Wasn't that was one of the problems einstein had and could never get to the bottom of was the spooky action at distance? Where effects of quantum entanglement do travel faster than the speed of light. Various theories have come along to explain it, including faster than light particles which travel between the two entangled particles effectively going back in time and setting the observed property when the two were in close proximity.
In theory it is possible to travel faster than light, the theory of relativity is symetrical around the speed of light. But it is impossible for any particle to go across the light barrier, either slow down under it or speed up over it.
It may be impossible to implement (currently) like many things in theoretical physics, but so were so many things we take for granted now a century ago.
You can get some very cool looking cases which look just like dvd players, stick a pc based blue-ray or hddvd player in it and a hard drive and whatever you can also have a high def player as well as a dvr box.
Yes it would be expensive, but you could probably replace one of your other devices with it.
I think only 1 and 2 pound coins are legal tender above a certain value, its either 5 or 10 pounds. Its something like 20 of each coin with an individual value below £1, but it may vary by coin.
Even bank notes are not legal tender, though i can't think of many places which take cash that wouldn't take notes. But the £50 is often refused outside of banks.
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Some people like reading from a book rather than a computer screen, its easier on the eyes, and sometimes you just want to get away from the screen.
Though i must admit with the rate that things change i gave up on buying programming books years ago.
As a parent I wish to let someone have the responsibility of bringing up my kids right, I am tired or trying to stop them doing things that they shouldn't...
I am going to buy Halo 3 for my own enjoyment, and I want Jack Thomson to personally come to my house here in PA and keep them out of the room so they don't see the graphic violence as I take the convenant and flood once more... You go Jack, I assume because your self righteous head is so far up your own self righteous ass, that you won't even need me to pay you...
I love you Jack, you are my hero, I hereby grant you all of my parental responsibility, since you are so much better at it than me. I urge parents on slashdot to do the same.
The man is an idiot, I bet the guy who reads Bill's mail got a good laugh. Jack Thomson should NOT breed.
I am from the UK too, they have my fingerprints on file now, I work out here.
I know about europe its great, I just wave my passport at them when i go to austria, they see its an EU and check one in every 5-10. Its really easy. The weak dollar rocks though:)
If its a big company, it would be an administrative and resourse nightmare should a crime be committed in their building working out if its a member of staff... With the fingerprints on file, they can give them all to the police and say "Is it any of these?".
I wouldn't have a problem with just my fingerprints taken, I assume its all 10. In the states immigrants have them all taken, are people not to come to the USA because their fingerprints would be stored in the FBI computers? As time goes on, more detail on a person is going to be stored by various agencies, its the way the world is moving. Sit at home in a foil lined box if you like, or just get on with it and just stand up to more important things.
In short, no I don't think you should worry. If the requirements get more invasive like records from her OB or genetic testing (depending on what they are screening for and should be done by a third unbiased party), as you suggested, then i would think about looking for another job, but fingerprints are not an issue.
Management always want things like this, unless it is a subsidiary its unlikely that you would get any meaningful data you could compare against in another company. Unless they agree to benchmark following the same rules and be completely honest with you... Who would tell you if they had a bad IT department?
A managers real question is how much money have you saved me or how much easier has my life become because of the IT department.
Someone suggested asking the users, thats not a bad idea... A simple questionaire on the corporate site (internal or external) would be good... Say 10 questions marked on a scale of 1-10, come up with an average of both including and excluding 1's and 10's on the scale. Your ones with low average scores are where you need to improve, high scores you rock and the overall average is where you are. Convince other companies to do the same thing, you have your comparison. Compare your score out of 100. The average without 1's and 10's would be more meaningful, people who put 1's and 10's either aren't thinking about it, or are trying to skew the results. Get the members of the IT department to do the same questions, comparing that might be interesting.
Self evaluation is another management favourite, but i have always hated that... But that would cover downtime or use of budget and things like that... Budget is a bad thing though, show you have saved money and your budget is cut
After sales care or your computers should be an important aspect of business machines. If apples sucks, then perhaps you should go with Dell...
I find Dell's after sales better than before. I would rather order online and get almost what i want than speak to a sales rep and try to get exactly what i want.
If i want an exact spec then i would go elsewhere or build it myself.
Why would they be choosing over Vista/linux now anyway, it would be years before a large organisation like that would even consider using Vista. By then we'd be on our second service pack, they would have nailed problems with backward compatibility.
Its a hard enough decision for a large organisation to switch to a different word processor, or even upgrade, an entirely new platform would cost a prohibitive sum in training, implementation and rewriting internal apps. Its going to take a long time to make the decision, and meanwhile microsoft will be "Hey, how about we give you this to stay with us"...
Use the kibibyte if you have a big problem with it.
But I have long since buried my problem with using the SI prefix with byte to mean a power of 2, actually not sure i ever had one, I just accepted it. I am happy with the 1024b=1Kb, 1024Kb=1Gb and 1024Gb=1Tb. The usable space is lower in the case of non-volatile storage anyway, 1Tb never means 1024Gb might be closer to 1000Gb (i don't know).
Didn't you know Rick was a Jedi Knight and Jonathan was his Padewan... And Imhotep was really Jonathan and Evelyn's father.
However the sabre battle was cut out during post production due to copyright issues with Lucas.
Full and Accurate specification, i don't think it can be full and accurate, in my experience it either has everything in it but it is not what the user wants or it has what the user wants but not everything is in it. Should create some programming law about that.
Don't discount the users opinions, but it is a good software designers job to ask questions and offer suggestions to get around the users weird ideas. But observe them, if you understand the process they are trying to do then you can offer alternatives which might help them, and make their lives easier... They will love you for it, then curse the programmers who can't work to your perfect software.
But the way i understood it with quantum entanglement is that two entangled particles have an indetermined state such as polorisation which gets set when you check for it...
If you check for polorisation on any plane it will happen to be polorised in that plane, but so then would the other, but if you had chosen a different plane it would be polorised in that way. So its not like writing the number, because it is set when its read and the other entangled particle of sufficient distance away to be faster than light communication is set to a known polorisation, can't remember if its the same or at 90 degrees.
I may be talking rubbish though, its been 10 years since i did particle/quantum physics in school.
Its been some time since i read a physics book, but a while ago i read somewhere that relativity is symetrical around the speed of light, and it is possible for particles to go above the speed of light (tachyons). It would take an infinite amount of energy to reduce a particle to the speed of light as it would to increase one to the speed of light if the particle has mass.
But photons speed surely could be increased as they could be reduced given the correct situation.
You still can't get your rocket with mass to go faster than light, and not sure if you could gain propulsion from particles going faster than light by ejecting them out of the back. Who knows maybe in 50 years i can get a decent internet connection using faster than light particles.
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Wasn't that was one of the problems einstein had and could never get to the bottom of was the spooky action at distance? Where effects of quantum entanglement do travel faster than the speed of light. Various theories have come along to explain it, including faster than light particles which travel between the two entangled particles effectively going back in time and setting the observed property when the two were in close proximity.
In theory it is possible to travel faster than light, the theory of relativity is symetrical around the speed of light. But it is impossible for any particle to go across the light barrier, either slow down under it or speed up over it.
It may be impossible to implement (currently) like many things in theoretical physics, but so were so many things we take for granted now a century ago.
You can get some very cool looking cases which look just like dvd players, stick a pc based blue-ray or hddvd player in it and a hard drive and whatever you can also have a high def player as well as a dvr box.
Yes it would be expensive, but you could probably replace one of your other devices with it.
I think only 1 and 2 pound coins are legal tender above a certain value, its either 5 or 10 pounds. Its something like 20 of each coin with an individual value below £1, but it may vary by coin.
Even bank notes are not legal tender, though i can't think of many places which take cash that wouldn't take notes. But the £50 is often refused outside of banks.
Some people like reading from a book rather than a computer screen, its easier on the eyes, and sometimes you just want to get away from the screen.
Though i must admit with the rate that things change i gave up on buying programming books years ago.
Now if you gave a money back guarentee, i would consider going out... But a promise?
This will just make people hate traffic wardens even more... soon they will be hated more than Will Wheaton.
As a parent I wish to let someone have the responsibility of bringing up my kids right, I am tired or trying to stop them doing things that they shouldn't...
I am going to buy Halo 3 for my own enjoyment, and I want Jack Thomson to personally come to my house here in PA and keep them out of the room so they don't see the graphic violence as I take the convenant and flood once more... You go Jack, I assume because your self righteous head is so far up your own self righteous ass, that you won't even need me to pay you...
I love you Jack, you are my hero, I hereby grant you all of my parental responsibility, since you are so much better at it than me. I urge parents on slashdot to do the same.
The man is an idiot, I bet the guy who reads Bill's mail got a good laugh. Jack Thomson should NOT breed.
I do that and it drops the memory from 131Mb to 125Mb. Hardly a HUGE drop.
I am from the UK too, they have my fingerprints on file now, I work out here.
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I know about europe its great, I just wave my passport at them when i go to austria, they see its an EU and check one in every 5-10. Its really easy. The weak dollar rocks though
If its a big company, it would be an administrative and resourse nightmare should a crime be committed in their building working out if its a member of staff... With the fingerprints on file, they can give them all to the police and say "Is it any of these?".
I wouldn't have a problem with just my fingerprints taken, I assume its all 10. In the states immigrants have them all taken, are people not to come to the USA because their fingerprints would be stored in the FBI computers? As time goes on, more detail on a person is going to be stored by various agencies, its the way the world is moving. Sit at home in a foil lined box if you like, or just get on with it and just stand up to more important things.
In short, no I don't think you should worry. If the requirements get more invasive like records from her OB or genetic testing (depending on what they are screening for and should be done by a third unbiased party), as you suggested, then i would think about looking for another job, but fingerprints are not an issue.
Surely it is a bad thing that it takes an email to the chief exec to get this problem fixed...
In future perhaps all mac users should just send their support request to Steve Jobs, because their support sucks.
Management always want things like this, unless it is a subsidiary its unlikely that you would get any meaningful data you could compare against in another company. Unless they agree to benchmark following the same rules and be completely honest with you... Who would tell you if they had a bad IT department?
A managers real question is how much money have you saved me or how much easier has my life become because of the IT department.
Someone suggested asking the users, thats not a bad idea... A simple questionaire on the corporate site (internal or external) would be good... Say 10 questions marked on a scale of 1-10, come up with an average of both including and excluding 1's and 10's on the scale. Your ones with low average scores are where you need to improve, high scores you rock and the overall average is where you are. Convince other companies to do the same thing, you have your comparison. Compare your score out of 100. The average without 1's and 10's would be more meaningful, people who put 1's and 10's either aren't thinking about it, or are trying to skew the results. Get the members of the IT department to do the same questions, comparing that might be interesting.
Self evaluation is another management favourite, but i have always hated that... But that would cover downtime or use of budget and things like that... Budget is a bad thing though, show you have saved money and your budget is cut
Have your IT department visit other companies...
Hey, Willow was awesome... The only Val Kilmer movie i can watch without my eyes bleeding.
Or have the same vote here...
I would have thought this kind of thing would be annonymous usage or configuration, simply so that they know how people use it... Though i don't know.
After sales care or your computers should be an important aspect of business machines. If apples sucks, then perhaps you should go with Dell...
I find Dell's after sales better than before. I would rather order online and get almost what i want than speak to a sales rep and try to get exactly what i want.
If i want an exact spec then i would go elsewhere or build it myself.
Why would they be choosing over Vista/linux now anyway, it would be years before a large organisation like that would even consider using Vista. By then we'd be on our second service pack, they would have nailed problems with backward compatibility.
Its a hard enough decision for a large organisation to switch to a different word processor, or even upgrade, an entirely new platform would cost a prohibitive sum in training, implementation and rewriting internal apps. Its going to take a long time to make the decision, and meanwhile microsoft will be "Hey, how about we give you this to stay with us"...
Use the kibibyte if you have a big problem with it.
But I have long since buried my problem with using the SI prefix with byte to mean a power of 2, actually not sure i ever had one, I just accepted it. I am happy with the 1024b=1Kb, 1024Kb=1Gb and 1024Gb=1Tb. The usable space is lower in the case of non-volatile storage anyway, 1Tb never means 1024Gb might be closer to 1000Gb (i don't know).
Didn't you know Rick was a Jedi Knight and Jonathan was his Padewan... And Imhotep was really Jonathan and Evelyn's father. However the sabre battle was cut out during post production due to copyright issues with Lucas.
... That they have to go to http://208.65.153.251/ or edit their hosts file to do it.
Full and Accurate specification, i don't think it can be full and accurate, in my experience it either has everything in it but it is not what the user wants or it has what the user wants but not everything is in it. Should create some programming law about that.
Don't discount the users opinions, but it is a good software designers job to ask questions and offer suggestions to get around the users weird ideas. But observe them, if you understand the process they are trying to do then you can offer alternatives which might help them, and make their lives easier... They will love you for it, then curse the programmers who can't work to your perfect software.
But the way i understood it with quantum entanglement is that two entangled particles have an indetermined state such as polorisation which gets set when you check for it...
If you check for polorisation on any plane it will happen to be polorised in that plane, but so then would the other, but if you had chosen a different plane it would be polorised in that way. So its not like writing the number, because it is set when its read and the other entangled particle of sufficient distance away to be faster than light communication is set to a known polorisation, can't remember if its the same or at 90 degrees.
I may be talking rubbish though, its been 10 years since i did particle/quantum physics in school.
Its been some time since i read a physics book, but a while ago i read somewhere that relativity is symetrical around the speed of light, and it is possible for particles to go above the speed of light (tachyons). It would take an infinite amount of energy to reduce a particle to the speed of light as it would to increase one to the speed of light if the particle has mass.
But photons speed surely could be increased as they could be reduced given the correct situation.
You still can't get your rocket with mass to go faster than light, and not sure if you could gain propulsion from particles going faster than light by ejecting them out of the back. Who knows maybe in 50 years i can get a decent internet connection using faster than light particles.