But so far as I know, the grandparent post wasn't talking about laptops separated by any distance, it was talking about multi-core processors. Having an atomic clock on board (afaik) won't make anything more accurate or improve communications. Any sufficiently fast master clock, no matter how it drifts relative to the rest of the world, or how unstable (within some broadly defined limits) it is compared to itself, say, one day ago, will work to coordinate the cores.
So far as I know, the current state of all very accurate clocks is that they require constant babying, careful cooling, they should not be accelerated, etc. If one could eventually be solid-stated, it would, almost by definition, lose status as an "atomic clock" and simply be an amazingly accurate solid-state clock. Which is fine for your one-time (all-time:) ) encryption scheme. To take true advantage of that accuracy (rather than the current accurate crystal resonators which are so common), you'd have to know where each clock was to the meter, to take into account gravitational potential influences and accelerations (via general relativity), somewhat as the current GPS systems work. Then you kind of lose the whole point of having a mobile computer in the first place.
Well, I guess it's stuck in a superposition state forever, then.
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Happy Pi Day
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If you are going to point out an error, at least take the time to provide an example of the correct grammar.
Grammar has always been a weak-point (no hyphen needed) of mine, so it would have been nice if you had finished your thought (assuming your actual goal was NOT just to point out (split infinitive, but that's forgiveable these days)someone else's mistake so you could look clever without actually being helpful).
Don't make me go all George Costanza and have to tell you who (whom: a tricky case this time) the jerk store just ran out of... (Even sentences which end in ellipsis dots need periods!):)
The hunters arrow creates a hole a few inches in diameter - the hydrogen bomb creates a crater many hundreds of meters in diameter, so a weapon of a few thousand years from now should be able to create a blemish in matter approximately 1000 miles in size, a few thousand years past that and the weapon would make a big hole almost 6 million miles in size. Yay for extrapolation through two points! Apparently, several thousand years ago, hunters' darts could actually *fill up* craters!
Excellent point. Do they have any plans to make sure the "character" will understand and respond properly to a context specific joke? Much of our humor depends on that ++?????++ Out of Cheese Error. Redo From Start.
There are tons of studies to back up that rather obvious claim. Citation?
Every species of cat purrs, both large and small. No other animal on earth purrs. Google "Do lions purr?". First hits say "No." Admittedly, I'm not entirely trustful of those sites, but they give *some* reasoning. Care to back your assertions?
On the other hand, if I said "Next Friday, you're going to find the love of your life" and you don't, that's pretty solid evidence that I'm full of BS. I'm glad to see that. However, an astrologer would say, "Oh, that was the love of your life, you just didn't recognize her (or him)." Or, "Give the relationship a while -- it'll develop."
Agreed, and agreed. On the other hand, you've got to know pretty damned soon that this is probably not the woman you'd want educating your children. So you're just in it for a short fling? Nice.
Interesting, but I can't help but thinking that that post is a bit of philosophical wanking. If the experiment is *not* wrong (few experiments are, though they may not show what the experimenter set out to show, or may be misinterpreted, etc.), what then? God, Newton, and Einstein disappear? That'd be a lark.
Oh and on a more serious note, this rocks cuz I was in high school just 3 year ago and most of the vids we watched were seriously still VHS. Gosh, I'd never have guessed.
I keed, I keed.
Re:Other Media of Related Interest
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Donkey Kong and Me
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Search for "King of Kong" on YouTube. Clips are posted by PicturehouseDF. The second clip is simply named "King Kong", but it's really "King of Kong". Fun documentary.
1. Cusp? What cusp? That's not how the term is used, in either popular language, nor in physics.
2. If I understand "cusp" to mean the location at which an object released from rest will *just* fall to earth, there's no such location. ALL objects will, from any location (given no other mass or energy in the universe, of course).
3. If one allows an initial momentum to your object, then the "cusp" location can be anywhere.
I guess I will make a theory stating that fairies exist... simulate that in a computer, and when fairies appear in my simulation I write an article that I have observed fairies. Mmmmhh, this certainly sounds like proving ID. Sssssssshhhh! Do not give the IDers any ammunition with which to bullshit the public.
Power-law scaling pretty much guarantees cold winters once in a while. One climatic happening is hardly cause to proclaim that humans have little to no effect on the climatic.
Someone who is truly cutting through the "political correct cry baby crap" would say he is "multiracial".
Then everyone is multiracial. There has to be a practical cutoff point, or the term becomes absolutely worthless. (I agree with your original point, however.)
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if that's the kind of crap (even edited incorrectly) they're putting out.
Yes, that's interesting and insightful.
:) ) encryption scheme. To take true advantage of that accuracy (rather than the current accurate crystal resonators which are so common), you'd have to know where each clock was to the meter, to take into account gravitational potential influences and accelerations (via general relativity), somewhat as the current GPS systems work. Then you kind of lose the whole point of having a mobile computer in the first place.
But so far as I know, the grandparent post wasn't talking about laptops separated by any distance, it was talking about multi-core processors. Having an atomic clock on board (afaik) won't make anything more accurate or improve communications. Any sufficiently fast master clock, no matter how it drifts relative to the rest of the world, or how unstable (within some broadly defined limits) it is compared to itself, say, one day ago, will work to coordinate the cores.
So far as I know, the current state of all very accurate clocks is that they require constant babying, careful cooling, they should not be accelerated, etc. If one could eventually be solid-stated, it would, almost by definition, lose status as an "atomic clock" and simply be an amazingly accurate solid-state clock. Which is fine for your one-time (all-time
Well, I guess it's stuck in a superposition state forever, then.
Grammar has always been a weak-point (no hyphen needed) of mine, so it would have been nice if you had finished your thought (assuming your actual goal was NOT just to point out (split infinitive, but that's forgiveable these days)someone else's mistake so you could look clever without actually being helpful).
Don't make me go all George Costanza and have to tell you who (whom: a tricky case this time) the jerk store just ran out of... (Even sentences which end in ellipsis dots need periods!)
It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.
Wikipedia's article on "purr" claims that all cats DO purr, but their link is to an article on cheetahs. Anyone else?
Is that you, Bruce?
Agreed, and agreed. On the other hand, you've got to know pretty damned soon that this is probably not the woman you'd want educating your children. So you're just in it for a short fling? Nice.
Interesting, but I can't help but thinking that that post is a bit of philosophical wanking. If the experiment is *not* wrong (few experiments are, though they may not show what the experimenter set out to show, or may be misinterpreted, etc.), what then? God, Newton, and Einstein disappear? That'd be a lark.
I can't believe I just replied to that.
Your analogy is pretty baroque.
I keed, I keed.
Search for "King of Kong" on YouTube. Clips are posted by PicturehouseDF. The second clip is simply named "King Kong", but it's really "King of Kong". Fun documentary.
I propose finding a way to do away with such crap as "scientometrics".
I sense a Richard Gere joke in there somewhere... as it were.
I'm being pedantic here:
1. Cusp? What cusp? That's not how the term is used, in either popular language, nor in physics.
2. If I understand "cusp" to mean the location at which an object released from rest will *just* fall to earth, there's no such location. ALL objects will, from any location (given no other mass or energy in the universe, of course).
3. If one allows an initial momentum to your object, then the "cusp" location can be anywhere.
Power-law scaling pretty much guarantees cold winters once in a while. One climatic happening is hardly cause to proclaim that humans have little to no effect on the climatic.
Someone who is truly cutting through the "political correct cry baby crap" would say he is "multiracial".
Then everyone is multiracial. There has to be a practical cutoff point, or the term becomes absolutely worthless. (I agree with your original point, however.)