Not exactly. If the electron is bounded, it has some specific momentum probabilities, and some specific position probabilities. You can't find its position with any different certainty unless you remove it from the bounded state.
And that comes from the uncertainty principle. It is not just Dx * Dp >= h/(2 * pi). It is an statement that each state has some specific uncertanty, and that it isn't lower than that relation.
Well, TFA says they measured the repulsive force caused by Pauli exclusion principle. That means that their microscope was sensible to filled orbitals, not electrons.
Anyway, you can't really take a picture of an electron bounded into an atom. The uncertainty principle makes it impossible so say exactly where around the atom the electron is. The only way to measure that is releasing the electron from its bound, and then, it says nothing about where it was just before you release it.
The/. editor will report that just a week later, and then at the following day, the following week, the following month, and then the following year. But it will only get into front page at the following year.
Oh, yeah. Some people don't understand oportunity costs...
Yep, you are paying China to turn your iron into steel, they wouldn't do it for free. But now you have a suplus of capital that you didn't invest on steel producing, and can use improving something that you do better (or like doing better - not everybody want to be rich, some want to be happy). After you make other improvements, and it starts making sense to invest on steel production, you can put some money there too.
Now, of course, if you spend all your savings on some short lived toys, you won't have money to make you life better, improve what you do well or buy that steel making equipment later. But that is hardly foreign trade's falt.
Well, it seems that some things work better when centralized. (Altough that is not a consensus at all). That does not mean that #1, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8 are desirable.
By the way, the extreme right dicatorship that governed Brazil from the 60's to the 70's supported #4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Those were some very "Communists will eat your babies" people, but I'm quite sure that they'd also support #2 and 3 if they were confident that they'd govern for a long time. It seems that every dictator wanabe thinks alike.
1: Linux has 5 unified GUIs, your insensitive cloud!
2: That is wrong. Ext3 and lots of other FSes have it.
3: What is snappy? If responsive, you are wrong, if subjective, well, it depends:)
4: Yet none of them will be used in 500 years. Ok, altough very cool, there are reasons why they aren't in heavy use. I'm really thinking about migrating from Linux, but it is lacking real alternatives.
Well, one of the issues is fixed. Depending on what is the meaninng of "snappy", you have two. I'd recomend trying Ubuntu if you have a computer to spare.
You have a very good point. Problem (or solution) is there isn't a lot of complex enterprize software, it is mostly mapping from the disk to the interface and the other way around. Java shines at this environment.
But at the weekends, I guess most people's pet projects aren't such way. Mine aren't.
Ok, I'll bite. First, it doesn't take five minutes to learn, unless you really don't know woh to use Office advanced features, it takes a complete relearning of the interface. That usualy takes a few mounts of practice.
Second, name a single advantaje of the ribon. Even if it did take five minutes to learn, what return there is in spending those five minutes?
You know, I'm working on in-house software, and I do that. You only have a limited amount of resources, if you don't note the complaints as statistics and work on the most important problems, you'll get a POS out of the depelopment process.
Now, FOSS has another degree of freedom here. If a problem is very important for a single complainer, he can fix it himself. Otherwise, FOSS projects are probably doing exactly the same thing, taking notes of the problems and fixing the worst ones.
"Come to think of it, is there a way to do calculations with kids on/off your lawn?"
Of course you can make calculations with that, you'll just have to use probabilistic algorithms. In my times, children were better educated and really got out of old people lawn when they were yeled at. That was the time! You could have used deterministic algorithms by then!
Well, that was unexpected for me too. And you know, you are right. Real world applications behave quite differently from how academical models say they would, that is because the models didn't model teams limitations and the unavoidable mistakes (from the techies and from the HR) that add into some very siginificant amount on any project.
Too bad I didn't let that academical misconception go yet. That is why I was surprized.
Well, ok to accept the code, and everything... Yep, it was oppened for selfish reasons, that is not a problem... But let's keep ourselves at the realm of rationality. Wishing for Microsoft to stop destroing markets and ruining every area of IT is simply iluding ourselves.
They made a nice move, it could have being much worse. But there is no evidence at all of them becaming good citizens (the kind that doesn't destroy everyone they partner with).
Nice to see somebody talking about energy from water salinization once in a while, but that is not the first experiment to gather a few microjoules at lab. Up to now, no aparatus could be scaled up, all of them hit that "we just need better materials" barrier. There is a reason for that, because of the way difusion works, each device can create at most 100mV, and that will fall almost exponentially down to near 10mV once one starts gathering more than 5% of the available energy.
Just put that on the right perspective, there are just a few specialized diodes that will dissipate less than 100mV on the charge going through it. A normal silicon diode will dissipate 700mV, and there is simply no diode that will dissipate less than 10mV. Also, to get some sane amount of power at 10mV one needs quite a big current, the charge is available to extract that current, but the resistence of your circuit (and the capacitor's dieletric is a piece of the circuit) is a huge barrier. To create 1kW, one'd need a total current of 10^5A (of ions flowing into and out of the coal, if not electrons flowiong throug the circuit), with a total resistence of 10^-7 ohms. To reach such small reistences it is normaly needed lots and lots of material, or "just" better material.
I have a better question: "how do you force programmers to follow correct security in SELinux programming?"
And a few more: Shouldn't that be their goal t start with? Why the hell does it permit to map NULL into something that will not make the kernel panic? To debug?
"A lot of times when I see that I feel that if the developer isn't confident enough to call their application "The First Version", there's no way I'm going to use it."
Go ahead and don't use it. That zero is normaly there to indicate that the software is being tested, and isn't useable right now.
The last time I heard about phase change memory we were at the XX century:) It is very nice to see that the idea didn't die, and somebody finaly discovered a way of manufacturing it that can scale. There is hope that it leaves the vapourware status now.
Well, hopcotch can't be mapped into algebra. That is because a physical game isn't math. If you could map it into algebra, it would be math. Also, the numerical representation of anything is just a number, I guess... But a painting isn't math, only the mathematical representation of a painting is math.
Anyay, software is math. It is completely equivalent to things like set theory, aritmetics, etc*. They are just the same thing.
* The name "algebra" isn't explict here because it has two meanings, and one of those meanings ins't math.
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Not exactly. If the electron is bounded, it has some specific momentum probabilities, and some specific position probabilities. You can't find its position with any different certainty unless you remove it from the bounded state.
And that comes from the uncertainty principle. It is not just Dx * Dp >= h/(2 * pi). It is an statement that each state has some specific uncertanty, and that it isn't lower than that relation.
Atomic force microscopes can be very selective to "height" (being height the dimension perpendicular to the smple).
Well, TFA says they measured the repulsive force caused by Pauli exclusion principle. That means that their microscope was sensible to filled orbitals, not electrons.
Anyway, you can't really take a picture of an electron bounded into an atom. The uncertainty principle makes it impossible so say exactly where around the atom the electron is. The only way to measure that is releasing the electron from its bound, and then, it says nothing about where it was just before you release it.
No fair!
The /. editor will report that just a week later, and then at the following day, the following week, the following month, and then the following year. But it will only get into front page at the following year.
And just how is the US supporting the BRIC? The last time I saw, we are the ones lending the money to the US, not the other way around.
Oh, yeah. Some people don't understand oportunity costs...
Yep, you are paying China to turn your iron into steel, they wouldn't do it for free. But now you have a suplus of capital that you didn't invest on steel producing, and can use improving something that you do better (or like doing better - not everybody want to be rich, some want to be happy). After you make other improvements, and it starts making sense to invest on steel production, you can put some money there too.
Now, of course, if you spend all your savings on some short lived toys, you won't have money to make you life better, improve what you do well or buy that steel making equipment later. But that is hardly foreign trade's falt.
Well, it seems that some things work better when centralized. (Altough that is not a consensus at all). That does not mean that #1, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8 are desirable.
By the way, the extreme right dicatorship that governed Brazil from the 60's to the 70's supported #4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Those were some very "Communists will eat your babies" people, but I'm quite sure that they'd also support #2 and 3 if they were confident that they'd govern for a long time. It seems that every dictator wanabe thinks alike.
1: Linux has 5 unified GUIs, your insensitive cloud! :)
2: That is wrong. Ext3 and lots of other FSes have it.
3: What is snappy? If responsive, you are wrong, if subjective, well, it depends
4: Yet none of them will be used in 500 years. Ok, altough very cool, there are reasons why they aren't in heavy use. I'm really thinking about migrating from Linux, but it is lacking real alternatives.
Well, one of the issues is fixed. Depending on what is the meaninng of "snappy", you have two. I'd recomend trying Ubuntu if you have a computer to spare.
You have a very good point. Problem (or solution) is there isn't a lot of complex enterprize software, it is mostly mapping from the disk to the interface and the other way around. Java shines at this environment.
But at the weekends, I guess most people's pet projects aren't such way. Mine aren't.
NAS aren't PCs, as also aren't the routers, switches, and DVDs.
Ok, I'll bite. First, it doesn't take five minutes to learn, unless you really don't know woh to use Office advanced features, it takes a complete relearning of the interface. That usualy takes a few mounts of practice.
Second, name a single advantaje of the ribon. Even if it did take five minutes to learn, what return there is in spending those five minutes?
But emacs is just a Lisp interpreter. The text editor you see is another script.
You know, I'm working on in-house software, and I do that. You only have a limited amount of resources, if you don't note the complaints as statistics and work on the most important problems, you'll get a POS out of the depelopment process.
Now, FOSS has another degree of freedom here. If a problem is very important for a single complainer, he can fix it himself. Otherwise, FOSS projects are probably doing exactly the same thing, taking notes of the problems and fixing the worst ones.
Of course you can make calculations with that, you'll just have to use probabilistic algorithms. In my times, children were better educated and really got out of old people lawn when they were yeled at. That was the time! You could have used deterministic algorithms by then!
Well, that was unexpected for me too. And you know, you are right. Real world applications behave quite differently from how academical models say they would, that is because the models didn't model teams limitations and the unavoidable mistakes (from the techies and from the HR) that add into some very siginificant amount on any project.
Too bad I didn't let that academical misconception go yet. That is why I was surprized.
Well, ok to accept the code, and everything... Yep, it was oppened for selfish reasons, that is not a problem... But let's keep ourselves at the realm of rationality. Wishing for Microsoft to stop destroing markets and ruining every area of IT is simply iluding ourselves.
They made a nice move, it could have being much worse. But there is no evidence at all of them becaming good citizens (the kind that doesn't destroy everyone they partner with).
Nice to see somebody talking about energy from water salinization once in a while, but that is not the first experiment to gather a few microjoules at lab. Up to now, no aparatus could be scaled up, all of them hit that "we just need better materials" barrier. There is a reason for that, because of the way difusion works, each device can create at most 100mV, and that will fall almost exponentially down to near 10mV once one starts gathering more than 5% of the available energy.
Just put that on the right perspective, there are just a few specialized diodes that will dissipate less than 100mV on the charge going through it. A normal silicon diode will dissipate 700mV, and there is simply no diode that will dissipate less than 10mV. Also, to get some sane amount of power at 10mV one needs quite a big current, the charge is available to extract that current, but the resistence of your circuit (and the capacitor's dieletric is a piece of the circuit) is a huge barrier. To create 1kW, one'd need a total current of 10^5A (of ions flowing into and out of the coal, if not electrons flowiong throug the circuit), with a total resistence of 10^-7 ohms. To reach such small reistences it is normaly needed lots and lots of material, or "just" better material.
I have a better question: "how do you force programmers to follow correct security in SELinux programming?"
And a few more: Shouldn't that be their goal t start with? Why the hell does it permit to map NULL into something that will not make the kernel panic? To debug?
Go ahead and don't use it. That zero is normaly there to indicate that the software is being tested, and isn't useable right now.
Too bad LaTeX will never reach even the Firefox level :(
The last time I heard about phase change memory we were at the XX century :) It is very nice to see that the idea didn't die, and somebody finaly discovered a way of manufacturing it that can scale. There is hope that it leaves the vapourware status now.
Well, hopcotch can't be mapped into algebra. That is because a physical game isn't math. If you could map it into algebra, it would be math. Also, the numerical representation of anything is just a number, I guess... But a painting isn't math, only the mathematical representation of a painting is math.
Anyay, software is math. It is completely equivalent to things like set theory, aritmetics, etc*. They are just the same thing.
* The name "algebra" isn't explict here because it has two meanings, and one of those meanings ins't math.
It is some nucleic acid - protein complex that mutiplies inside cells.
You should know, the one named infueza is getting quite a bit of media exposition recently.
Well, Hotmail does work better with Internet Explorer, as do the Exchange web interface. Hell stil didn't break loose, as far as I know.
Well, since it replaces X11, compatibility won't be an issue.
Now, we'll probably be able to run it at the same time as we run X11. If it is any good, it may be interesting to have Chrome at CTRL+ALT+F8 :)