"Oh my god, what am I going to do without HN karma! Oh wait I know, let me post some yakuza or geisha news and gather some HN karma! And try my best to be a HN resident for a long time! That's because I don't have a life!"
The reason I registered at some point was because I randomly wanted to write a reply to post. To hell with it. And you.
"Hi HN, I found a very interesting news here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/9508613/Winnie-the-Pooh-... You see it's about business and I think it's interesting, so I posted this here. Any hacker would find this interesting. If you don't you're not a hacker. Oh, by the way, I'm a guy who CODE in use javascript and down-vote people on HN, cool huh, which makes me an ub3r hacker. That's the definition of a hacker after all in this age.
Really? Is this what you understand from guidelines?
What's your next post? "I found a very delicious and interesting recipe on web. It was delicious and I think it's worth sharing with hackers ♥."
Get out of here.
Maybe the blame is this stupid, non-central ranking mechanism which makes idiots like you and OP motivated to dump such stuff here for points and down-vote any criticism that does make sense.
Apple builds fancy gadgets and gathers a fan-boy population, and eventually starts selling more. This really doesn't say anything about Linux desktop.
This whole thing about backward compatibility and the discussion that surrounds it is just vague. Here's a practical "true story" for you: I'm using GNU/Linux for more than 10 years now, and it is still alive.
Never had any vague binary compatibility problems either, because I'm not strangely expecting to use an ancient binary version of Gimp on my current system. That's because FOSS is source oriented, not binary.
I'm not suddenly trying to use a 15 years old graphics card whose driver is longer in the kernel either, because I don't use a 15 years old graphics card.
Yeah, tell me about those genius ideas invented by Apple that only 10 Einsteins could have come up with. Rounded corners?
It's too fortunate for that that nobody patented their "innovative" stuff 50 years ago because it is totally ridiculous. Want some respect as a company? Do something like research.google.com instead of trying to screw people over with overpriced candies and screwing other companies when they put their hands in your honey jar.
Are we talking about the same thing?
I'm talking about particle waves, or wave functions of particles, not a function which satisfies the wave equation (a photon happens to satisfy the wave function, but I'm trying to be general here) and with frequency, I mean energy. Try changing the sign of t in Schrodinger equation and see if it simply amounts to changing the sign of your momentum vector or not.
Save me the trouble an learn some basic physics.
Read Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics, Chapter 7.
If it's too complicated for you, read about waves. See how they propagate in time and space, and pay special attention to what happens to the equation when you change the sign of t. If it's too difficult to imagine, try plotting using a program.
And anti-matter is not matter travelling backwards in time. See my post below.
The problem with such interpretations is that they violate causality.
Check out Wheeler-Feynman absorber theory for history.
Concepts such as collapse of a wave function aren't necessary when you stop treating the observer in a special way and start considering observer-particle as a big quantum system.
This is not true. A wave propagates both in time and space. You're mixing these two. A negative frequency is like a wave travelling backwards in time, not left/right spatial direction.
Don't push the idea of a wave in space too much, that's not how stuff works in quantum mechanics. See Feynman Lectures of Physics, Vol 3, Section 3-3 for a text at the introductory level.