't really sciency, it's more geek:

Amazing behind the scenes pictures from Star Wars IV thru VI. Who needs CGI anyway?

I thought this was an interesting article about Archimedes:

Who's the Greatest Mathematician of Them All?

This is an interesting look into the evolution of video games: (edit NSFW language)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUZfpcpt5s

This Could Be the Future of Military Helicopters

Why? Because it was composed...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KylMqxLzNGo

Beautiful.............thank you Swan...........