I have to whole-heartedly agree with this post. My experience with RP on Linux has been nothing but good. Installation was, like, 3 clicks. The player doesn't slow down any of my other programs and disappears completely when I'm done with it.
If I recall correctly there are a few problems with this method of transmission:
1. Once you transmit using a particular electron pair you can't use that pair again, so you have to pre-prepair as many electron pairs as you think you will need for a transmission.
2. Creating perfectly isolated pairs is difficult. The basic problem is making sure the pairs you create aren't entangled with any other qubits (and using extra bits to do error correction because its next to impossible produce pure states) People are working on efficient ways to do this, but although it won't be prohibitive for, say, prearranged data transmission it really wouldn't be economical for circuits.
This article is talking about something else aparently: some kind of wave of spin -- like a current. (BTW in the method you're talking about one doesn't exactly "change the spin"... its a bit more complicated than that.)
The proposed bill actually says, "without the copyright holders permission"... so no, if you provide your works then presumably you are doing so with your own permission:)
thats being ignored in this discussion so far (at least I haven't seen it in any of the highly moderated posts) and that is the difference between "guilt" and "accountability". Guilt or shame is something that most Christians I know would discourage, because it is self-dustructive. There's no use in obsessing over your sin. Even so, if we are honest with ourselves, we realise that each of us ar flawed (i.e. we have room for improvement, we have "fallen short" of the perfect mark). And that is perfectly reasonable because we are all human after all, but do we kick back and say, "well that's life" or do we strive for something better?
Accountability is not about guilt. Its almost the opposite, as a matter of fact, because guilt makes people hide -- accountability is about finding someone you can trust who will be your confident so you don't have to hide anymore. You can have someone, a real live human -- better if its someone you know well, not just a box or a screen or a program with some mysterious listener bihind -- who can share your struggle and help encourage to strive for that something better.
It is very painful for me to read some of these posts that say, "if you don't like it then just stop" because its just not that easy. And then they say, well if you can't stop then just accept that its ok. To which I must say for extended periods I pretty much did accept it as ok and the result was a life-wasting habit that ate up to 7 hours of each day (almost as bad as slashdot). To which they reply, "well you have to learn self-control buddy". But ask every person I know, self-control is not one of my major flaws in any other area. And porn was never a problem for me until I crossed that threshold a year ago. I can only say, from experience mind you -- not because some preacher said so, or because my mammy made a face when billy used a word when I was five -- that for me this is something I want to rid myself of, that this is not something I can do myself, and that methods like this help immensly if they are done right. Accountability is about building positive relationships and that, I think, is the intent of this program.
"Mr Levy said it reduced the number of taps needed to form Japanese characters from eight to two. Now, Digit Wireless is working on a keyboard for Chinese."
I don't know chinese, but I know there's thousands of characters. Anybody have any ideas how they could pull this off?
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I have to whole-heartedly agree with this post. My experience with RP on Linux has been nothing but good. Installation was, like, 3 clicks. The player doesn't slow down any of my other programs and disappears completely when I'm done with it.
If I recall correctly there are a few problems with this method of transmission:
... its a bit more complicated than that.)
1. Once you transmit using a particular electron pair you can't use that pair again, so you have to pre-prepair as many electron pairs as you think you will need for a transmission.
2. Creating perfectly isolated pairs is difficult. The basic problem is making sure the pairs you create aren't entangled with any other qubits (and using extra bits to do error correction because its next to impossible produce pure states) People are working on efficient ways to do this, but although it won't be prohibitive for, say, prearranged data transmission it really wouldn't be economical for circuits.
This article is talking about something else aparently: some kind of wave of spin -- like a current.
(BTW in the method you're talking about one doesn't exactly "change the spin"
The proposed bill actually says, "without the copyright holders permission"... so no, if you provide your works then presumably you are doing so with your own permission :)
thats being ignored in this discussion so far (at least I haven't seen it in any of the highly moderated posts) and that is the difference between "guilt" and "accountability". Guilt or shame is something that most Christians I know would discourage, because it is self-dustructive. There's no use in obsessing over your sin. Even so, if we are honest with ourselves, we realise that each of us ar flawed (i.e. we have room for improvement, we have "fallen short" of the perfect mark). And that is perfectly reasonable because we are all human after all, but do we kick back and say, "well that's life" or do we strive for something better?
Accountability is not about guilt. Its almost the opposite, as a matter of fact, because guilt makes people hide -- accountability is about finding someone you can trust who will be your confident so you don't have to hide anymore. You can have someone, a real live human -- better if its someone you know well, not just a box or a screen or a program with some mysterious listener bihind -- who can share your struggle and help encourage to strive for that something better.
It is very painful for me to read some of these posts that say, "if you don't like it then just stop" because its just not that easy. And then they say, well if you can't stop then just accept that its ok. To which I must say for extended periods I pretty much did accept it as ok and the result was a life-wasting habit that ate up to 7 hours of each day (almost as bad as slashdot). To which they reply, "well you have to learn self-control buddy". But ask every person I know, self-control is not one of my major flaws in any other area. And porn was never a problem for me until I crossed that threshold a year ago. I can only say, from experience mind you -- not because some preacher said so, or because my mammy made a face when billy used a word when I was five -- that for me this is something I want to rid myself of, that this is not something I can do myself, and that methods like this help immensly if they are done right. Accountability is about building positive relationships and that, I think, is the intent of this program.
"Mr Levy said it reduced the number of taps needed to form Japanese characters from eight to two. Now, Digit Wireless is working on a keyboard for Chinese."
I don't know chinese, but I know there's thousands of characters. Anybody have any ideas how they could pull this off?