When rumours of DL burners first came about, I thought of the obvious thing that's also mentioned in the article: Since all DVD players can focus the laser onto two layers, what's stopping any of the current DVD burners from dual layer burning? (Except the lack of firmware, of course.)
Or maybe I'm just desperate having purchased a vanilla DVD burner a few months ago...
No no no, the point about quantum cryptography is that if you try to act as a repeater, you will always distort the signal. Merely using single photons is not enough.
make every button programmable, so it could be used as an audio spectrum visualisation or something.
I agree this would be awesome. Also, a program to teach touch typing might use this to illuminate a key you need to find, thus you'd more easily find and learn the positions of keys.
In fact many many programs would benefit if they could illuminate the keys used at any moment. I'm sure this is already done in touchscreen systems.
Then again, a programmably illuminated keyboard is a kind of touchscreen in itself. If it were available, I'm sure someone could hack it into a display console of some kind. For example, you could pipe text into it by illuminating letters in succession.
However, as a touch typist and a Discordian I don't want anything of the Illuminati kind on my desk;-)
You can see the color reflect from the surface of many professional lens are not white - usually redish or slight greenish. The less white light reflects from the lens' surface, the better the coating.
The coating must be chosen for a particular wavelength, and it works less optimally for wavelengths away from it. (In fact, the coating is a quarter-wavelength thickness of material whose optical impedance is between that of the glass and the air.)
For visible light, the coating is usually chosen for green light as it's in the middle of the spectrum. Hence what it reflects, is mostly red and violet from the extreme wavelengths. So you see a purplish reflection.
That would mean a Solaris kernel with GNU userland tools. But the tools are not going to change into GNU software merely by being GPLed, moreover the kernel of Solaris is called SunOS.
instantaneous communications between two sub-atomic particles
Both quantum cryptography and quantum teleportation rely on the entanglement of two particles separated by macroscopic distances, and the 'instantaneous' effect that takes place between them. However, neither of them allows information transfer at superluminal speeds. They still require a classical communication channel to make use of the quantum entanglement.
I'm still amazed the miguel hasn't sued Google for appropriating the Gnome naming scheme: take program 'ackbar' and prepend the letter 'g', resulting in 'gackbar'. Or, option b, take program 'outlook' and replace first letter with 'g', resulting in 'gutlook'.
This applies to GNU software more generally, not just GNOME. In any case it has nothing to do with Google, which is probably derived from the large number Googol or Googolplex, that had the initial G to begin with.
all the stability of Windows and the user-friendliness of Linux!
I understand this is a joke, but IMHO Windows is not terribly user-friendly. I work as an admin in a mixed Windows/Linux high school, and I think 95% of my time is spent fixing up Windows machines. (About 1/3 of the machines run Linux, but one of them is our web/nfs/samba/mail server which gets most of the Linux attention.) Mainly because Windows needs to be reimaged from time to time, and because installs and configs require reboots (even on XP, though not as much as 9x).
From a desktop user point of view, the differences are minimal, when you take into account that people are more used to Windows. Of course, it helps a little that we use OO.org and Mozilla on both platforms.
The problem with that is that sometimes Windows doesn't like to do things on a samba share, such as installing a program to a samba share I believe.
I've done these installations successfully. I work in a high school, we have about fifty W98 workstations using programs installed on a single Linux server.
I already use my mouse with my left hand, you insensitive clods!
Me too, and I'm supposed to be right-handed. It's hard to describe how fun and efficient this is until you've tried. I can use my right hand on the keyboard while mousing with the left. The reverse is kind of hard if you're right-handed. I constantly wonder why people need scrollwheel mouses, as I can use the arrow keys for that quite comfortably.
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* The CAT / MR scanners at a Danish hospital
Obviously, if they wanted to scan something they should have used grep instead of cat.
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Am I the only one here with a dirty imagination?
That's pretty k3w1 considering IRC was invented in 1988.
Or maybe I'm just desperate having purchased a vanilla DVD burner a few months ago...
No no no, the point about quantum cryptography is that if you try to act as a repeater, you will always distort the signal. Merely using single photons is not enough.
I agree this would be awesome. Also, a program to teach touch typing might use this to illuminate a key you need to find, thus you'd more easily find and learn the positions of keys.
In fact many many programs would benefit if they could illuminate the keys used at any moment. I'm sure this is already done in touchscreen systems. Then again, a programmably illuminated keyboard is a kind of touchscreen in itself. If it were available, I'm sure someone could hack it into a display console of some kind. For example, you could pipe text into it by illuminating letters in succession.
However, as a touch typist and a Discordian I don't want anything of the Illuminati kind on my desk ;-)
The coating must be chosen for a particular wavelength, and it works less optimally for wavelengths away from it. (In fact, the coating is a quarter-wavelength thickness of material whose optical impedance is between that of the glass and the air.)
For visible light, the coating is usually chosen for green light as it's in the middle of the spectrum. Hence what it reflects, is mostly red and violet from the extreme wavelengths. So you see a purplish reflection.
CCD is already being replaced by CMOS sensors.
That would mean a Solaris kernel with GNU userland tools. But the tools are not going to change into GNU software merely by being GPLed, moreover the kernel of Solaris is called SunOS.
How about porting the existing codec to Windows instead of re-inventing wheels on all platforms?
Both quantum cryptography and quantum teleportation rely on the entanglement of two particles separated by macroscopic distances, and the 'instantaneous' effect that takes place between them. However, neither of them allows information transfer at superluminal speeds. They still require a classical communication channel to make use of the quantum entanglement.
Actually, Neti has a lot to do with removing bottlenecks and increasing nasal bandwidth.
It's a soft G, as in "Ladies and Gentoomen".
If you store it on the Desktop, it won't take any space on the C Drive, right? ;)
This applies to GNU software more generally, not just GNOME. In any case it has nothing to do with Google, which is probably derived from the large number Googol or Googolplex, that had the initial G to begin with.
I understand this is a joke, but IMHO Windows is not terribly user-friendly. I work as an admin in a mixed Windows/Linux high school, and I think 95% of my time is spent fixing up Windows machines. (About 1/3 of the machines run Linux, but one of them is our web/nfs/samba/mail server which gets most of the Linux attention.) Mainly because Windows needs to be reimaged from time to time, and because installs and configs require reboots (even on XP, though not as much as 9x).
From a desktop user point of view, the differences are minimal, when you take into account that people are more used to Windows. Of course, it helps a little that we use OO.org and Mozilla on both platforms.
It was declared hazardous to health decades ago... worse than lead in some ways :-/
I'm afraid you're confusing /dev/null with the trash /bin. You should be emptying the system /bin as well as the /users' /bin.
On the other hand, wouldn't a lead package protect against outside radiation?
I've done these installations successfully. I work in a high school, we have about fifty W98 workstations using programs installed on a single Linux server.
Bandwidth or latency?
I thought it said drugs in my rice krispies...
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Me too, and I'm supposed to be right-handed. It's hard to describe how fun and efficient this is until you've tried. I can use my right hand on the keyboard while mousing with the left. The reverse is kind of hard if you're right-handed. I constantly wonder why people need scrollwheel mouses, as I can use the arrow keys for that quite comfortably.