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is very funny. The video is nicer, but streaming windows media player is hard to copy. It's an explaination from the IBM guy who invented ctrl-alt-delete explaing why he invented it. The setting is what looks like a tv news interview show. Bill Gates is there too.
You'll have to rename the file to mp3. It's easier to download stuff from prohosting if the server doesn't recognize it. You understand.:-)
Which he metioned as an option, but as he said, it's slower and has security issues.
As for your question, if you're looking to set up a small wireless network for your home, fed from DSL or cable, I hear Linksys has some pretty good products for home based systems at good prices.
Your link says they were levitating things inside a soleniod with a magnetic field of 16 Tesla. In his abstract he says that the device used only a 1 Tesla field and the object being affected wasn't even within that 1T field at all, only the device was. The differences are enough for me (a non-physicist) to believe that the two phenomena are not the same.
I don't know if it works, I don't have a Win boxes to test it on...
I must have missed the sarcarism or humor there, or something.
The phrase, a Win boxes, is wrong under any variation of english grammar that I've ever seen. Though being the "grammar facist" maybe you know some grammar secret the rest of us dont? Please enlighten. Or maybe that was a poor attempt at sarcasim. I feel silly pointing out something so obvious.
This problem is a lesser form of the clash between capitalist concepts and communist concepts.
The capitalist system protects the right of the individual to own property and to earn money from his propery in a free market, or to invent something and to earn money from that invention in the free market.
It Joe invents a widget then he should make more money from it's commercialization then Bob who just got a copy of the widget plans after the fact. Capitalism solves this issue very simply by giving Joe all rights to anything associated with the widget for whatever use he sees fit in a free market.
Basically, capitalism is designed to protect individual rights of property. This is the core of the patent and copyright system and it is the the basis of western society. This guy is saying that he doesn't think it works properly. I'd tend to agree. If Joe invents something that could have a very major impact on the well being of society as a whole, then having that thing or technology monopolisticly controlled by Joe for use or commercialization at his own discretion, could easily create some problems.
Solving that problem by having the government step in and dictate which type of inventions and "things" (like IP) can't be owned as property and should be avialable to the public, is a communist concept. The americian government won't change it's views on IP or things like patents or the DMCA, because to do so would be contrary to the core concepts of capitalism.
Pure capitalism as the basis for society won't work as well in the next century or two as it has historically, I think.
I would like to see NASA somehow extract the data from the tape (in any form) and post a huge tarball on their website. Let the community try to make heads or tails of it
They already recovered the data by finding paper printouts of it that the original researchers had made.
According to the article they've only processed 30% of the data but he's now "over 90 percent" certain that there was life discovered on mars. This is very cool.
I agree that they should have published thier format but they probably thought that no one would need the tape after they were finished with it. And they did print it out, so they probably thought that was good enough.
It's fundamentally _impossible_ to precisely predict speed and position of a given electron. It's fundamentelly impossible to predict when and in which direction an alpha particle will be emitted from a collapsing atom nucleus.
You mean "fundamentally impossible for us to predict using current technologies".
There's no problem saying "truly random => unpredictable", but the problem with saying "unpredictable => truly random" is that you can never be sure that your frame of reference for defining predicatbility is universal.
We can't precisely predict the speed and position of a given electron, but that doesn't mean it's truly random. It could still be deterministical chaotic, and predictable by some technology and/or physics model that we don't know.
I'm not saying that true randomness doesn't exist, I'm just saying that, if it exists, it's existance is impossible to prove.
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This is very funny. The video is nicer, but streaming windows media player is hard to copy. It's an explaination from the IBM guy who invented ctrl-alt-delete explaing why he invented it. The setting is what looks like a tv news interview show. Bill Gates is there too.
:-)
You'll have to rename the file to mp3. It's easier to download stuff from prohosting if the server doesn't recognize it. You understand.
Which he metioned as an option, but as he said, it's slower and has security issues.
As for your question, if you're looking to set up a small wireless network for your home, fed from DSL or cable, I hear Linksys has some pretty good products for home based systems at good prices.
Your link says they were levitating things inside a soleniod with a magnetic field of 16 Tesla. In his abstract he says that the device used only a 1 Tesla field and the object being affected wasn't even within that 1T field at all, only the device was. The differences are enough for me (a non-physicist) to believe that the two phenomena are not the same.
I don't know if it works, I don't have a Win boxes to test it on...
I must have missed the sarcarism or humor there, or something.
The phrase, a Win boxes, is wrong under any variation of english grammar that I've ever seen. Though being the "grammar facist" maybe you know some grammar secret the rest of us dont? Please enlighten. Or maybe that was a poor attempt at sarcasim. I feel silly pointing out something so obvious.
This problem is a lesser form of the clash between capitalist concepts and communist concepts.
The capitalist system protects the right of the individual to own property and to earn money from his propery in a free market, or to invent something and to earn money from that invention in the free market.
It Joe invents a widget then he should make more money from it's commercialization then Bob who just got a copy of the widget plans after the fact. Capitalism solves this issue very simply by giving Joe all rights to anything associated with the widget for whatever use he sees fit in a free market.
Basically, capitalism is designed to protect individual rights of property. This is the core of the patent and copyright system and it is the the basis of western society. This guy is saying that he doesn't think it works properly. I'd tend to agree. If Joe invents something that could have a very major impact on the well being of society as a whole, then having that thing or technology monopolisticly controlled by Joe for use or commercialization at his own discretion, could easily create some problems.
Solving that problem by having the government step in and dictate which type of inventions and "things" (like IP) can't be owned as property and should be avialable to the public, is a communist concept. The americian government won't change it's views on IP or things like patents or the DMCA, because to do so would be contrary to the core concepts of capitalism.
Pure capitalism as the basis for society won't work as well in the next century or two as it has historically, I think.
I would like to see NASA somehow extract the data from the tape (in any form) and post a huge tarball on their website. Let the community try to make heads or tails of it
They already recovered the data by finding paper printouts of it that the original researchers had made.
According to the article they've only processed 30% of the data but he's now "over 90 percent" certain that there was life discovered on mars. This is very cool.
I agree that they should have published thier format but they probably thought that no one would need the tape after they were finished with it. And they did print it out, so they probably thought that was good enough.
Keep your private key on a floppy! See.. problem solved.
Uhhh.. they still make floppies right??
It's fundamentally _impossible_ to precisely predict speed and position of a given electron. It's fundamentelly impossible to predict when and in which direction an alpha particle will be emitted from a collapsing atom nucleus.
You mean "fundamentally impossible for us to predict using current technologies".
There's no problem saying "truly random => unpredictable", but the problem with saying "unpredictable => truly random" is that you can never be sure that your frame of reference for defining predicatbility is universal.
We can't precisely predict the speed and position of a given electron, but that doesn't mean it's truly random. It could still be deterministical chaotic, and predictable by some technology and/or physics model that we don't know.
I'm not saying that true randomness doesn't exist, I'm just saying that, if it exists, it's existance is impossible to prove.