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Why not simply link to the image directly?
http://akbar.marlboro.edu/~jsheehy/FarSideCownCar.gif

It's wrong to think of the electron as a particle when it's "orbiting" in an atom.

It's only wrong in the sense that it doesn't follow a traditional trajectory. As with the double-slit experiment, if one conceives of it following a wave trajectory, the results are the same. So you've got a physical particle the entire time, but it follows the path of a wave. In the case of the double-slit experiment, this makes much more sense: an electron goes through one or the other slit, depending on where it happens to be in its wave trajectory. The apparent interference pattern on the phosphor screen is simply the result of many electrons having their own initial wave trajectories. The pictures are identical, but one is conceivable (ie, conceptual), while the other is not.

The probability distribution is real

It is only "real" in the sense that when we make many observations, they fit that distribution. What's actually real are the electrons themselves. The rest is our analysis of their motion. To say that a probability distribution or probability density is a real thing is to assert that electrons and the universe in general were made with observers in mind. After all, a probability in this context is the chance of an observer finding an object in a given location.

What I have been hinting at this whole time is the deBroglie-Bohm alternative (aka "Bohmian mechanics") to the traditional QM interpretation, which was furthered by JS Bell. This professor has some good intro material online and in arXiv on this subject.

Check out their Master of Science in Internet Engineering program.

I'm also addicted to caffeine and know what you're going through. I have quit in the past, though. The last time was about a year and a half ago. I'd just finished grad school where I lived next to a corner grocery that sold Jolt. I tried unsuccessfully to quit for weeks (after a few days I felt like I'd been beaten by a baseball bat across my neck and shoulders) until I started taking Tylenol (not aspirin, Ibuprofen, etc. but Tylenol brand). The pain went right away, and I was able to quit.

Staying off is another matter altogether.

I just finished up a Master of Science in Internet Engineering at Marlboro College in Vermont (very rural college in a very rural state, but it had an great, cutting-edge graduate program). I couldn't find any info online about it, but they're developing a distance learning program.

Claudine Keenan is the person to talk to:
1-888-258-5665
ckeenan@persons.marlboro.edu

I just finished up a Master of Science in Internet Engineering at Marlboro College in Vermont (very rural college in a very rural state, but it had an great, cutting-edge graduate program). I couldn't find any info online about it, but they're developing a distance learning program.

Claudine Keenan is the person to talk to:
1-888-258-5665
ckeenan@persons.marlboro.edu

Right on. I got my BA in Music Composition / Theory, spent a few years as a psuedo-rock star, and now am attending graduate school for Internet Engineering and develop websites for my day job.

My first love was programming, though. I still have my trusty C-64 with an external 7-1/4" disk drive (with an ice-pack on top of it) hooked up to an old tv as a monitor. Ah, those were the days...

Thank goodness for progress.

Even in our own office, I wish we could kill multicasting. We make games here, and in the evening, a lot of groups of guys are playing games that spew enough multicast packets to bring our 100mbit network to its knees. (Yes, we're using switches, not hubs.)

You need switches that support IGMP spoofing, then. If the traffic really is multicast, and not broadcast, IGMP spoofing is what you're looking for.

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Take a look here-- it's a pretty decent article on IP multicast (not really technical-- just buzz-laden). Some rudimentary technical information is in here.
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