higgs landed almost exactly in the middle of the range between supersymmetry and multiverse - first, the higgs is in the metastable range - a middling result. second - Higgs above the max of 115 GEV needed for supersymmetry to work and less than the 140-145 that make the multiverse theories work out.
Its exactly where none of the theoretical physicists wanted it to be.
my favorite part of this all is that the last generation's retina have: 1) larger batteries, 2) better track pads , 3) magsafe vs crap connector for power USBC 4) horrific keyboards that have no travel, bad feel, no space between keys and 5) on macs with that stupid touch bar no physical ESC key.
not only is it disappointing and boring but things are starting to go backwards.
I played wc, wc2 and all the special missions until my fingers bled without cheating and without fearing the 486-dx2-66. i played that game and i never cheated and I made medal of honor on all possible missions. it was the best game ever!!!! :)
Ill tell you what. Every single bulb is LED, tv plasma-> led, all appliances and fans upgraded to energy efficient, all HDDs->SSD, all lights on sensors, no heating used, no AC used, and my bills are bigger here in CA than ever. So if there is a glut of power I can also say that datacenters pay less than people in homes and its not cheap to charge electric cars, in fact, they are charging more per kwh and changed a lot of free charging stations to pay-for/metered. As a little guy in a brutal tax bracket its too bad all this energy progress hasnt helped out with the bills.
I've noticed that comments here that are critical of Bezos gets met with downvoting. Sad. Why Microsoft got the 3rd degree and Amazon gets a pass is beyond me. I guess that large unethical companies like Amazon can use AIs to police sentiments about them and do the needful. We should start looking for anti AI mechanisms in discourse as well as work to ensure paid sockpuppeting and gas lighting is not going on. The truth is going to be harder to get at these days.
Bezos creates a boiler room. Bezos, to me, is the most Machiavellian man alive and the arms race he started is being emulated by the likes of Jack Ma. This will not lead to happier people. Spying, advertising, fake and low quality products and constant consumption and consumerism is the goal of scamazon. I do like whole foods, a bit expensive, I use co-ops when possible to source food, but Amazon will make sure to gut headcount and compromise on quality anywhere possible to make an extra penny. Bezos farms all this money simply to be the richest and to play with rockets in space while we all suffer from shrinking middle class, lower education standards for most, cancer and an energy crunch. Bezos is dangerously smart, possibly the smartest business man alive or ever, but he is just not a good man. Every one of his successes requires the original to be sacrificed at their hands. using their infrastructure - aws - guarantees that if you are successful there Bezos will steal your model and compete with you.
I knew whole foods was falling at the hands of Costco, organic for cheaper, but whole foods had great variety and did try harder than all the other big-chain food stores.
Every scamazon victory feels like a loss of the world.
Time to bust this trust. Time for regulators to start breaking scamazon up.
Sometimes space and military programs will produce technology that later becomes commercially very useful, eg, Raytheon and the microwave oven (First introduced Radarange 1946 - and Amana made a more generally consumable model in 1967). The whole "dig holes and fill them up again" was wonderfully covered in Orwell,1984.. The noble version of this would be Space Exploration, search for unlimited energy (eg, fusion), or cancer cures. The military industrial complex speech given by a sitting US president, Eisenhower, here - http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/eisenhower001.asp - more or less predicted that the 1984-style approach to perpetual state of war will be taken unless big changes were made.
"War, it will be seen, accomplishes the necessary destruction, but accomplishes it in a psychologically acceptable way. In principle it would be quite simple to waste the surplus labour of the world by building temples and pyramids, by digging holes and filling them up again, or even by producing vast quantities of goods and then setting fire to them. But this would provide only the economic and not the emotional basis for a hierarchical society. What is concerned here is not the morale of masses, whose attitude is unimportant so long as they are kept steadily at work, but the morale of the Party itself. Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist. The splitting of the intelligence which the Party requires of its members, and which is more easily achieved in an atmosphere of war, is now almost universal, but the higher up the ranks one goes, the more marked it becomes. It is precisely in the Inner Party that war hysteria and hatred of the enemy are strongest. In his capacity as an administrator, it is often necessary for a member of the Inner Party to know that this or that item of war news is untruthful, and he may often be aware that the entire war is spurious and is either not happening or is being waged for purposes quite other than the declared ones: but such knowledge is easily neutralized by the technique of doublethink. Meanwhile no Inner Party member wavers for an instant in his mystical belief that the war is real, and that it is bound to end victoriously, with Oceania the undisputed master of the entire world. "
