He's basically created a "transistor" that allows through only electrons of a particular spin. What, you mean, like, say... a magnetic field? *grin* Seriously though, for those who aren't really familiar with spin, theres a decent quick-and-dirty spin primer here, which includes a bit of details on the stern-gerlach experiment, which shows one way one might select electrons of only a certain spin.
I sometimes think that digital devices are a lot less deterministic than we think they are.
Whether they are deterministic isn't the issue - it's whether they are well behaved. By its very definition, Chaos is completely deterministic. However, it is also exponentially sensitive to initial conditions. So, while the system is deterministic, it becomes very difficult to predict outcomes because tiny measurement errors can propagate very quickly to give totally different final resuts.
If you had said "Newton, Galileo, Kepler, Dirac, Faraday, Planck, Kelvin, Maxwell and Einstein ate beef. So do I" would there bave been any objection? It seems to me that you are just saying that you all eat beef.
Ok, let me explain. On the old Cream of Wheat box, there's a picture of a man. In that picture, that man is holding a Cream of Wheat box, which of course has a picture of a man on it, holding a box of delicious Cream of Wheat. Rinse. Lather. Repeat. Infinite recursion at it's finest!
I'm just going to assume this guy is a troll... I like to think registerd/. readers aren't THIS stupid. Good one though, almost had me going there for a minute.
If you bothered to RTFA, you'd see that the "government" was formed primarily as a way to help protect new players from getting suckered by scam artists. They aren't trying to graft "real world" rules into the game - they are trying to keep people from pissing off all the new players and making them quit. It's the same reason a lot of guilds are formed in other MMORPGs.
The wave is nice, and I own one, as well as a Shrade ToughTool, Sog PowerGrip, Leatherman PSTII, Victornox SwissTool, Spyderco Spydergrip, etc etc etc... However the best tool, hands down, IMHO, is the Gerber Legend. This has all the convenience of the wave, with outside-opening tools, plus a better locking system, removable, replacable tungsten-carbide cutters, a better phillips screwdriver... and probably the best part, spring loaded pliers. Not only that, the fit and finish of this tool is very high quality. For your money I have yet to find a multi-tool that comes anywhere close to a Gerber Legend.
The new 5.8 GHz phones have worked really well in my experience. The lack of microwave interference makes them a nice alternative to 2.4. And, as a previous poster mentioned, the panasonic phones seem pretty solid.
Ignoring for a second any consideration about usage of the term jock, let's look at your meathead interpretation of the word and see if we see that in gamers.
Jocks engage in machismo prick-waving to show their superior manhood. Geeks do the same thing. Replace "I can bench more than you" with "I have more RAM than you" and you get the same effect.
If you REALLY wanna see a good example of this, play an online RPG like everquest or drakkar. Suddenly "My big brother is a football player and will beat you up because I don't like you" becomes "My brother is a level 37 fighter and can oneshot you!" It's a well-proven scientific fact that 99.7 percent of all human beings are assholes. While the percentage may be slightly less among us geeks (99.4%), it still holds true. Put an asshole in a situation where he has power over people, and he's gonna bully, he's gonna flex, he's gonna wave his penis at you, and he's gonna try to make himself feel big at your expense. Call it a jock, call it an evil boss, call it George W. Bush, it doesn't matter. An asshole in power is gonna use those not in power as his own personal punching bag.
In the brief meeting I had to discuss the setup on one occasion, it seemed as if the eventual plan was an automagic alignment setup. I believe for the time being they are still using manual adjustments, although I am not sure. I haven't really talked to anyone involved with the project directly in several months. I work in the computational group, not visualization. There was another/. poster elsewhere in this discussion who also works at princeton, and he seems to be directly involved with the project. Perhaps you should ask him
We have the same thing here at PPPL(princeton plasma physics lab). We call it the "high resolution wall." Big whoop. It's a pile of projectors each creating a chunk of the screen. The software isn't the difficult part... the practical difficulty is getting all the images from the projectors to line up. We have several interns working on this at the moment. This is hardly news, as systems like this have been around for quite some time.
I work at princeton plasma physics laboratory in the computational plasma physics group. Politics have jack shit to do with why we don't have fusion working. The fact that plasmas are goddamned hard to model and understand and maintain stably ARE why we haven't gotten fusion energy yet. We get PILES of USDOE funding every year and pour it into more and more innovative research. No one is standing out picketing plasma research labs because anyone with a tenth of an IQ point knows that fusion is clean and safe, unlike fission. In summary: pull your foot out of your mouth and your head out of your ass, and talk about something you know.
wrong, wrong, and WRONG. X10 is a standard. There are many companies which manufacture products which comply with said standard. X10.com just happened to be the first to register the website. They are far from the only manufacturer of X10 Products. In fact, I have found some models of switches and appliance modules to be far superior when they come from other companies. X10.com's stuff sometimes seems kinda cheezy and cheaply made
so, there will always be new pr0n sites to surf. If The Hun closes it's doors I always have Sublime Directory to fall back on. To answer the inevitable question, no I don't have anything to do with these sites. Yes, I do look at pr0n. I'm a geek. Deal.
I realize that Ford had the tire problem. I thought a bit of play on the theme would be ok for a (albeit bad) joke. I quite happily drive a dodge ram pickup and it serves me well. Lighten up and pull that banana out of your tailpipe. And I ain't talkin bout your charger either.
Sure it does... you have to dodge the car when its crappy tires give out and it goes careening off the road into your front yard while you are mowing the lawn
I think your statements on music are good, but the movie one is kinda only half right. The majority of the big movie dollars is in the theater sales, not the home movies. Actors in a straight-to-video movie hardly make tens of millions of dollars for their performances.
I'm not arguing with the applications to this specific case, but to the blanket statement the parent poster made. There's enough general incorrect beliefs about copyright law out there.
I agree with you wholeheartedly that the students have every right (in THIS university's case) to GPL their stuff, but in general that may not always be true.
Also, a correction to my own post above, only the copyright holder can change the license OR grant permission to do so. i.e. the BSD style licenses.
Not true. Only the copyright holder can do that. Many universities require that they become sole owner of submitted works, especially with theses and the like. While the professor himself couldn't GPL the code in such a case, he could certainly lobby the presiding body of the university (ie, board of trustees or the like) to do so.
legitimacy of students GPLing their submitted programs
The teacher is asking if it's legal for the students to GPL their own submitted works, because by submitting the works as a class project the students grant certain rights to the university. And even if it were the situation of which you speak, the very act of handing in the assignment is a granting of permission, under most schools' policies.
Next time, read the article twice instead of gunning for the first post.
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Pushing is the answer. The humans must be pushed. They must go down the stairs.
He's basically created a "transistor" that allows through only electrons of a particular spin.
What, you mean, like, say... a magnetic field? *grin* Seriously though, for those who aren't really familiar with spin, theres a decent quick-and-dirty spin primer here, which includes a bit of details on the stern-gerlach experiment, which shows one way one might select electrons of only a certain spin.
I sometimes think that digital devices are a lot less deterministic than we think they are.
Whether they are deterministic isn't the issue - it's whether they are well behaved. By its very definition, Chaos is completely deterministic. However, it is also exponentially sensitive to initial conditions. So, while the system is deterministic, it becomes very difficult to predict outcomes because tiny measurement errors can propagate very quickly to give totally different final resuts.
You're just jealous that you don't have huge balls
If you had said "Newton, Galileo, Kepler, Dirac, Faraday, Planck, Kelvin, Maxwell and Einstein ate beef. So do I" would there bave been any objection? It seems to me that you are just saying that you all eat beef.
I bet the vegetarians might have gotten pissy over this - but to them I say For every animal you don't eat, I'm going to eat three
Infinity easily explained in one phrase:
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The Cream of Wheat box.
Ok, let me explain. On the old Cream of Wheat box, there's a picture of a man. In that picture, that man is holding a Cream of Wheat box, which of course has a picture of a man on it, holding a box of delicious Cream of Wheat. Rinse. Lather. Repeat. Infinite recursion at it's finest!
I'm just going to assume this guy is a troll... I like to think registerd /. readers aren't THIS stupid. Good one though, almost had me going there for a minute.
If you bothered to RTFA, you'd see that the "government" was formed primarily as a way to help protect new players from getting suckered by scam artists. They aren't trying to graft "real world" rules into the game - they are trying to keep people from pissing off all the new players and making them quit. It's the same reason a lot of guilds are formed in other MMORPGs.
The wave is nice, and I own one, as well as a Shrade ToughTool, Sog PowerGrip, Leatherman PSTII, Victornox SwissTool, Spyderco Spydergrip, etc etc etc... However the best tool, hands down, IMHO, is the Gerber Legend. This has all the convenience of the wave, with outside-opening tools, plus a better locking system, removable, replacable tungsten-carbide cutters, a better phillips screwdriver... and probably the best part, spring loaded pliers. Not only that, the fit and finish of this tool is very high quality. For your money I have yet to find a multi-tool that comes anywhere close to a Gerber Legend.
The new 5.8 GHz phones have worked really well in my experience. The lack of microwave interference makes them a nice alternative to 2.4. And, as a previous poster mentioned, the panasonic phones seem pretty solid.
Ignoring for a second any consideration about usage of the term jock, let's look at your meathead interpretation of the word and see if we see that in gamers.
Jocks engage in machismo prick-waving to show their superior manhood. Geeks do the same thing. Replace "I can bench more than you" with "I have more RAM than you" and you get the same effect.
If you REALLY wanna see a good example of this, play an online RPG like everquest or drakkar. Suddenly "My big brother is a football player and will beat you up because I don't like you" becomes "My brother is a level 37 fighter and can oneshot you!" It's a well-proven scientific fact that 99.7 percent of all human beings are assholes. While the percentage may be slightly less among us geeks (99.4%), it still holds true. Put an asshole in a situation where he has power over people, and he's gonna bully, he's gonna flex, he's gonna wave his penis at you, and he's gonna try to make himself feel big at your expense. Call it a jock, call it an evil boss, call it George W. Bush, it doesn't matter. An asshole in power is gonna use those not in power as his own personal punching bag.
In the brief meeting I had to discuss the setup on one occasion, it seemed as if the eventual plan was an automagic alignment setup. I believe for the time being they are still using manual adjustments, although I am not sure. I haven't really talked to anyone involved with the project directly in several months. I work in the computational group, not visualization. There was another /. poster elsewhere in this discussion who also works at princeton, and he seems to be directly involved with the project. Perhaps you should ask him
heh i work right up the hall from you, in the computational group. :)
We have the same thing here at PPPL(princeton plasma physics lab). We call it the "high resolution wall." Big whoop. It's a pile of projectors each creating a chunk of the screen. The software isn't the difficult part... the practical difficulty is getting all the images from the projectors to line up. We have several interns working on this at the moment. This is hardly news, as systems like this have been around for quite some time.
I work at princeton plasma physics laboratory in the computational plasma physics group. Politics have jack shit to do with why we don't have fusion working. The fact that plasmas are goddamned hard to model and understand and maintain stably ARE why we haven't gotten fusion energy yet. We get PILES of USDOE funding every year and pour it into more and more innovative research. No one is standing out picketing plasma research labs because anyone with a tenth of an IQ point knows that fusion is clean and safe, unlike fission. In summary: pull your foot out of your mouth and your head out of your ass, and talk about something you know.
wrong, wrong, and WRONG. X10 is a standard. There are many companies which manufacture products which comply with said standard. X10.com just happened to be the first to register the website. They are far from the only manufacturer of X10 Products. In fact, I have found some models of switches and appliance modules to be far superior when they come from other companies. X10.com's stuff sometimes seems kinda cheezy and cheaply made
so, there will always be new pr0n sites to surf. If The Hun closes it's doors I always have Sublime Directory to fall back on. To answer the inevitable question, no I don't have anything to do with these sites. Yes, I do look at pr0n. I'm a geek. Deal.
call me stupid, but i still don't get it
I realize that Ford had the tire problem. I thought a bit of play on the theme would be ok for a (albeit bad) joke. I quite happily drive a dodge ram pickup and it serves me well. Lighten up and pull that banana out of your tailpipe. And I ain't talkin bout your charger either.
Sure it does... you have to dodge the car when its crappy tires give out and it goes careening off the road into your front yard while you are mowing the lawn
I think your statements on music are good, but the movie one is kinda only half right. The majority of the big movie dollars is in the theater sales, not the home movies. Actors in a straight-to-video movie hardly make tens of millions of dollars for their performances.
I'm not arguing with the applications to this specific case, but to the blanket statement the parent poster made. There's enough general incorrect beliefs about copyright law out there.
I agree with you wholeheartedly that the students have every right (in THIS university's case) to GPL their stuff, but in general that may not always be true.
Also, a correction to my own post above, only the copyright holder can change the license OR grant permission to do so. i.e. the BSD style licenses.
only the author can do that!
Not true. Only the copyright holder can do that. Many universities require that they become sole owner of submitted works, especially with theses and the like. While the professor himself couldn't GPL the code in such a case, he could certainly lobby the presiding body of the university (ie, board of trustees or the like) to do so.
legitimacy of students GPLing their submitted programs
The teacher is asking if it's legal for the students to GPL their own submitted works, because by submitting the works as a class project the students grant certain rights to the university. And even if it were the situation of which you speak, the very act of handing in the assignment is a granting of permission, under most schools' policies.
Next time, read the article twice instead of gunning for the first post.
I just want video toaster back so I can have kiki again. I haven't seen her since high school