Well, if Oracle creates an incompatible version of Java, and starts selling it for big prices and requiring it to connect into their database, it will be a giant shot on their foot. Old Oracle customers can't migrate away from them now, since rewriting their SQL code would be too expensive, but rewriting their Java code would be orders of magnitude more expensive. You can't expect rationality from all of any population, but I'm quite confident that most of their customers would choose to save some 99% of the expensive, and ditch the database.
They promissed an app store for Vista, and again for 7.
Now, providing an app store is easy, but may be quite futile. If you still have XP, take a look at the "Add/Remove Programs". Did you ever questioned why there is an "Add" in the name? It is because it is an app store. It is quite useless, tough, and there is the great chalenge, not on making it available, but on making it usefull.
Ubuntu can have an usefull app store because it distributes free software. Apple can have an app store for the iPhone and the iPad, because most software is new, and they can strongarm developers into a license they (Apple) can use; notice that there is no app store for OS-X. Now, no big software distributor will accept the terms of Microsoft's store. Even less it being a company that is competing with every software distributor (and if it still doesn't have a competing product, it is a matter of time until it does), and usualy doesn't play fair. That store won't get out of paper (again), or will be as usefull as the "Add/Remove Progems" of XP (ok, with a few extra Microsoft products in it, like Office, MSSQL, Sharepoint,etc).
Thanks for clarifying the hidden variables. I really tought they were proposed to make quantum mechanics local.
Now, about FTL, that one I'm pretty sure that non-causality implies that some kind of FTL transporting is possible (even if only information can travel). What I'd like to know is if the 2nd law of thermodinamics would still hold.
Anyway, I'm also not holding my breath. I won't belive until I get a perpetual motion machine (or, at least a non deterministic computer) at my garage:)
I guess that, the Lorentz equations being right, any non-locality implies non-causality. I didn't do any formal prooving of that though, but it is quite hard to see how non-local phenomena can't be exploited toghether with the relativity of instantainety to also get non-causality on some frame of reference.
That said, I also don't see why people would look for non-local hidden variables. Weren't the hidden variables intent exactly to keep the theory local?
There weren't enough experiments. That is a recent result, people didn't still go crazy about it looking for details; those are some of the first to emerge. 5% is still too big, but you can't dismiss it by saying that 1 in 20 experiments should get those results.
You may be right this time. But history is not on your side. People flee from closed plataforms everytime an open one becomes available and the closed one does not support one of the products that the open one supports and they want. Then, they complain about too many choices...
That happened more than once on the computers history. You may know about the personal computer, but there were also Unix, and the Internet that I can name without much effort.
Their TOS can't (at least, on any serious country) disgree with their marketing. If they marketed an open product they should provide an open product. Installing a remote control device, even if Google never uses it with evil intent, makes it not open.
Microft wants lock-in..Net only for Windows makes every software not portable, OpenXML makes other programs not open Office documents, etc. Sonny is a bit more complex, they are composed of two companies with oposite interests. None of this is ideology, unless you fit greed on the definition of "ideology" (i think you should, but most people won't).
A professor could also add a lot of improvements on your writing, like changing the structure, pointing about missing parts, checking references. But the more likely outcome is that after you get to a professor, he answers "hey, like this paper somebody already published here?", what will save you a lot of time if it really is, or will show you the need to explain how your algorithm is different from what everybody else is researching.
Also, there are quite a few journals about comp-sci. Again, a professor will help you know what they are. And the bar for publications is surprizing low.
Linux processes are created with a 4kB stack by default, Windows processes are somewhat bigger anything else either can be shared or is specific for a single tab. Anyway, I doubt it is that few kB of extra memory that you is complaining about, so I'm having a hard time understand how processes use a lot of memory. Ok, on a web server with 10k processes running, that is important, but for only some 100 or so open pages? That adds to 400kB of RAM.
"If I really believed there was still innovation in PCs I would say that instant-response UIs--where cancel buttons worked and processes just got slower rather than stepping destroying responsiveness--were going going to be the next big thing. However, I don't think anyone gives a shit, because all the software vendors have gone down this road."
Well, I guess you don't give a shit either, since you are using those products, and even buying new equipment insted of changing the software. That decision makes sense, but you shouldn't be outraged that more people are doing exactly the same.
Was it a rethorical question? That is exactly so. People with DRMed music that they can play on one portable player also can't turn it into music that would play on another player after they buy another device, people that get DRMed government documents that are proof of a crime can't (by that proposal, the constitution of most places will disagree) publish that document in a format that the public or a judge will be able to read, and so on.
At most times, the conservation of momentum prohibits the particles to change into something else. That is one of the reasons people use coliders to make those experiments, when a particle colides with another one with the same momentum amplitude, but inverse direction, the total momentum is zero.
Also, the particles don't change into their constituents. They change into lots of things that may already be there or not, depending on the experiment.
When people say that Quantum Mechanics is not compatible with General Relativity, this is one of the problems they have in mind. Quantum entaglement is instantaneous, but that specific feature doesn't really make much difference, since it can't be used to communicate data.
Is "huge resistors" some layperson's translation of varistor? Or do they really use (ohmic) resistors to protected against that? I couldn't yet imagine how.
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Well, if Oracle creates an incompatible version of Java, and starts selling it for big prices and requiring it to connect into their database, it will be a giant shot on their foot. Old Oracle customers can't migrate away from them now, since rewriting their SQL code would be too expensive, but rewriting their Java code would be orders of magnitude more expensive. You can't expect rationality from all of any population, but I'm quite confident that most of their customers would choose to save some 99% of the expensive, and ditch the database.
Are my calculations correct, and is all of the detection band of it on temeperatures under 1K?
So, you predict that he'll show us a strong AI! I'd never expect something so groundbreaking.
They promissed an app store for Vista, and again for 7.
Now, providing an app store is easy, but may be quite futile. If you still have XP, take a look at the "Add/Remove Programs". Did you ever questioned why there is an "Add" in the name? It is because it is an app store. It is quite useless, tough, and there is the great chalenge, not on making it available, but on making it usefull.
Ubuntu can have an usefull app store because it distributes free software. Apple can have an app store for the iPhone and the iPad, because most software is new, and they can strongarm developers into a license they (Apple) can use; notice that there is no app store for OS-X. Now, no big software distributor will accept the terms of Microsoft's store. Even less it being a company that is competing with every software distributor (and if it still doesn't have a competing product, it is a matter of time until it does), and usualy doesn't play fair. That store won't get out of paper (again), or will be as usefull as the "Add/Remove Progems" of XP (ok, with a few extra Microsoft products in it, like Office, MSSQL, Sharepoint,etc).
Thanks for clarifying the hidden variables. I really tought they were proposed to make quantum mechanics local.
Now, about FTL, that one I'm pretty sure that non-causality implies that some kind of FTL transporting is possible (even if only information can travel). What I'd like to know is if the 2nd law of thermodinamics would still hold.
Anyway, I'm also not holding my breath. I won't belive until I get a perpetual motion machine (or, at least a non deterministic computer) at my garage :)
Well, once the others lose exclusivity on processing power, they'll have nothing to compete. Not even price.
There is an obvious flaw with that argument, that extends to yours. But, anyway, in general, markets are defined mainly by price.
I guess that, the Lorentz equations being right, any non-locality implies non-causality. I didn't do any formal prooving of that though, but it is quite hard to see how non-local phenomena can't be exploited toghether with the relativity of instantainety to also get non-causality on some frame of reference.
That said, I also don't see why people would look for non-local hidden variables. Weren't the hidden variables intent exactly to keep the theory local?
There weren't enough experiments. That is a recent result, people didn't still go crazy about it looking for details; those are some of the first to emerge. 5% is still too big, but you can't dismiss it by saying that 1 in 20 experiments should get those results.
Thus, portabe radios are ok. You need a microsystem to get in trouble.
There is no problem with communal goods. The problem here is that those "large corporate superorganisms" exist.
You may be right this time. But history is not on your side. People flee from closed plataforms everytime an open one becomes available and the closed one does not support one of the products that the open one supports and they want. Then, they complain about too many choices...
That happened more than once on the computers history. You may know about the personal computer, but there were also Unix, and the Internet that I can name without much effort.
Their TOS can't (at least, on any serious country) disgree with their marketing. If they marketed an open product they should provide an open product. Installing a remote control device, even if Google never uses it with evil intent, makes it not open.
Microft wants lock-in. .Net only for Windows makes every software not portable, OpenXML makes other programs not open Office documents, etc. Sonny is a bit more complex, they are composed of two companies with oposite interests. None of this is ideology, unless you fit greed on the definition of "ideology" (i think you should, but most people won't).
A professor could also add a lot of improvements on your writing, like changing the structure, pointing about missing parts, checking references. But the more likely outcome is that after you get to a professor, he answers "hey, like this paper somebody already published here?", what will save you a lot of time if it really is, or will show you the need to explain how your algorithm is different from what everybody else is researching.
Also, there are quite a few journals about comp-sci. Again, a professor will help you know what they are. And the bar for publications is surprizing low.
Linux processes are created with a 4kB stack by default, Windows processes are somewhat bigger anything else either can be shared or is specific for a single tab. Anyway, I doubt it is that few kB of extra memory that you is complaining about, so I'm having a hard time understand how processes use a lot of memory. Ok, on a web server with 10k processes running, that is important, but for only some 100 or so open pages? That adds to 400kB of RAM.
Well, I guess you don't give a shit either, since you are using those products, and even buying new equipment insted of changing the software. That decision makes sense, but you shouldn't be outraged that more people are doing exactly the same.
That's right. But nobody uses the python CLI to run python scripts.
Was it a rethorical question? That is exactly so. People with DRMed music that they can play on one portable player also can't turn it into music that would play on another player after they buy another device, people that get DRMed government documents that are proof of a crime can't (by that proposal, the constitution of most places will disagree) publish that document in a format that the public or a judge will be able to read, and so on.
At most times, the conservation of momentum prohibits the particles to change into something else. That is one of the reasons people use coliders to make those experiments, when a particle colides with another one with the same momentum amplitude, but inverse direction, the total momentum is zero.
Also, the particles don't change into their constituents. They change into lots of things that may already be there or not, depending on the experiment.
When people say that Quantum Mechanics is not compatible with General Relativity, this is one of the problems they have in mind. Quantum entaglement is instantaneous, but that specific feature doesn't really make much difference, since it can't be used to communicate data.
There were news reports on almost all nuclear powers using their nuclear weapons. Still, all of those have being threatened by MAD.
Thanks, that explains it.
The surge protectors don't need to resist the lightning. They only need to survive longer than your fuse.
Is "huge resistors" some layperson's translation of varistor? Or do they really use (ohmic) resistors to protected against that? I couldn't yet imagine how.
Testing them again and again is the one of best things anyone can do to become an assassin.