the way it basically works is that say 2 people have an entangled pair of qubits. then person A who wants to send some quantum state to person B measures his qubit which then collapses into some random state. person A, now knows the state of person B's qubit because they are entangled and sends some information to person B (classically, by, say, telephone or whatever) that tells person B what operation to perform on his qubit to turn it into the state that he wanted to send.
so the best this can be used for, as far as i can see, is transmitting a huge amount of information but only having to send very small amount through 'classical' channels.
actually i believe english is one of the easiest languages to learn. i was told that when i was learning english after moving to canada when i was around 12 (russian is my first language). finnish and some asian languages like japanese are suppose to be the hardest to learn.
also, being able to understand a language is much easier than being able to speak it. and speaking without an accent is pretty much impossible for most people without special training if they learned the language after they were 12
i have 0 clue about quantum mechanics etc (comp sci major).
however, would this be possible:
bob tells alice that he will send a signal to her as follows:
at exactly 1 hours, 23 minutes, 33 seconds, 50 milliseconds... (whatever time precision you want to use) bob will change the state of particle A. at 1 hours, 23 minutes, 34 seconds and 50 milliseconds... bob will change the state of particle B. then continue for as many particles as you wish.
if all these changes take place and assuming relatively perfectly synchronized clocks, would that not mean that there is a high probability that bob did, indeed, send a message? also increasing the number of particles and the precision of time would increase the degree of certainty, as far as i can see anyway.
again all i know about quantum physics is popular literature so i have no idea if this is anywhere near the realm of possibility, but im simply curious why it wouldnt (or would) be.
i have 2gb ram, currently it is using 880mb. when i first boot up without running any extra things its uses up about 600mb
as for the rest:
Broken program files menu that doesn't cascade (so you have to know where what you're looking for is before you look for it).
thats not true. it does cascade on the left where it says 'folders' (this is hidable so if you dont see it you need to click "folders" button thing on the bottom left. i mightve changed something in the options to enable this, i dont know.
Font bugs that regularly turn the fonts to unreadable crap requiring a reboot.
havent had this problem...
Running about 50% of available software switches aeroglass off. Sometimes it doesn't come back on without a reboot.
only thing that does this for me is windows media player classic (the one thats distributed with k-lite codec pack). it hasnt failed to come back on yet, though.
S...L...O...W... I mean this is a dual processor 64bit machine and it's slower than the celeron running XP next to it.
i have to agree about slowness. vista feels MUCH slower than xp or server 2003 i had previously.
some other problems:
- i have an ipod. vista has a built in support for ipods. if i leave it plugged in, sometimes it can be nearly impossible to safely 'eject' it. once you go to safely remove hardware and press remove, it freezes for a little while and then opens the ipod disk drive folder as if you just plugged it in. also leaving the ipod plugged in can and will cause blue screens that require a reboot. i havent seen blue screens since windows 98... its strange to see them in vista again.
- because of the new security model (no administrator account), many applications fail to work properly because they run other apps that require admin privileges. the solution to this is find what it is they are trying to run, go into properties and change it to run in admin mode for all accounts (not just yours). this is pretty cryptic and i doubt less technical people will be able to figure this out on their own.
- vista seems to crash and freeze up quite a bit. its nowhere near as stable as win xp was (which wasnt completely stable to begin with)
- from a regular user perspective, i dont really see anything new other than the prettied up gui and huge annoyances due to the new security model (although you can turn it off if you want). it seems like vista is trying really hard to copy everything good that macs have while still remaining windows, but its not really working out too well.
hope george bush is busy finding out which country has the biggest supply of copper so he can start burying weapons of mass destruction in advance to avoid future embarassments!
It's obviously a fictional story and was intended to be one. But he intended for the book to be more than just a story and to actually try to argue an unpopular point. You can see more on his web site.
I never said I believed what HAPPENED in the book, I said the facts (all given with references btw) made me doubt the now commonly accepted theory, because maybe it's not so well proven after all.
Also if you notice in the book, the people on the "environmental terrorist" side are all, aside from the main bad guys (Nick Drake etc), deeply commited to their cause and believe they are the good guys who are saving the planet...
Actually I just finished a book by Michael Crichton called the State of Fear that argues, somewhat convincingly, that global warming really is FUD. He argues that everyone is so convinced that global warming is real because it's basically the new catasrophe to fill up the newspapers and keep the people in a state of fear so that they are easier to control.
The little scientific 'proof' that global warming is actually happening is found mostly because confirming the common belief gets you grant money and, reading between the lines in those studies (he showed examples), the data is actually against the global warming theory but in the conclusion it is almost always stated that "therefore, there is global warming".
He also has charts of different places all over the globe showing that the temperature either stayed the same or actually declined from mid 1800's to today, if one were to look at the entire available data set and not cherry pick the time periods where the temperature may increase. The biggest increase in temperature is in the cities because cities generate heat and while temperature gets adjusted for that, some scientists think it's not adjusted nearly enough. In fact he showed 2 charts, one in New York City with the adjusted temperature and one in Albany, NY (I think they are relatively close) that show the temperature in New York steadily rising while in Albany it's actually falling.
Anyway, before reading that book (especially the appendices) I was more or less convinced that global warming was at least somewhat true, but now I am having doubts and I would probably require solid proof including all the numbers before I start believing that something is occuring because of global warming. (I'm not arguing that the Gulf Stream may be losing temperature, I'm arguing about the reasoning for the cause they present in the article that really sounds like a lot of speculation).
As far as I can see, you would still need to refuel the car. Except this time, instead of oil based gasoline you will be using metal coil made from light metals like magnesium and aluminum. So although the article says the cost of running this car would be the same as today's gasoline-based cars I somehow suspect that those estimates will rise if it's ever used on a global scale...
I block ads because I don't feel they offer me anything. My mindset is that I would rather find out about new products through news/blogs/user comments because they have a much better chance of being unbiased than ads. And if I decide that I want something I will research which brand to buy myself rather than relying on the companies selling the product to compare different brands. That's not to say ads don't affect me as they probably do, but I try to minimize the chances of that happening.
I "block" ads on TV by switching to a different channel when an ad comes on (lots of people do this) and then flip back and forth with the last button. I ignore ads in printed media by not reading them.
For internet I use Proxomitron that blocks popups and turns image ads into white space.
Honestly we are so saturated with ads nowdays that a lot of people simply block them out mentally or hate them so much that they would rather not buy a producted with some flashy ad and instead buy a similar one that wasn't advertised.
so i was playing the only fps game on consoles, goldeneye, on my xbox. i had thought of waiting for the pc version to come out since bill gates claimed he would make it much better than the xbox version but my now handless girlfriend (we'll get to that in a second) wanted goldeneye and she wanted it now!
so i bought the game and tried it but i soon found that like every other xbox game, it had horrible gameplay and even graphics had a lot of glitches at some points. for example goldeneye's eye looked more silver than gold to me. there's no surprise that according to the recent netcraft study the game sold something close to 5 (five) copies in both japan and europe combined.
anyway what this post is all about is that mere minutes after starting the game with my girlfriend, the xbox caught on fire, causing the giant oversized controller my girlfriend was holding to explode, setting her hands on fire. we managed to put out the fire on her hands (which had burned up to the elbows by now) but unfortunately the fire managed to spread to the carpet and soon the entire house was on fire. now we are homeless and its all bill gates fault.
just use some wi-fi spray to speed up your data transfer rates and youre all set. i plan on completely soaking my ethernet router in this stuff permantenly
1. When the arrow is in a place just its own size, it's at rest.
2. At every moment of its flight, the arrow is in a place just its own size.
3. Therefore, at every moment of its flight, the arrow is at rest.
Aristotle's solution
* The argument falsely assumes that time is composed of "nows" (i.e., indivisible instants).
* There is no such thing as motion (or rest) "in the now" (i.e., at an instant).
Get off sympatico. Switch to cable (rogers still doesn't have limits even though they lowered bandwidth to 1.5 mbit down and 392 kbit up recently). If that's not an option, consider the following (although slightly more expensive, but also faster and with no caps) DSL isps (based on sympatico's network):
Uh, I think that means that handbags, etc will have wires going to your body or made of conducting material if you're planning on carrying your PDA in them.
There is an awesome program called Proxomitron thats basically a local proxy. It will block popups, javascripts, ads, cookies, and anything else you might want (it has about 5 billion options and you can add your own block lists). Since its a proxy which modifies html code that gets sent to your browser, it works for every browser, but its Windows only. I would probably kill myself if I had to web surf without it again;/
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reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation makes it clear that this isnt "teleportaion" as you would think about it. you can't use it for transportation or anything.
the way it basically works is that say 2 people have an entangled pair of qubits. then person A who wants to send some quantum state to person B measures his qubit which then collapses into some random state. person A, now knows the state of person B's qubit because they are entangled and sends some information to person B (classically, by, say, telephone or whatever) that tells person B what operation to perform on his qubit to turn it into the state that he wanted to send.
so the best this can be used for, as far as i can see, is transmitting a huge amount of information but only having to send very small amount through 'classical' channels.
actually i believe english is one of the easiest languages to learn. i was told that when i was learning english after moving to canada when i was around 12 (russian is my first language). finnish and some asian languages like japanese are suppose to be the hardest to learn. also, being able to understand a language is much easier than being able to speak it. and speaking without an accent is pretty much impossible for most people without special training if they learned the language after they were 12
i have 0 clue about quantum mechanics etc (comp sci major).
however, would this be possible:
bob tells alice that he will send a signal to her as follows:
at exactly 1 hours, 23 minutes, 33 seconds, 50 milliseconds... (whatever time precision you want to use) bob will change the state of particle A.
at 1 hours, 23 minutes, 34 seconds and 50 milliseconds... bob will change the state of particle B.
then continue for as many particles as you wish.
if all these changes take place and assuming relatively perfectly synchronized clocks, would that not mean that there is a high probability that bob did, indeed, send a message? also increasing the number of particles and the precision of time would increase the degree of certainty, as far as i can see anyway.
again all i know about quantum physics is popular literature so i have no idea if this is anywhere near the realm of possibility, but im simply curious why it wouldnt (or would) be.
im running vista ultimate from msdn...
i have 2gb ram, currently it is using 880mb. when i first boot up without running any extra things its uses up about 600mb
as for the rest:
Broken program files menu that doesn't cascade (so you have to know where what you're looking for is before you look for it).
thats not true. it does cascade on the left where it says 'folders' (this is hidable so if you dont see it you need to click "folders" button thing on the bottom left. i mightve changed something in the options to enable this, i dont know.
Font bugs that regularly turn the fonts to unreadable crap requiring a reboot.
havent had this problem...
Running about 50% of available software switches aeroglass off. Sometimes it doesn't come back on without a reboot.
only thing that does this for me is windows media player classic (the one thats distributed with k-lite codec pack). it hasnt failed to come back on yet, though.
S...L...O...W... I mean this is a dual processor 64bit machine and it's slower than the celeron running XP next to it.
i have to agree about slowness. vista feels MUCH slower than xp or server 2003 i had previously.
some other problems:
- i have an ipod. vista has a built in support for ipods. if i leave it plugged in, sometimes it can be nearly impossible to safely 'eject' it. once you go to safely remove hardware and press remove, it freezes for a little while and then opens the ipod disk drive folder as if you just plugged it in. also leaving the ipod plugged in can and will cause blue screens that require a reboot. i havent seen blue screens since windows 98... its strange to see them in vista again.
- because of the new security model (no administrator account), many applications fail to work properly because they run other apps that require admin privileges. the solution to this is find what it is they are trying to run, go into properties and change it to run in admin mode for all accounts (not just yours). this is pretty cryptic and i doubt less technical people will be able to figure this out on their own.
- vista seems to crash and freeze up quite a bit. its nowhere near as stable as win xp was (which wasnt completely stable to begin with)
- from a regular user perspective, i dont really see anything new other than the prettied up gui and huge annoyances due to the new security model (although you can turn it off if you want). it seems like vista is trying really hard to copy everything good that macs have while still remaining windows, but its not really working out too well.
i have rogers cable 6mbps plan
if im downloading from, say, newsgroups, i will consistently and at any time of day get 6mbps
if im downloading from some random website, i will get random speed anywhere from 50kb/s to 700kb/s
just for this comment, i ran a speed test at http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/
result:
Communications 4 megabits per second
Storage 483.9 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 2.1 seconds
funny thing is, i can start up my newsgroups client right now and get 6mbps (from an external usenet service, my isp does not provide one)
so, maybe the bandwidth speed test isnt all that accurate after all?
hope george bush is busy finding out which country has the biggest supply of copper so he can start burying weapons of mass destruction in advance to avoid future embarassments!
I never said I believed what HAPPENED in the book, I said the facts (all given with references btw) made me doubt the now commonly accepted theory, because maybe it's not so well proven after all.
Also if you notice in the book, the people on the "environmental terrorist" side are all, aside from the main bad guys (Nick Drake etc), deeply commited to their cause and believe they are the good guys who are saving the planet...
Actually I just finished a book by Michael Crichton called the State of Fear that argues, somewhat convincingly, that global warming really is FUD. He argues that everyone is so convinced that global warming is real because it's basically the new catasrophe to fill up the newspapers and keep the people in a state of fear so that they are easier to control.
The little scientific 'proof' that global warming is actually happening is found mostly because confirming the common belief gets you grant money and, reading between the lines in those studies (he showed examples), the data is actually against the global warming theory but in the conclusion it is almost always stated that "therefore, there is global warming".
He also has charts of different places all over the globe showing that the temperature either stayed the same or actually declined from mid 1800's to today, if one were to look at the entire available data set and not cherry pick the time periods where the temperature may increase. The biggest increase in temperature is in the cities because cities generate heat and while temperature gets adjusted for that, some scientists think it's not adjusted nearly enough. In fact he showed 2 charts, one in New York City with the adjusted temperature and one in Albany, NY (I think they are relatively close) that show the temperature in New York steadily rising while in Albany it's actually falling.
Anyway, before reading that book (especially the appendices) I was more or less convinced that global warming was at least somewhat true, but now I am having doubts and I would probably require solid proof including all the numbers before I start believing that something is occuring because of global warming. (I'm not arguing that the Gulf Stream may be losing temperature, I'm arguing about the reasoning for the cause they present in the article that really sounds like a lot of speculation).
As far as I can see, you would still need to refuel the car. Except this time, instead of oil based gasoline you will be using metal coil made from light metals like magnesium and aluminum. So although the article says the cost of running this car would be the same as today's gasoline-based cars I somehow suspect that those estimates will rise if it's ever used on a global scale...
I block ads because I don't feel they offer me anything. My mindset is that I would rather find out about new products through news/blogs/user comments because they have a much better chance of being unbiased than ads. And if I decide that I want something I will research which brand to buy myself rather than relying on the companies selling the product to compare different brands. That's not to say ads don't affect me as they probably do, but I try to minimize the chances of that happening.
I "block" ads on TV by switching to a different channel when an ad comes on (lots of people do this) and then flip back and forth with the last button. I ignore ads in printed media by not reading them.
For internet I use Proxomitron that blocks popups and turns image ads into white space.
Honestly we are so saturated with ads nowdays that a lot of people simply block them out mentally or hate them so much that they would rather not buy a producted with some flashy ad and instead buy a similar one that wasn't advertised.
so i was playing the only fps game on consoles, goldeneye, on my xbox. i had thought of waiting for the pc version to come out since bill gates claimed he would make it much better than the xbox version but my now handless girlfriend (we'll get to that in a second) wanted goldeneye and she wanted it now!
so i bought the game and tried it but i soon found that like every other xbox game, it had horrible gameplay and even graphics had a lot of glitches at some points. for example goldeneye's eye looked more silver than gold to me. there's no surprise that according to the recent netcraft study the game sold something close to 5 (five) copies in both japan and europe combined.
anyway what this post is all about is that mere minutes after starting the game with my girlfriend, the xbox caught on fire, causing the giant oversized controller my girlfriend was holding to explode, setting her hands on fire. we managed to put out the fire on her hands (which had burned up to the elbows by now) but unfortunately the fire managed to spread to the carpet and soon the entire house was on fire. now we are homeless and its all bill gates fault.
hows that?
just use some wi-fi spray to speed up your data transfer rates and youre all set. i plan on completely soaking my ethernet router in this stuff permantenly
why cant you just flash the bios with a cracked version and then if needed crack os/apps?
And people say those who read slashdot don't get girls! There's 5 billion kilogirls sitting in a beige box next to me right now~
There is more information about the assembly here.
Zeno's Paradox of the Arrow
A reconstruction of the argument
1. When the arrow is in a place just its own size, it's at rest.
2. At every moment of its flight, the arrow is in a place just its own size.
3. Therefore, at every moment of its flight, the arrow is at rest.
Aristotle's solution
* The argument falsely assumes that time is composed of "nows" (i.e., indivisible instants).
* There is no such thing as motion (or rest) "in the now" (i.e., at an instant).
Are those generals commanding troops though an X-Box?!
Infoseek was cool because you could search within the returned results. That's the biggest reason why I used it back in the day.
this is obviously a troll as you yourself claim in the signature.
http://www.tht.net/n/internet_access/adsl_personal .htm
c ess_se.html
http://services.igs.net/residential_high_speed_ac
http://www.cuic.ca/alternate/index.htm
I think most of these are Greater Toronto Area based but you shouldn't have a problem finding one for the area you live in, just search in Google.
Reading comprehension is your friend.
There is an awesome program called Proxomitron thats basically a local proxy. It will block popups, javascripts, ads, cookies, and anything else you might want (it has about 5 billion options and you can add your own block lists). Since its a proxy which modifies html code that gets sent to your browser, it works for every browser, but its Windows only. I would probably kill myself if I had to web surf without it again ;/