"A Palm device is intended to be a "temporary holding place for the information contained primarily in your PC"! "
How much traveling do you do? As a guy who likes to spend months at a time on the road or backpacking across Europe, this is deffinitely important. I'm not about to carry a Laptop around everywhere I go--but I _DO_ like to carry a PDA. Furthermore, I expect it to be rock-solid stable, and NEVER lose my data.
I used a Cassiopia (WinCE) for awhile, and ended up adding a flash card to store stuff permanently. If both batteries went dead without it, the RAM was gone, and so was my data. One of my biggest complaints about the device at the time.
That's absolutely ridiculous. A niced process doesn't hurt anything, and if he had legitimate access to the server, and you had a problem with his using free clock cycles, you could simply have told him that was innapropriate and removed the software.
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But he's Wil.. Therefore it's okay, because it's cool whenever he posts. Because we're geeks, and he longs to be more of a geek. This makes him something of a weird creature, an actor who would like to be geek. We, as slashdot readers, should feel honored that someone with (presumably) a life, would be interested in sharing his thoughts with us.
But then, before I rush to defend him, didn't anyone sit through his commentary during the TNN marathon? I mean, it was all fine and good the first 20 times. But I really don't want to hear any more about how it was hard being the only kid on the set, and how Wesley lacked the maturity of the adults, yadda yadda... Sorry, Wil, it really got pretty bad. Not as bad as that of Marina Sirtis, but pretty bad.
So if someone buys me the DVD and Wil's on it, saying "Wesley didn't have the maturity of the adults..." I think I'll scream.
Note, this is not the same old wesley bashing. Being a young kid myself when TNG was on the air, Wesley was my hero. I loved it whenever he showed up.
Unlikely. Our universe is so large, that I doubt humanity will reach a point where its powers of observation don't continue to increase... As we observe more, we will inevitably notice that "something is wrong". It seems to me that our observations of the world is something like estimating the area under the curve. Sure, the universe (curve) can be finite, but it would take some expression of the infinite (the calculus) to arrive at the TRUE nature of the universe. As it is, it seems to me, that we will simply continue to get better and better estimations without actually ever truly comprehending.
I've got a dead 75GXP, only unlike everyone else, I seem to be very much out of luck. IBM won't replace the drive because my drive is actually an OEM Dell part. I had no way of knowing this when I bought it from a retailer on pricewatch. Unfortunately, that was a year ago, and I haven't a CLUE who the retailer is. I have no proof of purchase that I can locate, which is stupid of me, I realize. Regardless, I have a failed drive from the Hungarian plant and feel like IBM should replace the drive... It's probably silly, but I feel much better than there's a class action lawsuit. Doesn't matter to me what comes of it, it just makes me feel better. Not logical, I realize.
If you'd read the article, you'd see that this wasn't the case as some of the 67 specimins on this island might be as old as 1000 years. It was thoguht extinct becausen one had been seen since the early 19th century.
Argh, this is probably dead by now.. but I'll try anyway.
Are you saying that one can either measure whether a photon is \ or / OR whether it is - |, but not both? So, if you measure the \ / state, and get/, then the entangled photon will also be/, yes? But if you measure the - | state, you have no way of knowing what the \/ state was, yes? Am I getting this at all right?
As I thought I understood it, Quantum entanglement caused two photons to have the same spin. The spin of either photon before being measured is equally likely to be either up or down. If either photon is measured, it turns out the other photon has exactly the same spin. How is this useful in transporting a message? Could someone either explain what I'm missing, or what I've got wrong about entanglement? I mean, the entanglement only pertains to the observation of the particle, so observing one of them "causes" the other to have the same spin. It makes photon teleportation possible, sure, but one has to transport the spin of the first proton via normal communications means. So how does it work for communication?
hah, i'm surprised no one else has thought of this... There was the previous discussion of rats that move a robotic arm using an invasive procedure.... and then the one about moving a house pointer with just electrodes strapped to your head.... so, you just stick a few 'trodes on the headset, and whamo, there's your input device:)
yay... more for me to drool over-- Not like I'll ever be able to afford this chip OR a Xeon any time before 2005 or so, when they become the equivelents of 486/33s in our minds...
Right, as the guy who replied to this said, this is NOT democracy... the US is a specially formulated blend of government, a sort of democratic republic.... If allowed, Christians WILL trample the rest of the religions in the country, and do so under the name of government and freedom, and so on and so forth. What prevents this is the system set up by the Founders which allows the will of the people to implemented in an INDIRECT manner... There is an intentional delay, a buffer... Maddison states somewhere in the _Federalist Papers_ that the ideas and desires of the people should be passed through a body of wise and just people, not immediately implemented... As for the people being wise and just, the founders realized this was frequently not the case, so they made provisions for the will of the people to be implemented regardless of ANY opposition from the government, but such an implementation DOES take time. So, basically what I was trying to say is that we should keep in mind that the people in power are not there simply to reflect whatever the people who elected them might have been thinking that instant--they are in fact frequently the opposite: a brake on the desires of the people...
heh, it was probably something i read a couple weeks ago that was published a couple months ago:) Yes, it DID involve an invasive procedurefor quadra---howeveryouspellit--, but said that another group was doing the same thing with non-invasive techniques.....
I saw something similar in the news a week or so ago where Humans have been able to move a mouse pointer across the screen merely by thinking about it--and with a non-invasive procedure....
being in touch with the people he represents does not necessarily make a GOOD congressman. It is not JUST the duty of politicians to implement the will of the people. The purpose of government, as stated in the declaration of independance is to secure the rights of the people, NOT implement the will of the people. If the will of the people were simplistically implemented, a tyranny of the majority would be short following. The majority of a population is just as capable of tyranizing over a minority as a dictator is. If congress decides to turn this nation into one directly endorsing good happy christianity, our freedom WILL be at stake. A group of Christians can be just as opressive as any of the dictators you might be familiar with. So before you go insisting that it's allright for congress to be in touch with what the people want, and insisting it's okay for them to do just whatever the people want, keep in mind that the federalists intended for congress to function as much more than simply an extension of the mass population.
Even _IF_ it were possible to filter just, say, dirty pictures, this measure would still be rather troublesome.. however... This sort of filtering is not at all possible! Any filtering device i've ever come into contact with filters MORE than just porn... They end up making it completely impossible to do much of ANYTHING on the web, and libraries just are NOT the place for this sort of thing, and our government is not who needs to making this sort of decision FOR us.
Uhm. No. Haven't you ever tried to use a system connected to one of those bloody filters? You can't get ANYTHING--it filters out perfectly harmless data... This is NOT the solution, and will never be the solution. Not to mention, 14 year olds looking for porn will find it whether at the library or elsewhere... A library should a place where any data can be accessed, not something that should be filtered. Ever.
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"A Palm device is intended to be a "temporary holding place for the information contained primarily in your PC"! "
How much traveling do you do? As a guy who likes to spend months at a time on the road or backpacking across Europe, this is deffinitely important. I'm not about to carry a Laptop around everywhere I go--but I _DO_ like to carry a PDA. Furthermore, I expect it to be rock-solid stable, and NEVER lose my data.
I used a Cassiopia (WinCE) for awhile, and ended up adding a flash card to store stuff permanently. If both batteries went dead without it, the RAM was gone, and so was my data. One of my biggest complaints about the device at the time.
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Sounds like too much sci fi channel for you, bud.
That's absolutely ridiculous. A niced process doesn't hurt anything, and if he had legitimate access to the server, and you had a problem with his using free clock cycles, you could simply have told him that was innapropriate and removed the software.
But he's Wil.. Therefore it's okay, because it's cool whenever he posts. Because we're geeks, and he longs to be more of a geek. This makes him something of a weird creature, an actor who would like to be geek. We, as slashdot readers, should feel honored that someone with (presumably) a life, would be interested in sharing his thoughts with us.
But then, before I rush to defend him, didn't anyone sit through his commentary during the TNN marathon? I mean, it was all fine and good the first 20 times. But I really don't want to hear any more about how it was hard being the only kid on the set, and how Wesley lacked the maturity of the adults, yadda yadda... Sorry, Wil, it really got pretty bad. Not as bad as that of Marina Sirtis, but pretty bad.
So if someone buys me the DVD and Wil's on it, saying "Wesley didn't have the maturity of the adults..." I think I'll scream.
Note, this is not the same old wesley bashing. Being a young kid myself when TNG was on the air, Wesley was my hero. I loved it whenever he showed up.
Berck
Unlikely. Our universe is so large, that I doubt humanity will reach a point where its powers of observation don't continue to increase... As we observe more, we will inevitably notice that "something is wrong". It seems to me that our observations of the world is something like estimating the area under the curve. Sure, the universe (curve) can be finite, but it would take some expression of the infinite (the calculus) to arrive at the TRUE nature of the universe. As it is, it seems to me, that we will simply continue to get better and better estimations without actually ever truly comprehending.
I've got a dead 75GXP, only unlike everyone else, I seem to be very much out of luck. IBM won't replace the drive because my drive is actually an OEM Dell part. I had no way of knowing this when I bought it from a retailer on pricewatch. Unfortunately, that was a year ago, and I haven't a CLUE who the retailer is. I have no proof of purchase that I can locate, which is stupid of me, I realize. Regardless, I have a failed drive from the Hungarian plant and feel like IBM should replace the drive... It's probably silly, but I feel much better than there's a class action lawsuit. Doesn't matter to me what comes of it, it just makes me feel better. Not logical, I realize.
If you'd read the article, you'd see that this wasn't the case as some of the 67 specimins on this island might be as old as 1000 years. It was thoguht extinct becausen one had been seen since the early 19th century.
Argh, this is probably dead by now.. but I'll try anyway.
/, then the entangled photon will also be /, yes? But if you measure the - | state, you have no way of knowing what the \/ state was, yes? Am I getting this at all right?
Are you saying that one can either measure whether a photon is \ or / OR whether it is - |, but not both? So, if you measure the \ / state, and get
As I thought I understood it, Quantum entanglement caused two photons to have the same spin. The spin of either photon before being measured is equally likely to be either up or down. If either photon is measured, it turns out the other photon has exactly the same spin. How is this useful in transporting a message? Could someone either explain what I'm missing, or what I've got wrong about entanglement? I mean, the entanglement only pertains to the observation of the particle, so observing one of them "causes" the other to have the same spin. It makes photon teleportation possible, sure, but one has to transport the spin of the first proton via normal communications means. So how does it work for communication?
Penguin computing sells an 8-way Xenon system..... Berck
hah, i'm surprised no one else has thought of this... There was the previous discussion of rats that move a robotic arm using an invasive procedure.... and then the one about moving a house pointer with just electrodes strapped to your head.... so, you just stick a few 'trodes on the headset, and whamo, there's your input device:)
yay... more for me to drool over-- Not like I'll ever be able to afford this chip OR a Xeon any time before 2005 or so, when they become the equivelents of 486/33s in our minds...
Right, as the guy who replied to this said, this is NOT democracy... the US is a specially formulated blend of government, a sort of democratic republic.... If allowed, Christians WILL trample the rest of the religions in the country, and do so under the name of government and freedom, and so on and so forth. What prevents this is the system set up by the Founders which allows the will of the people to implemented in an INDIRECT manner... There is an intentional delay, a buffer... Maddison states somewhere in the _Federalist Papers_ that the ideas and desires of the people should be passed through a body of wise and just people, not immediately implemented... As for the people being wise and just, the founders realized this was frequently not the case, so they made provisions for the will of the people to be implemented regardless of ANY opposition from the government, but such an implementation DOES take time. So, basically what I was trying to say is that we should keep in mind that the people in power are not there simply to reflect whatever the people who elected them might have been thinking that instant--they are in fact frequently the opposite: a brake on the desires of the people...
Berck
heh, it was probably something i read a couple weeks ago that was published a couple months ago:) Yes, it DID involve an invasive procedurefor quadra---howeveryouspellit--, but said that another group was doing the same thing with non-invasive techniques.....
Berck
I saw something similar in the news a week or so ago where Humans have been able to move a mouse pointer across the screen merely by thinking about it--and with a non-invasive procedure....
-Berck
being in touch with the people he represents does not necessarily make a GOOD congressman. It is not JUST the duty of politicians to implement the will of the people. The purpose of government, as stated in the declaration of independance is to secure the rights of the people, NOT implement the will of the people. If the will of the people were simplistically implemented, a tyranny of the majority would be short following. The majority of a population is just as capable of tyranizing over a minority as a dictator is. If congress decides to turn this nation into one directly endorsing good happy christianity, our freedom WILL be at stake. A group of Christians can be just as opressive as any of the dictators you might be familiar with. So before you go insisting that it's allright for congress to be in touch with what the people want, and insisting it's okay for them to do just whatever the people want, keep in mind that the federalists intended for congress to function as much more than simply an extension of the mass population.
Even _IF_ it were possible to filter just, say, dirty pictures, this measure would still be rather troublesome.. however... This sort of filtering is not at all possible! Any filtering device i've ever come into contact with filters MORE than just porn... They end up making it completely impossible to do much of ANYTHING on the web, and libraries just are NOT the place for this sort of thing, and our government is not who needs to making this sort of decision FOR us.
Uhm. No. Haven't you ever tried to use a system connected to one of those bloody filters? You can't get ANYTHING--it filters out perfectly harmless data... This is NOT the solution, and will never be the solution. Not to mention, 14 year olds looking for porn will find it whether at the library or elsewhere... A library should a place where any data can be accessed, not something that should be filtered. Ever.