At least quantum theory is deterministic (I've never seen some randomness in an evolution operator). Just some kinds of measurements cannot be predicted in a deterministic way, which is not surprising since the measurement aparatus is not described by quantum theory.
To be precise, if you start with pure states, you will always get pure states, but if you start with a mixed state, you will always get mixed state. Randomnes seems to be conserved. You get randomnes, if you start out with a random setup.
I admit, this might be a controversial point of view, but i am convinced. Of course quantum theory allows some freedom of interpretation. I am interested in discussion of this question.
Pressure, acceleration, and force are mutually different. The term "G-force" is nonsense.
Limiting the acceleration to 5.6g is not too restrictive. I tried it once and never want to get on a 5g coaster again.
Limiting the acceleration is wise, while, of course, acceleration is not the only problem. Personally, e.g., i hate coasters where the acceleration of my head differs much from the acceleration of my feet.
When I started my home network and needed just a single cable (20m crossover was not available crimped at stores) i decided to save the cost of a crimp tool. I found out that you can crimp a plug with a thin flat screw driver easily. Failure rate: 0%.
If it was a gift from the Egypt government, you are right in that it's not plunder, of course. I am sorry for my mistake. I chose obelisk as an example, obviosly a bad example as you pointed out. I have to admit, that i don't know how many artefacts in european or american museums actually are plunder, if any, which does not effect the main point of my post.
I think the analogy to FAT does not go very far. At least for the usual use of harddisks it's this way: if you overwirte it (with/dev/random, f.i.), it's gone. I remember when a friend found out about undelete and wanted to show me how great it works and that he can save more data on his hardisk that way.. luckily he just chose autoxec.bat for his demonstration (we were about 13 then).
I think marking a file as deleted is just like removing the label from a tape. The interesting part is, to recover the data, after it has been overwritten.
The Egypt government has to decide who may do the excavations and what will become of everything they find. An archeologist may not sell the sarcophagus for his own profit. Of course the Egyptian obelisks found all over Europe are plunder, maybe plundered by archeologist, maybe by militaries. The point is not, who finds it, but who it belongs to. A plunderer is a kind of thief.
Not all archeologists are white. There are Egyptian archeologists working for Egypt's government. I can understand resentments against archeology, but this is about a sarcophagus found recently by Egypt archeologists. Egypt is not a colony anymore. What's the problem?
I don't care who uses IE. It's just that i don't want to be forced to use IE.
To avoid the web using proprietary formats, all we need to do is, to keep public awareness of the browser war. We don't need to win the war for Mozilla. We just have to remind content providers, that they may not decide the war.
For this aim, I see a good future. The amount of word documents offered to me as single choice is decreasing and the local online newspaper is fully mozilla compatible.
Teleportation needs the transportation of particles and a channel for classical information. So, for teleporting 1 photon, you will need 2 fibre cables.
Quantum teleportation is not new. It has been done and published 1997 [Nature vol.390, 11 Dec 1997, pp.575] by Weinfurter & Zeilinger. The experiment was in Innsbruck, Austria (which is not a typo of Australia). The website contains interesting details on the experiment.
The space.com article looks almost like a hoax. Sounds like they copied everything from a marketing pamphlet. I often see articles that discribe what some technology might be used for, and how much better than other technologies, but it never tells you what the damn thing actually does. The AT&T article is better.
The T-Ray frequency might be suitable for computation, so i wonder if it's possible to read in T-Ray holograms in real time without a reference beam (by comparing the phase of the wave not only the intensity).
It sounds like a complement to X-Ray CT and NMR.
Even if the T-Rays passed through everything, there would be still a chance, that the refractive index depends on the medium, which leads to a phase shift.
The idea that there has to be life somewhere else in the universe too, is just based on the image that life is something superior, something special that the universe was just made for. As if it was not fair that only the earth carries life. If we leave our egocentric view and accept that the universe does not care about life, the belief in extraterrestrial life is absurd.
Most cities should have a big sewer system. Here we have it and maybe you know it from "The third man". Recently they use it for the fibre that they need for quantum teleportation. So why have i never heard about the idea of a city wide fibre network inside a sewer network?
If the experiment is really as easy as a crystal radio, why doesn't he wait the two days and publish the theory together with the experimental results?
I can imagine some reasons:
Publishing the theory first and the experiment later, leads to twice as many publications.
People will be less surprised with the findings of the experiment, because they already know the theory. This might support the acceptence of the experiment by the scientific community.
I've misunderstood the thing with the "not much more complicated than a crystal radio."
I simply want to remind you, that mathematics knows other methods than brute force too, which is just to say "I don't know if it can be solved, but you didn't prove anything either"
Nevertheless thank you for your post, it shows how great/sick chess is.
Well, it seems to me like checking the signature of the source is the key (no pun intended). What's bad about compiling the kernel as root? Please lecture. I mean, it's gonna be the kernel anyway. I am more afraid about closed source kernel modules.
On the other hand, if one of my distro's package maintainers gets infected by a smart virus, we all lose. Even antivirus software cannot protect well against it, it just helps recovering.
I use GNU/Linux and all of the important to useful software is free software and already portable to many other architectures. I think moving to a 64bit architecture sounds a nice plan over the next yeears. I expect that Linux and the gcc will support IA64 as well as x86-64 anyway, so what does the move to IA64 cost more than:
installing a new version of gcc
recompiling my software
I don't know much about processor design, so please correct me, but i think IA32 compatibility is only interesting for those who use closed source software, that is not maintained anymore, and is just a needless load for others.
I want to recommend the Movie Tokyo Eyes to you. The story will remind you of your experience, as your post reminds me of the movie, and finally Hinano Yoshikawa is cute, although i would not suggest her as a substitute to Natalie or even Jar Jar Portman. Anyway, Padme is married to Anakin.. so who will be the lovely princess in Episode III?
In countries that have national phone companies, you can often hear people lamenting about it and suggesting if it were private, everything would be better. Sure, some things would, but it's interesting to see that the "free market" can fail too.
I think the little South Park quote was nice, but your statement is inadequate and a kind of racism.
You should not deny that people change with time. Germany has changed a lot, as I hope the USA have changed a lot since 1945, too, although they were not destroyed in a war. We have learned our lesson.
The article does not explain how microbes can control clouds, it just gives an idea of why they would "want" to do that. The question whether it is possible or not, seems to be denied in favor of faith to the putative omnipotence and wisdom of the evolution. For me, as a physicist, causa finalis (i.e. the intention) is the least interesting of the 4 causae.
As you pointed out correctly many species have an important influence on the planet. I guess in most cases the influence of a specific species on it's environment is rather counterproductive to it's survival. E.g. animals eating up their food ressources, plants producing too much oxygen... However they have survived (if they have survived), because their influence was not yet strong enough or it was compensated by other species.
Soon i noticed, that G-Force is not GeForce...and right after that i was wondering if somebody could really aim to limit the gravitation. But since they tried to change $\pi$ to 4, too...
Why G-Force? Isn't it called acceleration?
When talking about mass next time, i will call it the kg-Force. (Of course -- as everybody knows -- RAM is called MB-Force.)
Free, unencumbered and open communication are the hallmarks of any society that hopes to better itself. Restricting communication to those who can afford to pay for a read/write access device, such as MS Word or Corel Wordperfect or whatever, is an inefficiency, pure and simple.
Let's be careful not to argue too much with the "free beer" aspect. I think it will be easier to convince my government to use open formats if I point out that exclusive use of proprietary formats in public communication is a distortion of competition. (For example offering a form on a goverment web-site only in msword format, forces consumers to by a specific product.)
In europe conservatives and economic liberalists -- both of them often allied -- tend to dislike free beer.
prohibiting the use of "devices that have an antenna" in trains same as in airplanes.
I saw some japanese trains where the use of mobile phones was prohibited. Let's do some lobbying for it all over the world. It works against smoking so why not against radiating.
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At least quantum theory is deterministic (I've never seen some randomness in an evolution operator). Just some kinds of measurements cannot be predicted in a deterministic way, which is not surprising since the measurement aparatus is not described by quantum theory.
To be precise, if you start with pure states, you will always get pure states, but if you start with a mixed state, you will always get mixed state. Randomnes seems to be conserved. You get randomnes, if you start out with a random setup.
I admit, this might be a controversial point of view, but i am convinced. Of course quantum theory allows some freedom of interpretation. I am interested in discussion of this question.
What is truely random in a deterministic universe? Is it enough that we cannot predict it?
For computing purposes the number you get by counting photons seem to be random enough however.
Pressure, acceleration, and force are mutually different. The term "G-force" is nonsense.
Limiting the acceleration to 5.6g is not too restrictive. I tried it once and never want to get on a 5g coaster again. Limiting the acceleration is wise, while, of course, acceleration is not the only problem. Personally, e.g., i hate coasters where the acceleration of my head differs much from the acceleration of my feet.
Did someone forget to pay the upgrade? I just hope the company does not cease support for earth.
When I started my home network and needed just a single cable (20m crossover was not available crimped at stores) i decided to save the cost of a crimp tool. I found out that you can crimp a plug with a thin flat screw driver easily. Failure rate: 0%.
If it was a gift from the Egypt government, you are right in that it's not plunder, of course. I am sorry for my mistake. I chose obelisk as an example, obviosly a bad example as you pointed out. I have to admit, that i don't know how many artefacts in european or american museums actually are plunder, if any, which does not effect the main point of my post.
Thanks for the correction
I think the analogy to FAT does not go very far. At least for the usual use of harddisks it's this way: if you overwirte it (with /dev/random, f.i.), it's gone. I remember when a friend found out about undelete and wanted to show me how great it works and that he can save more data on his hardisk that way.. luckily he just chose autoxec.bat for his demonstration (we were about 13 then).
I think marking a file as deleted is just like removing the label from a tape. The interesting part is, to recover the data, after it has been overwritten.
The Egypt government has to decide who may do the excavations and what will become of everything they find. An archeologist may not sell the sarcophagus for his own profit. Of course the Egyptian obelisks found all over Europe are plunder, maybe plundered by archeologist, maybe by militaries. The point is not, who finds it, but who it belongs to. A plunderer is a kind of thief.
Not all archeologists are white. There are Egyptian archeologists working for Egypt's government. I can understand resentments against archeology, but this is about a sarcophagus found recently by Egypt archeologists. Egypt is not a colony anymore. What's the problem?
I don't care who uses IE. It's just that i don't want to be forced to use IE.
To avoid the web using proprietary formats, all we need to do is, to keep public awareness of the browser war. We don't need to win the war for Mozilla. We just have to remind content providers, that they may not decide the war.
For this aim, I see a good future. The amount of word documents offered to me as single choice is decreasing and the local online newspaper is fully mozilla compatible.
Teleportation needs the transportation of particles and a channel for classical information. So, for teleporting 1 photon, you will need 2 fibre cables.
What does "propagation time but hell" mean?
Quantum teleportation is not new. It has been done and published 1997 [Nature vol.390, 11 Dec 1997, pp.575] by Weinfurter & Zeilinger. The experiment was in Innsbruck, Austria (which is not a typo of Australia). The website contains interesting details on the experiment.
Thank you for the Koan!
The space.com article looks almost like a hoax. Sounds like they copied everything from a marketing pamphlet. I often see articles that discribe what some technology might be used for, and how much better than other technologies, but it never tells you what the damn thing actually does. The AT&T article is better.
The T-Ray frequency might be suitable for computation, so i wonder if it's possible to read in T-Ray holograms in real time without a reference beam (by comparing the phase of the wave not only the intensity). It sounds like a complement to X-Ray CT and NMR.
Even if the T-Rays passed through everything, there would be still a chance, that the refractive index depends on the medium, which leads to a phase shift.
On the other hand, my uncle said:
I completely agree with both, Spock and my uncle.
Most cities should have a big sewer system. Here we have it and maybe you know it from "The third man". Recently they use it for the fibre that they need for quantum teleportation. So why have i never heard about the idea of a city wide fibre network inside a sewer network?
If the experiment is really as easy as a crystal radio, why doesn't he wait the two days and publish the theory together with the experimental results?
I can imagine some reasons:
- Publishing the theory first and the experiment later, leads to twice as many publications.
- People will be less surprised with the findings of the experiment, because they already know the theory. This might support the acceptence of the experiment by the scientific community.
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I've misunderstood the thing with the "not much more complicated than a crystal radio."
I suppose 3 is the most probable reason.I simply want to remind you, that mathematics knows other methods than brute force too, which is just to say "I don't know if it can be solved, but you didn't prove anything either"
Nevertheless thank you for your post, it shows how great/sick chess is.
Well, it seems to me like checking the signature of the source is the key (no pun intended). What's bad about compiling the kernel as root? Please lecture. I mean, it's gonna be the kernel anyway. I am more afraid about closed source kernel modules.
On the other hand, if one of my distro's package maintainers gets infected by a smart virus, we all lose. Even antivirus software cannot protect well against it, it just helps recovering.
I use GNU/Linux and all of the important to useful software is free software and already portable to many other architectures. I think moving to a 64bit architecture sounds a nice plan over the next yeears. I expect that Linux and the gcc will support IA64 as well as x86-64 anyway, so what does the move to IA64 cost more than:
I don't know much about processor design, so please correct me, but i think IA32 compatibility is only interesting for those who use closed source software, that is not maintained anymore, and is just a needless load for others.
I want to recommend the Movie Tokyo Eyes to you. The story will remind you of your experience, as your post reminds me of the movie, and finally Hinano Yoshikawa is cute, although i would not suggest her as a substitute to Natalie or even Jar Jar Portman. Anyway, Padme is married to Anakin.. so who will be the lovely princess in Episode III?
In countries that have national phone companies, you can often hear people lamenting about it and suggesting if it were private, everything would be better. Sure, some things would, but it's interesting to see that the "free market" can fail too.
I think the little South Park quote was nice, but your statement is inadequate and a kind of racism.
You should not deny that people change with time. Germany has changed a lot, as I hope the USA have changed a lot since 1945, too, although they were not destroyed in a war. We have learned our lesson.
The article does not explain how microbes can control clouds, it just gives an idea of why they would "want" to do that. The question whether it is possible or not, seems to be denied in favor of faith to the putative omnipotence and wisdom of the evolution. For me, as a physicist, causa finalis (i.e. the intention) is the least interesting of the 4 causae.
As you pointed out correctly many species have an important influence on the planet. I guess in most cases the influence of a specific species on it's environment is rather counterproductive to it's survival. E.g. animals eating up their food ressources, plants producing too much oxygen... However they have survived (if they have survived), because their influence was not yet strong enough or it was compensated by other species.
Soon i noticed, that G-Force is not GeForce...and right after that i was wondering if somebody could really aim to limit the gravitation. But since they tried to change $\pi$ to 4, too...
Why G-Force? Isn't it called acceleration? When talking about mass next time, i will call it the kg-Force. (Of course -- as everybody knows -- RAM is called MB-Force.)
Let's be careful not to argue too much with the "free beer" aspect. I think it will be easier to convince my government to use open formats if I point out that exclusive use of proprietary formats in public communication is a distortion of competition. (For example offering a form on a goverment web-site only in msword format, forces consumers to by a specific product.) In europe conservatives and economic liberalists -- both of them often allied -- tend to dislike free beer.
prohibiting the use of "devices that have an antenna" in trains same as in airplanes. I saw some japanese trains where the use of mobile phones was prohibited. Let's do some lobbying for it all over the world. It works against smoking so why not against radiating.