Plus, when you pay your dollar-a-day overdue fee you get a warm fuzzy feeling for giving to the library
I don't know about New York, but where I live the library fines go to the town, not the library. Might want to check on that before you get excited about giving them money.
But seriously, this is not funny at all. This is a big step towards a 1984-like the government controlls everything society. I'd really like to hear what this can do that would improve security besides collect everyone's credit card numbers and e-mails. And even that won't do much good if they are encrypted with Elliptic Curve Cryptography.
The multiple universe theory is a way to explain the seemingly random choice of different quantum events. The theory is that if A, B, and C might happen, then all 3 of them happen and the wave functions affected by this are seperated in a way that they cannot interact. The term "multiple univereses" is really a misnomer, since it does not involve more than universe, just wavefunctions that cannot comunicate. This means that I see A, B, & C happen, but the me that can talk to you has to be the one that saw the same thing you did. I hope this clear up multiple universe theory somewhat. Disclamer: IANAQuantam Physicist
It's a MS Intellimouse Explorer. It does not track very well on my wood grain desk, so I have to use a sheet of white paper as a mouse pad:(. This may be due to the fact that the entire bottom of the mouse is tranparent red plastic so the blue LED does not shine tho very well. The blue LED appears bright enough in normal mode and does dim properly.
What about their 163-bit encryption makes it harder to brute force than any lesser bit encryption? Why is is "impossible" to break whereas the 109-bit encryption is only difficult?
Yes, electrical superconductors are heat superconductors. Unfortunatly, they have to be very very cold to work, so wouldn't help much versus lasers. High temperature superconductors would work as an efficent laser defense as has been pointed out by sci-fi authors.
Or it walks out of range of the wireless base station? I know my base station's coverage is pretty weak thoughout my house. Then again, at $1500+, another base station looks cheap.
On a more serious note, I'd really like to see how well it handles stairs and how well it can keep from running into things. I'd also be interested in how pet-proof it is.
If contributions are illegal, who do you think is going to end up in office? Only people that are already rich enough to pay for commericials, ads, etc. Do you really want the rich to control the country even more when you'll never even hear about anyone running who isn't rich?
Ok, Ok, Perhaps I should have said there is more to be gained by buying a book or piece of software after pirating it than by buying a movie or song after pirating it. I certainly agree that I would rather watch movies on my 60" TV than on my 19" computer screen. However, my point still holds for music. (I think.)
'Piracy' is in reality free advertising. Why don't the record companies and movie studios get it?
Probably because there is nothing to be gained by buying a copy of movie or a song after pirating it, whereas for software you buy it for upgrades or tech support and for books you buy it so that you can hold it in your hands instead of reading on the computer screen. If the record and movie companies provided free low quality copies of their works, they might be able to use this to get people to buy them in high quality formats. But, as it stands now, the quality of a downloaded song or movie is good enough that people don't seem to think its worth buying it for the quality increase.
Apple did give hardware to schools a long time ago. That is why so many schools have only recently switched over to PCs. At least in my town the Jr. Highs switched recently and the Elementary School is still using Macs.
I am not a fuel cell expert, but from what I have read, fuel cells are powered by hydrogen. So instead of paying to refill cartigages with methanol(sp?), why can't we just use electricity to extract the hydrogen from water and put that in our fuel cell powered laptop. Then manufacturers could just make a simple device that pluged into the wall and would refill empty cartriages using water.
However, by size the article is likely referring to the size of the event horizon of the black hole. The event horizon is the bondrary between where light can escape from the black hole and where it cannot.
As mentioned in the article, this is not a new idea, only the proof is new.
Of course, we could have just sent Beowulf Shaeffer to the center of the galaxy to find this out. (See "At the Core" by Larry Niven)
Well, lets see. Gateway/Dell: ~$600 for cheap computer with MS Office. iMac: ~$900 for cheap computer with MS Office. Which would Joe Average rather have? And don't tell me the iMac comes with Apple's office software, Joe Average would rather use MS Office like most other Joe Averages.
Yeah, that most likely would not work b/c of the Pauli Exclusion priniciple. The spin of electrons in atoms is strictly limited.
Qubits are for quantum computers btw, not for quantum RAM.
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Plus, when you pay your dollar-a-day overdue fee you get a warm fuzzy feeling for giving to the library
I don't know about New York, but where I live the library fines go to the town, not the library. Might want to check on that before you get excited about giving them money.
Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these.
But seriously, this is not funny at all. This is a big step towards a 1984-like the government controlls everything society. I'd really like to hear what this can do that would improve security besides collect everyone's credit card numbers and e-mails. And even that won't do much good if they are encrypted with Elliptic Curve Cryptography.
The multiple universe theory is a way to explain the seemingly random choice of different quantum events. The theory is that if A, B, and C might happen, then all 3 of them happen and the wave functions affected by this are seperated in a way that they cannot interact.
The term "multiple univereses" is really a misnomer, since it does not involve more than universe, just wavefunctions that cannot comunicate. This means that I see A, B, & C happen, but the me that can talk to you has to be the one that saw the same thing you did.
I hope this clear up multiple universe theory somewhat.
Disclamer: IANAQuantam Physicist
It's a MS Intellimouse Explorer. It does not track very well on my wood grain desk, so I have to use a sheet of white paper as a mouse pad :(. This may be due to the fact that the entire bottom of the mouse is tranparent red plastic so the blue LED does not shine tho very well. The blue LED appears bright enough in normal mode and does dim properly.
What about their 163-bit encryption makes it harder to brute force than any lesser bit encryption? Why is is "impossible" to break whereas the 109-bit encryption is only difficult?
Yes, electrical superconductors are heat superconductors. Unfortunatly, they have to be very very cold to work, so wouldn't help much versus lasers. High temperature superconductors would work as an efficent laser defense as has been pointed out by sci-fi authors.
Or it walks out of range of the wireless base station? I know my base station's coverage is pretty weak thoughout my house. Then again, at $1500+, another base station looks cheap.
On a more serious note, I'd really like to see how well it handles stairs and how well it can keep from running into things. I'd also be interested in how pet-proof it is.
If contributions are illegal, who do you think is going to end up in office? Only people that are already rich enough to pay for commericials, ads, etc. Do you really want the rich to control the country even more when you'll never even hear about anyone running who isn't rich?
Ok, Ok, Perhaps I should have said there is more to be gained by buying a book or piece of software after pirating it than by buying a movie or song after pirating it.
I certainly agree that I would rather watch movies on my 60" TV than on my 19" computer screen. However, my point still holds for music. (I think.)
'Piracy' is in reality free advertising. Why don't the record companies and movie studios get it?
Probably because there is nothing to be gained by buying a copy of movie or a song after pirating it, whereas for software you buy it for upgrades or tech support and for books you buy it so that you can hold it in your hands instead of reading on the computer screen. If the record and movie companies provided free low quality copies of their works, they might be able to use this to get people to buy them in high quality formats. But, as it stands now, the quality of a downloaded song or movie is good enough that people don't seem to think its worth buying it for the quality increase.
Apple did give hardware to schools a long time ago. That is why so many schools have only recently switched over to PCs. At least in my town the Jr. Highs switched recently and the Elementary School is still using Macs.
I am not a fuel cell expert, but from what I have read, fuel cells are powered by hydrogen. So instead of paying to refill cartigages with methanol(sp?), why can't we just use electricity to extract the hydrogen from water and put that in our fuel cell powered laptop. Then manufacturers could just make a simple device that pluged into the wall and would refill empty cartriages using water.
However, by size the article is likely referring to the size of the event horizon of the black hole. The event horizon is the bondrary between where light can escape from the black hole and where it cannot. As mentioned in the article, this is not a new idea, only the proof is new. Of course, we could have just sent Beowulf Shaeffer to the center of the galaxy to find this out. (See "At the Core" by Larry Niven)
Well, lets see. Gateway/Dell: ~$600 for cheap computer with MS Office. iMac: ~$900 for cheap computer with MS Office. Which would Joe Average rather have? And don't tell me the iMac comes with Apple's office software, Joe Average would rather use MS Office like most other Joe Averages.
Yeah, that most likely would not work b/c of the Pauli Exclusion priniciple. The spin of electrons in atoms is strictly limited. Qubits are for quantum computers btw, not for quantum RAM.