It is the hope of the research team that this experiment will lead to commercial use of quantum teleportation to interact with satellites and ground stations. This will increase the efficiency of satellite communication...
You can't send information via quantum teleportation, so exactly how do they plan to use it in satellite communication?
TFA assumes everyone's buying into the corporate state BS. Let's try to remember that people are not the machines they operate, the are not just resources, and there's more to life than just your studies or your job. This goes double for children.
Forget the practical hurdles of bio engineering or the heat death of the universe. Say you can exist forever.
Model your mind as a finite state machine. Given enough time - prodigious as this may be - you will eventually experience all possible states and start to wrap around to previous ones. Even unbounded, you, as a thinking entity, remain finite, and finite remains effectively death.
The only escape from this unbound death is to change and grow the mind in some physical way. Say you can also do this indefinitely. This is also effectively death, since what you were will no longer exist.
Or perhaps you, now being effectively infinite in both time and space, can remember your original states and play them again and again. Sort of like a broken record, an infinite jest.
Nobody's going to use a tablet if they actually have to do useful work. Somebody's got their heads up their ass at Redmond if they think that it's appropriate to try to roll those two use cases together.
This has to be either a systematic or a fluke. The only thing that could conceivably have an influence on nuclear decay rates is the neutrino flux, which would not show the diurnal variations that they claim, and which furthermore would be completely uncorrelated with solar flares, since neutrinos propagate at the speed of light from the solar core through the envelope, while thermal effects take millenia to propagate.
Flares are driven by magnetic, not thermal forces.
This reminds me of the last update to weather.com. They had a perfectly good layout, and then changed it to vertical for users would want to see it on a smart phone or iPad. This effectively took a piss on users that accessed the site with regular computers, but they didn't seem to care.
The same "other device" thinking came to Netflix with their last web interface update. From a computer user's point of view, they made a ton of really serious UI design mistakes. But it's not designed for computer users, but people accessing the site from their TV using a remote.
Then there's consolitis that's been hitting PC games for so long. Any game interaction or features that a controller can't handle? Gone, altered, or otherwise messed up.
In this vein I propose a new term to the Windows 8 OS redesign. "iPadItis"
Why yes. Yes, they are. Static typing is unquestionably one of the key dividing software-political issues of our time. And static typing is a hallmark of the conservative world-view.
I stopped right there and decided this guy is an idiot.
But if you study political history, it's pretty clear where the foundation of what is currently called the Conservative / Liberal viewpoints came from, and you can trace it back several hundred years to John Locke and Thomas Hobbs: Which is more important: The social collective or the individual?
If you study political history, you will realize that this is a wrong characterization of the early distinction between conservative and liberal.
The difference was that liberals believed that you could build a better society by tearing down the old order and building up a new one in its place, whereas conservatives believed that change should be slow and organic, and should not disrupt the old order. In more concrete terms, liberals supported the French Revolution and conservatives were monarchists.
The only way they are not mutually exclusive is if the socialism is somehow consensual; give according to your own choice. If the government is the socialist institution and the common means are 'taken' rather than 'given' by the individuals, then the libertarianism is just a wish.
You could have pockets of socialism within a greater Libertarian society so long as membership in, 'taxes' to, and departure from those pockets is totally up to the individuals involved. A medical care 'community'. A food production and sharing community. But not big-S state Socialism.
By 'big-S' you really mean Totalitarianism, which is a political system, not an economic one - even if one of its concerns is indeed economic control.
Now, given the normally U.S. libertarian bent of the Slashdot audience, it is understandable that an outright British Socialist writer like Brunner would get short shrift, but it got me thinking: what Sci-fi writers do you know that are, in your opinion, vastly underappreciated?"
Libertarianism is a political philosophy, socialism is an economic system. One does preclude the other, nor are they related.
Courses are mostly memorization, and I find that I promptly forget anything I write down. Forgetting == time waster. Why not remember it the first time you hear it? Never go to a lecture with a way of taking notes, and you'll be surprised how much you remember when you're motivated not to forget.
Added bonus: after a while you build a natural ability to remember a lot of stuff.
Oh right, because if anything, hack & slash dungeon crawlers were in need of moar shiny crap to look at, not something like mold-breaking gameplay, level editors and modding.
D3 is needlessly heavy on effects for the gameplay it delivers, it has all the signs of graphical featuritus and totally reused gameplay elements that almost any other AAA title has. You can't lay the blame for that on "consoles"' it is a cross platform problem.
Modding? Level editors? On an also-on-console game? LOL!
This is kind of the whole the point of my lament. Conole-also games trash or completely drop features that don't lend themselves to use with a controller.
Same goes for any kind of graphics innovation, which is not necessarily limited to higher detail.
That being said, I agree that D3 problems go beyond that. Dev was done by the WoW team, which was a mistake.
And I was disappointed that nobody would teach me algebra until 8th grade. They made me wait years because it was apparently an unreasonable burden on the education system, even though the 'tards got one-on-one with specialized teachers all day, every day.
I don't understand why we don't allow students to specialize at least some of their education to their own proclivities, and I certainly don't understand why we all have to do everything in lockstep.
'Why "junk?" Because the original intent of the Internet was that links were gold, that searchability was key, that this ability to find anything and use resources from wherever was magic. And this new web? The web of pictures with text over them? They're junk. They're a dead end. The picture is the payload.'
Everything is junk that doesn't conform to the "Original intent of the internet?" Seriously?
'The lesson of the Facebook fiasco for Silicon Valley is clear. Start-up entrepreneurs cannot evade the discipline of the capital markets any more than can the prime ministers of Spain and Italy.'"
They were doing fine, and now they're not because of the IPO. Why isn't this lesson, 'just don't go public'?
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It is the hope of the research team that this experiment will lead to commercial use of quantum teleportation to interact with satellites and ground stations. This will increase the efficiency of satellite communication...
You can't send information via quantum teleportation, so exactly how do they plan to use it in satellite communication?
TFA assumes everyone's buying into the corporate state BS. Let's try to remember that people are not the machines they operate, the are not just resources, and there's more to life than just your studies or your job. This goes double for children.
good regular HD? 4K would only mean more expensive service with even worse overcompression.
That's 200 to 250 tractor trailers.
Forget the practical hurdles of bio engineering or the heat death of the universe. Say you can exist forever.
Model your mind as a finite state machine. Given enough time - prodigious as this may be - you will eventually experience all possible states and start to wrap around to previous ones. Even unbounded, you, as a thinking entity, remain finite, and finite remains effectively death.
The only escape from this unbound death is to change and grow the mind in some physical way. Say you can also do this indefinitely. This is also effectively death, since what you were will no longer exist.
Or perhaps you, now being effectively infinite in both time and space, can remember your original states and play them again and again. Sort of like a broken record, an infinite jest.
He evidently obtained a PHD this year so his earning potential is well above average.
Bwahahaahahahaha!
when nobody I want to elect will get a chance to participate?
Nobody's going to use a tablet if they actually have to do useful work.
Somebody's got their heads up their ass at Redmond if they think that it's appropriate to try to roll those two use cases together.
This has to be either a systematic or a fluke. The only thing that could conceivably have an influence on nuclear decay rates is the neutrino flux, which would not show the diurnal variations that they claim, and which furthermore would be completely uncorrelated with solar flares, since neutrinos propagate at the speed of light from the solar core through the envelope, while thermal effects take millenia to propagate.
Flares are driven by magnetic, not thermal forces.
This reminds me of the last update to weather.com. They had a perfectly good layout, and then changed it to vertical for users would want to see it on a smart phone or iPad. This effectively took a piss on users that accessed the site with regular computers, but they didn't seem to care. The same "other device" thinking came to Netflix with their last web interface update. From a computer user's point of view, they made a ton of really serious UI design mistakes. But it's not designed for computer users, but people accessing the site from their TV using a remote.
Then there's consolitis that's been hitting PC games for so long. Any game interaction or features that a controller can't handle? Gone, altered, or otherwise messed up.
In this vein I propose a new term to the Windows 8 OS redesign. "iPadItis"
Why yes. Yes, they are. Static typing is unquestionably one of the key dividing software-political issues of our time. And static typing is a hallmark of the conservative world-view.
I stopped right there and decided this guy is an idiot.
If you study political history, you will realize that this is a wrong characterization of the early distinction between conservative and liberal.
The difference was that liberals believed that you could build a better society by tearing down the old order and building up a new one in its place, whereas conservatives believed that change should be slow and organic, and should not disrupt the old order. In more concrete terms, liberals supported the French Revolution and conservatives were monarchists.
No. Libertarian != Conservative.
No. Progressive != Liberal.
How about, not a single accident reported.
The only way they are not mutually exclusive is if the socialism is somehow consensual; give according to your own choice. If the government is the socialist institution and the common means are 'taken' rather than 'given' by the individuals, then the libertarianism is just a wish.
You could have pockets of socialism within a greater Libertarian society so long as membership in, 'taxes' to, and departure from those pockets is totally up to the individuals involved. A medical care 'community'. A food production and sharing community. But not big-S state Socialism.
By 'big-S' you really mean Totalitarianism, which is a political system, not an economic one - even if one of its concerns is indeed economic control.
What I want to know is, why anyone would mod the comment down as off-topic when it speaks directly to the post.
The poster said "...it's understandable that [blatantly false premise]..." and I can't suggest a correction? WTF.
Now, given the normally U.S. libertarian bent of the Slashdot audience, it is understandable that an outright British Socialist writer like Brunner would get short shrift, but it got me thinking: what Sci-fi writers do you know that are, in your opinion, vastly underappreciated?"
Libertarianism is a political philosophy, socialism is an economic system. One does preclude the other, nor are they related.
Courses are mostly memorization, and I find that I promptly forget anything I write down. Forgetting == time waster. Why not remember it the first time you hear it? Never go to a lecture with a way of taking notes, and you'll be surprised how much you remember when you're motivated not to forget.
Added bonus: after a while you build a natural ability to remember a lot of stuff.
Get rid of the crutch, it only holds you back.
the perpetuation of obvious falsehoods within a specific culture or ideology, for lack of active (if impolite) correction.
Oh right, because if anything, hack & slash dungeon crawlers were in need of moar shiny crap to look at, not something like mold-breaking gameplay, level editors and modding.
D3 is needlessly heavy on effects for the gameplay it delivers, it has all the signs of graphical featuritus and totally reused gameplay elements that almost any other AAA title has. You can't lay the blame for that on "consoles"' it is a cross platform problem.
Modding? Level editors? On an also-on-console game? LOL!
This is kind of the whole the point of my lament. Conole-also games trash or completely drop features that don't lend themselves to use with a controller.
Same goes for any kind of graphics innovation, which is not necessarily limited to higher detail.
That being said, I agree that D3 problems go beyond that. Dev was done by the WoW team, which was a mistake.
I thought the edge enhancement was innovative, artsy, and useful. I could actually see what I needed to shoot.
Also, everything's made for consoles first now... level of detail has actually been sliding backwards. I mean, look at how the ruined Diablo III.
than it actually was.
I was picturing a wild, multicolored, gene-spliced ball of fur tearing around, shoving badgers in lion's ears 'n shit.
Math prof asks "are supply/demand curves really necessary?"
Hey, don't knock Game Theory. Microeconomics has lots of interesting math.
And I was disappointed that nobody would teach me algebra until 8th grade. They made me wait years because it was apparently an unreasonable burden on the education system, even though the 'tards got one-on-one with specialized teachers all day, every day.
I don't understand why we don't allow students to specialize at least some of their education to their own proclivities, and I certainly don't understand why we all have to do everything in lockstep.
'Why "junk?" Because the original intent of the Internet was that links were gold, that searchability was key, that this ability to find anything and use resources from wherever was magic. And this new web? The web of pictures with text over them? They're junk. They're a dead end. The picture is the payload.'
Everything is junk that doesn't conform to the "Original intent of the internet?" Seriously?
'The lesson of the Facebook fiasco for Silicon Valley is clear. Start-up entrepreneurs cannot evade the discipline of the capital markets any more than can the prime ministers of Spain and Italy.'"
They were doing fine, and now they're not because of the IPO. Why isn't this lesson, 'just don't go public'?