Logic question

@CWO:

@Fishmoto37:

The 2011 Patron support drive is officially started. You can read about it in the Website/Forum Discussion.

Ah, I see it now.  I wasn’t looking at the stickied topics, so I missed it the first time.  I’ve now sent in my contribution for 2011.

Good man! Spread the word.

Read Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan or Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind if you want some good reading.

@frimmel:

@Jermofoot:

This is a problem concerning looking back on history.  What you know of Hitler (primarily killing millions of people and starting a war) can be attributed to him from when he was conceived until his death.  You look upon him with that lens always on.  That’s probably why you were turned off when this individual said that Hitler’s book (not killing millions of people) was a different POV, by association.

That is an excellent point. Our looks back tend to be colored by our present preferences. They can interfere with objectivity.

Hitler is one of the most important figures of the last century. Reading the autobiographys and biographys of important people has always been considered part of being literate.

satan is an important person but i prefer to read the Bible and not his book. your freind didn’t want to offend you and tried to sound nice even though he thought you were a whacko nazi.

Well I went ahead an imported a disc despite the enormous file size claim and it came in when complete at the normal size. However it took about three times as long as anything I’ve ripped before.

Plenty of HD space. Robust equipment. 2.0 GHz P4 family Processor. 2GB Ram. 48x DVD burning drive. Drive works great. Pretty sure it is narrowed down to a software problem.

I found a thread on iLounge where a few folks mentioned slower ripping since moving to the newest iTunes 7.0.2 or something.

This is just a big  :? I call this a “It doesn’t not work,” problem. It isn’t broken but  it isn’t correct either.

Thanks for noticing the pre-print version of the paper.  Its only 5 pages and surprisingly not too terribly difficult to follow.  From the article:

How does information get out of a black hole? My work with Hartle[8] showed the radiation could be thought of as
tunnelling out from inside the black hole. It was therefore not unreasonable to suppose that it could carry information
out of the black hole. This explains how a black hole can form and then give out the information about what is inside
it while remaining topologically trivial. There is no baby universe branching off, as I once thought. The information
remains firmly in our universe. I’m sorry to disappoint science fiction fans, but if information is preserved, there is
no possibility of using black holes to travel to other universes. If you jump into a black hole, your mass energy will
be returned to our universe but in a mangled form which contains the information about what you were like but in a
state where it can not be easily recognized. It is like burning an encyclopedia. Information is not lost, if one keeps the
smoke and the ashes. But it is difficult to read. In practice, it would be too difficult to re-build a macroscopic object
like an encyclopedia that fell inside a black hole from information in the radiation, but the information preserving
result is important for microscopic processes involving virtual black holes. If these had not been unitary, there would
have been observable effects, like the decay of baryons.
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I gave John an encyclopedia of baseball, but maybe I should just have given him the ashes.

Falk wrote:

i doubt that passing something through a singularity is a unitary process

Hawking basically states this is a unitary process by what isn’t observed in other quantum effects…i.e. the decay of baryons.  I’m not sure if that is really proof or just a strong indication however.

Radical, maybe, Mexican, never! 8)

sure :)…