As I understand it (and I may be completely wrong), you can't, because it's impossible to actually measure the photons exactly - you can only gain knowledge about certain characteristics of them, in a process which irreversibly alters their states. This is (part of) what makes it impossible to listen in on a quantum transmission undetectably.
Think about it - if this were possible, an unwanted listener on the line could sample the stream, and then generate two streams - one back along the line, and one into his own recorder. Since quantum communication apparently makes this impossible, the answer should be no, whether or not my understanding of the situation is exactly correct.
The great thing about OS X is that you can have access to most of that low-level stuff (although obviously not all) if you want, but you also get a computer that "just works" when you want it to, and that you can get stuff done on without understanding every last detail of how it works, and without setting up every last piece by hand.
Don't get me wrong, I like Linux, but especially for stuff like laptops with less common hardware, it's just not worth the hassle of making it all work (And before you mod me down, I have actually tried Linux, both Mandrake and Debian, and this comment is based on experience, not popular opinion from/.)
Scientific American actually had an article on a similar topic. Basically, they seem to be accepting crashes as ineveitable, and were focusing on systems to help computers recover from crashes faster and more reliably...
They also propose that all computer systems should have an "undo" feature built in to allow harmful changes (either due to mistakes or malice) to be easily undone...
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I don't think a sysadmin in the world could fuck that up.
It's not so much stupider, as just less familiar with technology and computers specifically.
Although I concede it can be damn hard to persaude yourself of this when you're explaining something that's trivial to you to someone for the n-teenth time - I'm well acquainted with the feeling...
I'm a big fan of Lightwave. It's a LOT cheaper than Maya, especially if you get a student discount, and it's pretty easy to learn to use, and it's DAMN powerful.
I still like the page-flipping aspect of books, especially if I want to flip back to find when a character that just stepped out of the wings first showed up. I think that's a really good point. Getting a good, intuitive, interface is going to be really important to getting e-books adopted, IMO. With a paperback, you can mark a page with a finger, and flip back to find something earlier. If you have an idea of where something was earlier in the book, you can flip through and find it pretty quickly, just by reading little snippets of pages to figure out where you are in the story. E-books are going to need some kind of nice, easy-to-understand-and-learn interface that offers equivalent functionality if e-books are ever to become common.
The "Legal" solution proposed by that Yalie simply won't work w/o stronger DRM, which currently isn't available, and which hopefully won't ever be widespread... He claims that streaming would not involve illegal copying, but I have to question if he really knows what he's talking about. Just because certain players will stream from certain sources does not stop anyone from redirecting those streams to disk and storing them there for as long as they want... Failing that, there's always the good old high-quality speaker+Micropone setup (in Windows, at least, you can even "record" straight from line out... no BG noise to worry about!) We definitely need a solution, but this is not it.
I want to see just how real the thousands of Agents are, since they are 100% CGI during one fight scene.
As of the trailer, not very. I noticed it at once, and I wasn't even looking for it at all.
I think that it just spawns a process that will, VERY rapidly, spawn a copy of itself and then die. So it shouldn't actually hurt much, just create a hard-to-kill process flitting around in memory. My knowledge with bash is somewhat weak, and it MAY be spawning TWO processes each time, in which case your memory is quickly filling up with little bash functions each spawning more bash functions. However, I'm nearly certain that it's the first option, so don't really worry about it too much unless your computer starts getting really slow, in which case reboot.
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As I understand it (and I may be completely wrong), you can't, because it's impossible to actually measure the photons exactly - you can only gain knowledge about certain characteristics of them, in a process which irreversibly alters their states. This is (part of) what makes it impossible to listen in on a quantum transmission undetectably.
Think about it - if this were possible, an unwanted listener on the line could sample the stream, and then generate two streams - one back along the line, and one into his own recorder. Since quantum communication apparently makes this impossible, the answer should be no, whether or not my understanding of the situation is exactly correct.
Nah ... they're just REALLY inaccurate.
echo 'main() { while (1) if (fork() == 0) while(1); }' > dos.c
gcc -o dos dos.c &&
It's not exactly Java, but Beanshell works pretty nicely
Coincidentally enough, a few articles down on my front page is an article about Apple coming out on top for hardware reliability...
MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
(Then again, I guess you do pay for what you get.)
The great thing about OS X is that you can have access to most of that low-level stuff (although obviously not all) if you want, but you also get a computer that "just works" when you want it to, and that you can get stuff done on without understanding every last detail of how it works, and without setting up every last piece by hand.
/.)
Don't get me wrong, I like Linux, but especially for stuff like laptops with less common hardware, it's just not worth the hassle of making it all work (And before you mod me down, I have actually tried Linux, both Mandrake and Debian, and this comment is based on experience, not popular opinion from
one of the big reasons the 3rd world is a mess.
I definitely read that as the 3rd big reason the world is a mess. I need sleep.
Scientific American actually had an article on a similar topic. Basically, they seem to be accepting crashes as ineveitable, and were focusing on systems to help computers recover from crashes faster and more reliably...
They also propose that all computer systems should have an "undo" feature built in to allow harmful changes (either due to mistakes or malice) to be easily undone...
I don't think a sysadmin in the world could fuck that up.
... you don't know some of the people ... :-D.
Oooh
It's not so much stupider, as just less familiar with technology and computers specifically.
Although I concede it can be damn hard to persaude yourself of this when you're explaining something that's trivial to you to someone for the n-teenth time - I'm well acquainted with the feeling...
Please - as any reader of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy can tell you, it's only 30 seconds. :)
When you try to access another computer, do you really see big red letters saying 'Acces denied!'?
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Well, I don't know about you, but that's how my server's configured!
I'm a big fan of Lightwave. It's a LOT cheaper than Maya, especially if you get a student discount, and it's pretty easy to learn to use, and it's DAMN powerful.
Anyone got the address?
I still like the page-flipping aspect of books, especially if I want to flip back to find when a character that just stepped out of the wings first showed up.
I think that's a really good point. Getting a good, intuitive, interface is going to be really important to getting e-books adopted, IMO. With a paperback, you can mark a page with a finger, and flip back to find something earlier. If you have an idea of where something was earlier in the book, you can flip through and find it pretty quickly, just by reading little snippets of pages to figure out where you are in the story. E-books are going to need some kind of nice, easy-to-understand-and-learn interface that offers equivalent functionality if e-books are ever to become common.
Read his post:
He wants something that doesn't sacrifice as much fidelity as a crappy cassette emulator or FM near-casting (emphasis mine).
Not really -- It's much more commonly used in a server environment. Putting it in the GUI for the regular version would probably just confuse people/
The "Legal" solution proposed by that Yalie simply won't work w/o stronger DRM, which currently isn't available, and which hopefully won't ever be widespread... ... no BG noise to worry about!)
He claims that streaming would not involve illegal copying, but I have to question if he really knows what he's talking about. Just because certain players will stream from certain sources does not stop anyone from redirecting those streams to disk and storing them there for as long as they want...
Failing that, there's always the good old high-quality speaker+Micropone setup (in Windows, at least, you can even "record" straight from line out
We definitely need a solution, but this is not it.
I want to see just how real the thousands of Agents are, since they are 100% CGI during one fight scene. As of the trailer, not very. I noticed it at once, and I wasn't even looking for it at all.
And there's another two points! (As of this posting)
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OSXvnc.
Very nice, and easy to use. It's even got (more-or-less) builtin support for launching it from a shell.
I think that it just spawns a process that will, VERY rapidly, spawn a copy of itself and then die. So it shouldn't actually hurt much, just create a hard-to-kill process flitting around in memory.
My knowledge with bash is somewhat weak, and it MAY be spawning TWO processes each time, in which case your memory is quickly filling up with little bash functions each spawning more bash functions.
However, I'm nearly certain that it's the first option, so don't really worry about it too much unless your computer starts getting really slow, in which case reboot.
Her server resources were even more minimalist than her icons...
War is peace. Ignorance is strength.