I agree with you -- they are lucky. I'm not sure my wife and I could do such a thing. (I'd like to think so.) I've been married for over 12 years. When we get really old, I have one wish: that my wife and I die in some accidental circumstance together that is quick and painless for both of us. I can't imagine a better way to go: no worries before hand about when it happens (since we aren't expecting it) and neither of us have to live without each other.
A friends father in law got scammed with this a few years ago, and my friend was somewhat livid because he'd explicitly told them about such scams and to hang up on anybody who is telling you that. But people don't know that Microsoft doesn't really have your phone number and aren't monitoring your system.
With all of the news coming out about the monitoring done by the government and large corporations (like Google and Microsoft), it will be interesting to see if those on the front line start getting more stories like this.
Anecdotal Story: About two or three years ago, I was driving along the Interstate and saw white smoke coming from a vehicle on the side of the road. I pulled over, grabbed my fire extinguisher (I always keep one in the car) and tried to put it out. It didn't work. The 1970 Chevy went up in flames. No one was in the car, so no one was hurt but the guy was just driving it back from the service dealer. It was hard watching a man that I didn't know at all cry. By the time the fire truck showed up, parts of the car were dripping onto the ground and giant yellow flames with thick, black smoke were billowing in the air. That car was real nice looking too. Hell, I wanted to cry.
I feel your pain! ST: Generations had way too many problems. I feel they fixed a lot of the problems in First Contact. The whole Queen Borg argument aside, I thought that movie was pretty well done.
I do love Star Trek, especially TNG, DS9, and the new movies. I find myself having to isolate each episode (or movie) from any other episode (or movie) so I can enjoy it. There really is no continuity. One of the best things that illustrates that is Nitpickers TNG Guide. I had an older copy of that book and really enjoyed it.
I'm posting to you directly instead of raymorris, but I completely agree with raymorris. Oh... and I'd ignore people like joss. (I gave him an ear full by the way.)
I'd love to hear what you have to say and I sincerely doubt raymorris and I are the only ones. To me, any insight that a person who has been through changes like this is very welcome to give me their stories and advice. If you do decide to write something up, please let me know.
Only an American would be naive. Disclaimer: I am American.
You should meet my wife. She's 100% German and moved to the United States only when we got married. She was over 30 at the time. When we met several years before our marriage, her speech and written word was flawless even then. Her accent morphs to whatever English speaking country she is in. She is freakin' talented. He says her nightmare is speaking with an American, a Brit, and a Australian at the same time because she wouldn't know which accent to use. It bears repeating again: I can attest that her American accent and use of language is flawless. Her written prose is flawless.
I corrected her English only once. She then corrected me. I consulted a dictionary to prove her wrong and it turns out she was right. She kicks my ass in English -- and I'm the native speaker. Now, with that said, there are two things you need to know. Her profession is translation so she was trained. She comes from a family of translators and interpreters. The other thing you should know is that she isn't the only one with these kinds of talents that I've met. I am now learning German and one of the guys in my class speaks native Spanish, good Romanian (his wife is Romanian), and pretty good English (of which I can attest). His German abilities completely outstrip mine.
I don't normally rail against someone... especially someone with a 4 digit ID, but I'm telling you that you need to get off the computer and get more face-to-face time with other people. There are people who walk around you and just because you think they speak American doesn't mean that they are American or even from North America. Right now, I'm living in a foreign country and I'm in the linguistic circles because of my wife. I am exposed to a lot of really talented people out there. Some of them are not even formally trained like my wife.
I suggest you apologize to Taco Cowboy -- another 4 digit ID, I might add. He was saying something important and it's not the first time I've personally seen him post something like this. This is very personal thing for him to open up to people -- especially on Slashdot like this. I surmise he hurts on the inside to watch what is happening to America -- a country he obviously loves. Then to have someone like you come along, act like an asshole, and call him a liar is just a horrendous insult to someone like him.
I had to learn the hard way that I'm not the most talented person in this world. No matter how good I get in whatever I pursue, there is always going to be a lot of people who are a whole lot better than I am. Grow a pair, apologize to Taco Cowboy, and learn that others don't have the same limitations you have.
Interestingly enough, this idea was (partly) tackled in the Generations movie with Geordi, LeVar Burton's character. Somebody got a hold of his visor, figured out the passcodes the Enterprise was using for shielding, and destroyed the Enterprise. It's probably part of the reason why his occular implants were changed when the next movie rolled around. (That and it looked cooler than the banana-clip-inspired head piece.)
It gets better. I was looking at a company that needed a programmer. I had a friend who was a manager there. My friend didn't need me, but he knew another manager who did. The other manager and I were forced to run gauntlet through HR. After a while, I asked what happened to my resume. My friend and the other manager said, "What resume?" HR had swallowed it and never gave it to them. After HR was alerted to not throw my resume away, they still did. It took 3 times before my resume got to the manager and if I recall, it was my friend who brought it to the manager personally. Yet, for some stupid reason, HR had to be the middle man between me and the other manager. The new goal was to set up a time for a phone interview. They screwed that up badly... real badly. I told my friend he could keep his company. He finally talked me into speaking to the manager directly. I agreed so long as HR would be totally out of the picture. Unfortunately, by that point there was so much bad blood between me and the company (because of HR) I never did want that job. It could have been the greatest job in the world, but HR ruined it. I only spoke to the manager for a few minutes I can tell you my heart wasn't into it. My thoughts: "Why would I want to work for a company that is so bloated their HR stops a manager and a potential employee from getting together?" Was it true or not? Who knows? I didn't want to expend the energy to find out.
Personally, I still don't trust the automated cars, but I very much wish the technology would mature enough so that automated driving becomes a reality. So far, no study I've seen actually has tested these cars in a harsh driving environment (high traffic in rush hour in the middle of a large city) and compared their accident rate to "the average".
And what is "the average"? It can be seen from many different vantage points. Personally, I rate safety as the #1 average that I go by. I choose my cars based on safety -- that includes the ability to see out of the windows clearly with my particular build. Insurance companies base their average on money as gnoshi indicated. (I also think his comment deserve a mod or two.)
I owned the same car for 11 years and I think I earned the above average title based on my history. I had one major accident which, in the end, totaled the car. The cop who happened to be behind me saw the drunk driver pull out in front of me. There was nothing I could do. The other 3 accidents I had were "love taps" as I got rear ended by others. I was at a complete stop in each circumstance. Strangely, in each of the circumstances, had a computer been driving the other cars, I would have never had any accidents even with me driving my own car. I don't text, don't make phone calls, and don't punch an address into a GPS system while driving. 100% of my attention is on the road. I very much believe I am in a killing machine when I drive. That mentality probably helped keep my driving record "above average".
I know I'm not infallible. I've made a lot of mistakes over those 11 years with that car. I've just been damn lucky. They only thing they haven't proven is that they can handle others' driving. Like that drunk asshole who pulled out in front of me. (I was not his first accident.) I also had a few years of experience to draw from -- I wasn't that good when I started driving, that's for sure. I'm very much for automated driving. They've proven to me that the technology can be viable.
You know what, I think I changed my mind since I started writing this. Maybe the short term pain of transition is worth it even if the automated cars do have a slightly higher accident rate in the short term. If 99% of the people wind up in automated cars in the next 10 - 15 years, the accidents rates have to be much lower and insurance costs should be lower. Drunk asshole drivers would disappear and those love taps won't happen again. If a year-long test phase in a few major cities during rush hour pans out half way decently, I'd be game for trying out one of these cars.
I can't help but wonder if Obama supporters are colluding with Obama detractors.
What kinds of putrid evil do you speak, Sir Runaway? Why it almost sounds as if you are suggesting Republicans and Democrats have similar goals of villainy. Such a thing cannot be fathomed. Do you not know that that supporters and detractors must indeed be on opposite sides! Just because both sides wish to take our money for themselves and turn us into a police state and remove our freedoms, can you not see they each use different methodologies to get us there? It would indeed be preposterous that the two factions who control our very lives would work together to manipulate us. Your very suggestion offends me.
Now, should it be your wish, you may let me know whether you are a supporter or a detractor. I understand through the directions of my overlords, it is my chivalrous duty to take the opposite side as you. Good day to you, sir.
I wish. The last time I tried this with a friend of mine about 6 months ago, it failed. 6 months before that, it failed. Call me boneheaded if you want, but if I can't get it to work 100% of the time every time, then Joe User certainly won't either.
For the curious, I was trying to use Thunderbird with Enigmail. My friend just simply couldn't decrypt what I sent him... but I could decrypt his stuff just fine. No clue why it was rejecting my stuff for him.
Glad you work at Medtronic. Glad I saw this article.
My best friend became a paraplegic last year. He's my age so it really struck home. I was thrilled when he asked me last weekend to write him a program for Android to help out with his daily habits. That program will have more meaning to me than any other program I've written. I was so excited after talking with him that I woke up at 3 AM the next morning and wrote semi-formal requirements for the program that he could approve. It may take me a while to successfully squeeze in the required time to learn Android programming (I've never done it before) and the time to write and debug the actual program, but I'm determined to do it. (What he wants requires a little tricky programming, but it's simple enough. And yes, of course it will be open source and I'll publish the code.)
Keep up the good work. I'm hoping to work for a company that gives me fulfillment soon too. (It's a goal.)
Pretty sure. I've gotten toner on me while working with the big machines at work. It smells different and doesn't cause any kind of allergic reaction. On high-ozone days, we both tend to get headaches and dry throats... very similar symptoms to what laser printers can give us. Interestingly enough, I don't have any of those problems in the office even when I sat just a couple of cubes over from one of those things.
I know it’s poor taste to reply to your own thread, but after more thought, I’ve come up with more questions. I suppose these are more philosophical. I ask for forgiveness in advance.
1) Is the Big Bang nothing more than our universe going through the equivalent of a birefrigent plate? If so, does this mean that our universe existed “before” the Big Bang? That brings me to my next question.
2) In the experiment, we are a god-like observer with time surrounding us. We make sure particles are entangled BEFORE they pass through the plate. (There is a time factor here even if time doesn’t seem to be a factor between the particles.) We send entangled particles through the birefrigent plate and we know that the entangles particles now have a different state. When we observe the particles as a pair AFTER they pass through the plate, does this mean that the observer was always in some sort of entanglement with the pair of particles (and not just a single particle)? Is this some kind of different entanglement? If so, does this imply that time always exist even between universes? (Gads... I hope I made some sort of sense in this question. It’s kind of hard to ask.)
3) Can a solid particle and a photon be two sides of the same coin? This experiment seems to imply that all particles / photons are exactly the same for the god-like observer (since different properties fall out only when observation takes place). That could mean that particles and photons are truly one and the same thing. Or perhaps this means that the god-like observer cannot observe the differentiating properties without become part of that universe that he created and that’s why everything looks the same?
I have a thousand more questions and I wish I could understand the math behind all this. This kind of stuff has always excited me and I always want to know more. Unfortunately, as I indicated in the parent post, I’m not gifted enough nor educated enough to understand like other can. I’m destined to always be just an ignorant observer (har har) without truly understanding what is going on. For that, if any of my questions seem too trivial, I ask you to just forgive me.
I have a question for those smarter and more knowledgeable than I am. I read the article and I get the following impression: When we see two particles "entangled" (before the experiment occurs), we become the god-like observer. When we observe the particles as a pair after they pass through the birefringent plate, we continue to see them as an entangled pair. We keep the god-like observer state. However, if we measure just one of them after they pass through the birefringent plate, we become entangled with them and time pops out as a property.
Question 1: Is my impression correct? (If not, correct it.) Question 2: Is it possible to measure both as a pair (keeping the god-like observer state) then measure only one of them afterward to get the time difference between the two? Or does the initial measure after the experiment is over re-entangle us? What happens if we measure that second time?
Another question for someone to answer: What about ozone discharge? My wife and I get headaches from the laser printers so we went back to inkjets in our home office. (She used to print out 100 - 200 pages at a time even with a window open, the office stank for quite a while.) It looks like people like Brother (B&W) lasers and Kyocera lasers are the favorites here. Anyone have anything to say about the ozone pollution these things throw out? Or how to get lasers with minimal ozone discharge?
I'm an American living in Germany. V for Vendetta is not only correct, but the few people I have spoken to have their fingers in their ears. They complained more about the Americans' secret surveillance watching them rather than about the secret surveillance of the German government watching them. At least they agreed when I politely told them that they should tell their government to stop allowing the Americans to spy on them. They are their own country and didn't have to bow to American whims.
Unfortunately, I have not been able to go in depth into these types of conversations. (My German is not the greatest.) The only German person who went into depth into this topic spoke English and they didn't want to hear how that the we (modern day Germany and America) are spying in ways that would make the Stasi jizz in their pants. This person could not face that kind of reality and I suspect there are many, many others like them.
Don't know about grandparent, but I have a modern full-sized keyboard with a sleep button. I still use it... but only because I popped off that particular key. I don't know why they thought it was a good idea to do that.
I'd prefer a way to unerase the stuff I did as a minor. There's some info I once had on MySpace that I'd kinda like back, but apparently they wiped all of that...:(
Dude. You're a little behind the times. Blink tags don't work anymore.
Or perhaps it was meant to be funny, but not really a joke at all. If he truly was asked to put a back door in, "they" would certainly not want him to say anything about it. At this point, he can honestly tell them they he did not violate whatever they wanted him to do. He can tell them it was simply a joke and point to many people (like here in Slashdot) who interpreted it as a joke. The tin-foil hat crowd, however, understood correctly.
Was it a joke or was it a nod and wink? We may never know, but he gave a great answer in either case. It will keep everyone on their toes... which is exactly what we should be doing anyway.
Her name is Barbara Shipman and here is a down to earth article about the whole thing. She's easy to google if you want more info about her. She was raised around bees and studied mathematics. One day, as she studied the math, she recognized the two dimensional projection of a 6-D "flag manifold". (I'm not a mathematician. I have no idea what that is or even if I'm using the term right.)
I kept this article because it is an easy article to give to young girls that they can understand. I use it (along with other examples) to encourage them to go into the field of mathematics or traditionally male-oriented fields.
It's trolling when the party seeking to enforce their patent rights has no intention of selling an actual working implementation on the open market.
Yup. This is why when revising the patent system (or copyright system as well), there needs to be a place where people or businesses can license the use of the patent (or copyright). No one is denied the ability to pay for and use it. The price is the same across the board for every company or person. Hoarding the intellectual property should be absolutely impossible.
A few others (this story, different thread) also pointed out that bad patents are granted too easily. Yeah. That absolutely needs to end too.
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I agree with you -- they are lucky. I'm not sure my wife and I could do such a thing. (I'd like to think so.) I've been married for over 12 years. When we get really old, I have one wish: that my wife and I die in some accidental circumstance together that is quick and painless for both of us. I can't imagine a better way to go: no worries before hand about when it happens (since we aren't expecting it) and neither of us have to live without each other.
A friends father in law got scammed with this a few years ago, and my friend was somewhat livid because he'd explicitly told them about such scams and to hang up on anybody who is telling you that. But people don't know that Microsoft doesn't really have your phone number and aren't monitoring your system.
With all of the news coming out about the monitoring done by the government and large corporations (like Google and Microsoft), it will be interesting to see if those on the front line start getting more stories like this.
Anecdotal Story: About two or three years ago, I was driving along the Interstate and saw white smoke coming from a vehicle on the side of the road. I pulled over, grabbed my fire extinguisher (I always keep one in the car) and tried to put it out. It didn't work. The 1970 Chevy went up in flames. No one was in the car, so no one was hurt but the guy was just driving it back from the service dealer. It was hard watching a man that I didn't know at all cry. By the time the fire truck showed up, parts of the car were dripping onto the ground and giant yellow flames with thick, black smoke were billowing in the air. That car was real nice looking too. Hell, I wanted to cry.
I feel your pain! ST: Generations had way too many problems. I feel they fixed a lot of the problems in First Contact. The whole Queen Borg argument aside, I thought that movie was pretty well done.
I do love Star Trek, especially TNG, DS9, and the new movies. I find myself having to isolate each episode (or movie) from any other episode (or movie) so I can enjoy it. There really is no continuity. One of the best things that illustrates that is Nitpickers TNG Guide. I had an older copy of that book and really enjoyed it.
I'm posting to you directly instead of raymorris, but I completely agree with raymorris. Oh... and I'd ignore people like joss. (I gave him an ear full by the way.)
I'd love to hear what you have to say and I sincerely doubt raymorris and I are the only ones. To me, any insight that a person who has been through changes like this is very welcome to give me their stories and advice. If you do decide to write something up, please let me know.
Only an American would be naive. Disclaimer: I am American.
You should meet my wife. She's 100% German and moved to the United States only when we got married. She was over 30 at the time. When we met several years before our marriage, her speech and written word was flawless even then. Her accent morphs to whatever English speaking country she is in. She is freakin' talented. He says her nightmare is speaking with an American, a Brit, and a Australian at the same time because she wouldn't know which accent to use. It bears repeating again: I can attest that her American accent and use of language is flawless. Her written prose is flawless.
I corrected her English only once. She then corrected me. I consulted a dictionary to prove her wrong and it turns out she was right. She kicks my ass in English -- and I'm the native speaker. Now, with that said, there are two things you need to know. Her profession is translation so she was trained. She comes from a family of translators and interpreters. The other thing you should know is that she isn't the only one with these kinds of talents that I've met. I am now learning German and one of the guys in my class speaks native Spanish, good Romanian (his wife is Romanian), and pretty good English (of which I can attest). His German abilities completely outstrip mine.
I don't normally rail against someone... especially someone with a 4 digit ID, but I'm telling you that you need to get off the computer and get more face-to-face time with other people. There are people who walk around you and just because you think they speak American doesn't mean that they are American or even from North America. Right now, I'm living in a foreign country and I'm in the linguistic circles because of my wife. I am exposed to a lot of really talented people out there. Some of them are not even formally trained like my wife.
I suggest you apologize to Taco Cowboy -- another 4 digit ID, I might add. He was saying something important and it's not the first time I've personally seen him post something like this. This is very personal thing for him to open up to people -- especially on Slashdot like this. I surmise he hurts on the inside to watch what is happening to America -- a country he obviously loves. Then to have someone like you come along, act like an asshole, and call him a liar is just a horrendous insult to someone like him.
I had to learn the hard way that I'm not the most talented person in this world. No matter how good I get in whatever I pursue, there is always going to be a lot of people who are a whole lot better than I am. Grow a pair, apologize to Taco Cowboy, and learn that others don't have the same limitations you have.
Interestingly enough, this idea was (partly) tackled in the Generations movie with Geordi, LeVar Burton's character. Somebody got a hold of his visor, figured out the passcodes the Enterprise was using for shielding, and destroyed the Enterprise. It's probably part of the reason why his occular implants were changed when the next movie rolled around. (That and it looked cooler than the banana-clip-inspired head piece.)
It gets better. I was looking at a company that needed a programmer. I had a friend who was a manager there. My friend didn't need me, but he knew another manager who did. The other manager and I were forced to run gauntlet through HR. After a while, I asked what happened to my resume. My friend and the other manager said, "What resume?" HR had swallowed it and never gave it to them. After HR was alerted to not throw my resume away, they still did. It took 3 times before my resume got to the manager and if I recall, it was my friend who brought it to the manager personally. Yet, for some stupid reason, HR had to be the middle man between me and the other manager. The new goal was to set up a time for a phone interview. They screwed that up badly... real badly. I told my friend he could keep his company. He finally talked me into speaking to the manager directly. I agreed so long as HR would be totally out of the picture. Unfortunately, by that point there was so much bad blood between me and the company (because of HR) I never did want that job. It could have been the greatest job in the world, but HR ruined it. I only spoke to the manager for a few minutes I can tell you my heart wasn't into it. My thoughts: "Why would I want to work for a company that is so bloated their HR stops a manager and a potential employee from getting together?" Was it true or not? Who knows? I didn't want to expend the energy to find out.
And the headache inducer: do you put an "a" or an "an" in front of the phrase "SQL Statement"?
What you wrote was my first thought.
Personally, I still don't trust the automated cars, but I very much wish the technology would mature enough so that automated driving becomes a reality. So far, no study I've seen actually has tested these cars in a harsh driving environment (high traffic in rush hour in the middle of a large city) and compared their accident rate to "the average".
And what is "the average"? It can be seen from many different vantage points. Personally, I rate safety as the #1 average that I go by. I choose my cars based on safety -- that includes the ability to see out of the windows clearly with my particular build. Insurance companies base their average on money as gnoshi indicated. (I also think his comment deserve a mod or two.)
I owned the same car for 11 years and I think I earned the above average title based on my history. I had one major accident which, in the end, totaled the car. The cop who happened to be behind me saw the drunk driver pull out in front of me. There was nothing I could do. The other 3 accidents I had were "love taps" as I got rear ended by others. I was at a complete stop in each circumstance. Strangely, in each of the circumstances, had a computer been driving the other cars, I would have never had any accidents even with me driving my own car. I don't text, don't make phone calls, and don't punch an address into a GPS system while driving. 100% of my attention is on the road. I very much believe I am in a killing machine when I drive. That mentality probably helped keep my driving record "above average".
I know I'm not infallible. I've made a lot of mistakes over those 11 years with that car. I've just been damn lucky. They only thing they haven't proven is that they can handle others' driving. Like that drunk asshole who pulled out in front of me. (I was not his first accident.) I also had a few years of experience to draw from -- I wasn't that good when I started driving, that's for sure. I'm very much for automated driving. They've proven to me that the technology can be viable.
You know what, I think I changed my mind since I started writing this. Maybe the short term pain of transition is worth it even if the automated cars do have a slightly higher accident rate in the short term. If 99% of the people wind up in automated cars in the next 10 - 15 years, the accidents rates have to be much lower and insurance costs should be lower. Drunk asshole drivers would disappear and those love taps won't happen again. If a year-long test phase in a few major cities during rush hour pans out half way decently, I'd be game for trying out one of these cars.
I can't help but wonder if Obama supporters are colluding with Obama detractors.
What kinds of putrid evil do you speak, Sir Runaway? Why it almost sounds as if you are suggesting Republicans and Democrats have similar goals of villainy. Such a thing cannot be fathomed. Do you not know that that supporters and detractors must indeed be on opposite sides! Just because both sides wish to take our money for themselves and turn us into a police state and remove our freedoms, can you not see they each use different methodologies to get us there? It would indeed be preposterous that the two factions who control our very lives would work together to manipulate us. Your very suggestion offends me.
Now, should it be your wish, you may let me know whether you are a supporter or a detractor. I understand through the directions of my overlords, it is my chivalrous duty to take the opposite side as you. Good day to you, sir.
I wish. The last time I tried this with a friend of mine about 6 months ago, it failed. 6 months before that, it failed. Call me boneheaded if you want, but if I can't get it to work 100% of the time every time, then Joe User certainly won't either.
For the curious, I was trying to use Thunderbird with Enigmail. My friend just simply couldn't decrypt what I sent him... but I could decrypt his stuff just fine. No clue why it was rejecting my stuff for him.
Glad you work at Medtronic. Glad I saw this article.
My best friend became a paraplegic last year. He's my age so it really struck home. I was thrilled when he asked me last weekend to write him a program for Android to help out with his daily habits. That program will have more meaning to me than any other program I've written. I was so excited after talking with him that I woke up at 3 AM the next morning and wrote semi-formal requirements for the program that he could approve. It may take me a while to successfully squeeze in the required time to learn Android programming (I've never done it before) and the time to write and debug the actual program, but I'm determined to do it. (What he wants requires a little tricky programming, but it's simple enough. And yes, of course it will be open source and I'll publish the code.)
Keep up the good work. I'm hoping to work for a company that gives me fulfillment soon too. (It's a goal.)
Pretty sure. I've gotten toner on me while working with the big machines at work. It smells different and doesn't cause any kind of allergic reaction. On high-ozone days, we both tend to get headaches and dry throats... very similar symptoms to what laser printers can give us. Interestingly enough, I don't have any of those problems in the office even when I sat just a couple of cubes over from one of those things.
I know it’s poor taste to reply to your own thread, but after more thought, I’ve come up with more questions. I suppose these are more philosophical. I ask for forgiveness in advance.
1) Is the Big Bang nothing more than our universe going through the equivalent of a birefrigent plate? If so, does this mean that our universe existed “before” the Big Bang? That brings me to my next question.
2) In the experiment, we are a god-like observer with time surrounding us. We make sure particles are entangled BEFORE they pass through the plate. (There is a time factor here even if time doesn’t seem to be a factor between the particles.) We send entangled particles through the birefrigent plate and we know that the entangles particles now have a different state. When we observe the particles as a pair AFTER they pass through the plate, does this mean that the observer was always in some sort of entanglement with the pair of particles (and not just a single particle)? Is this some kind of different entanglement? If so, does this imply that time always exist even between universes? (Gads... I hope I made some sort of sense in this question. It’s kind of hard to ask.)
3) Can a solid particle and a photon be two sides of the same coin? This experiment seems to imply that all particles / photons are exactly the same for the god-like observer (since different properties fall out only when observation takes place). That could mean that particles and photons are truly one and the same thing. Or perhaps this means that the god-like observer cannot observe the differentiating properties without become part of that universe that he created and that’s why everything looks the same?
I have a thousand more questions and I wish I could understand the math behind all this. This kind of stuff has always excited me and I always want to know more. Unfortunately, as I indicated in the parent post, I’m not gifted enough nor educated enough to understand like other can. I’m destined to always be just an ignorant observer (har har) without truly understanding what is going on. For that, if any of my questions seem too trivial, I ask you to just forgive me.
I have a question for those smarter and more knowledgeable than I am. I read the article and I get the following impression: When we see two particles "entangled" (before the experiment occurs), we become the god-like observer. When we observe the particles as a pair after they pass through the birefringent plate, we continue to see them as an entangled pair. We keep the god-like observer state. However, if we measure just one of them after they pass through the birefringent plate, we become entangled with them and time pops out as a property.
Question 1: Is my impression correct? (If not, correct it.) Question 2: Is it possible to measure both as a pair (keeping the god-like observer state) then measure only one of them afterward to get the time difference between the two? Or does the initial measure after the experiment is over re-entangle us? What happens if we measure that second time?
Another question for someone to answer: What about ozone discharge? My wife and I get headaches from the laser printers so we went back to inkjets in our home office. (She used to print out 100 - 200 pages at a time even with a window open, the office stank for quite a while.) It looks like people like Brother (B&W) lasers and Kyocera lasers are the favorites here. Anyone have anything to say about the ozone pollution these things throw out? Or how to get lasers with minimal ozone discharge?
I'm an American living in Germany. V for Vendetta is not only correct, but the few people I have spoken to have their fingers in their ears. They complained more about the Americans' secret surveillance watching them rather than about the secret surveillance of the German government watching them. At least they agreed when I politely told them that they should tell their government to stop allowing the Americans to spy on them. They are their own country and didn't have to bow to American whims.
Unfortunately, I have not been able to go in depth into these types of conversations. (My German is not the greatest.) The only German person who went into depth into this topic spoke English and they didn't want to hear how that the we (modern day Germany and America) are spying in ways that would make the Stasi jizz in their pants. This person could not face that kind of reality and I suspect there are many, many others like them.
Don't know about grandparent, but I have a modern full-sized keyboard with a sleep button. I still use it... but only because I popped off that particular key. I don't know why they thought it was a good idea to do that.
I'd prefer a way to unerase the stuff I did as a minor. There's some info I once had on MySpace that I'd kinda like back, but apparently they wiped all of that... :(
Dude. You're a little behind the times. Blink tags don't work anymore.
Weird Al, is that you?
Or perhaps it was meant to be funny, but not really a joke at all. If he truly was asked to put a back door in, "they" would certainly not want him to say anything about it. At this point, he can honestly tell them they he did not violate whatever they wanted him to do. He can tell them it was simply a joke and point to many people (like here in Slashdot) who interpreted it as a joke. The tin-foil hat crowd, however, understood correctly.
Was it a joke or was it a nod and wink? We may never know, but he gave a great answer in either case. It will keep everyone on their toes... which is exactly what we should be doing anyway.
Her name is Barbara Shipman and here is a down to earth article about the whole thing. She's easy to google if you want more info about her. She was raised around bees and studied mathematics. One day, as she studied the math, she recognized the two dimensional projection of a 6-D "flag manifold". (I'm not a mathematician. I have no idea what that is or even if I'm using the term right.)
I kept this article because it is an easy article to give to young girls that they can understand. I use it (along with other examples) to encourage them to go into the field of mathematics or traditionally male-oriented fields.
It's trolling when the party seeking to enforce their patent rights has no intention of selling an actual working implementation on the open market.
Yup. This is why when revising the patent system (or copyright system as well), there needs to be a place where people or businesses can license the use of the patent (or copyright). No one is denied the ability to pay for and use it. The price is the same across the board for every company or person. Hoarding the intellectual property should be absolutely impossible.
A few others (this story, different thread) also pointed out that bad patents are granted too easily. Yeah. That absolutely needs to end too.
As an American living in a foreign country, I definitely don't agree.