The topic reminds me of Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash character who works for the government and who's regularly probed for loyalty.
When will corporations (or the government) start making this gene therapy mandatory to up productivity?
Nuclear fusion is not only unpracticable, but it also generates radioactive waste! The plant and reactor become themselves radioactive over the years (even in the research labs where the "production" is only minimal).
So what do you do with that radioactive steel mass?
Quantum encryption means that if somebody eavesdrop your message, it will be altered, and your recipient will know about it. So you when your recipient receives the message intact you have guaranteed privacy, hence security.
I remember hearing that the mechanism for emitting the message implied creating conditions so that photons have 50-70 % chances of being emitted, and you inform your recipient about which time slots actually contained emitted photons. But I can't remember any more details, and I have to admit I fail to understand how this scheme guarantees privacy...
I should've specified (in (almost free) university in Québec, Canada). From what I read, it seems there's a huge difference in price between our respective provinces.
FYI, I paid 1000-1200 $ per semester and 500$ per internship semester, which totals to 14 000 for my Baccalauréat. I have a computer engineering degree from Université de Sherbrooke. I don't think medical or law schools are more expensive, when you come from Québec, that is.
I remember reading once that (in (almost free) Canadian universities) there were 40% too many students. Some people just don't have the capacity of earning a university grade, but somehow the system adapted to them... lower expectations, lower work load, toughest chapters always left out... and now is even giving them higher and higher grades.
Yes the capacity to teach university skills is disappearing fast and it has indeed tremendous effects.
IMHO, comparing gaming on a console and gaming on a computer is like comparing oranges to apples. When I sit at my desk I can use my mouse and keyboard (very handy when playing RTS for example). I think it changes the gaming experience a lot. No need to navigate your pointer with arrows... I've never played Starcraft on a gaming console but it must feel very different.
For the hardware argument, if your hardware is as old as mine, you can always play with lower resolution / detail, and still enjoy the game.
Also I don't get into a fight with my girlfriend over the control of the TV;-)
I remember a computer network class where some mathematical models were exposed. We would see at what point a protocol was the most efficient under the assumption that traffic demand was regular.
It turns out the all the mathematical deductions weren't valid, since observed network traffic consists of bursts of emission, instead of regular streams. So the author suggested that a whole different theory needed to be developped to understand networks better.
So I think assuming a Poisson distribution falls in the 'theoric' branch... or does it?
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I wouldn't be against ubiquitous safety, ala Diamond Age (Neil Stephenson) / Hominids (Robert J. Sawyer)
The topic reminds me of Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash character who works for the government and who's regularly probed for loyalty. When will corporations (or the government) start making this gene therapy mandatory to up productivity?
Isn't it true that a population of 30 individuals usually shows a stastically normalized distribution? So why is 60 individuals not enough?
That would be "Reacteur de fusion nucleaire" in French, not the plane's engine.
Sorry!
So what do you do with that radioactive steel mass?
I found a bit more details here and here. But I guess anybody can google.
Quantum encryption means that if somebody eavesdrop your message, it will be altered, and your recipient will know about it. So you when your recipient receives the message intact you have guaranteed privacy, hence security.
I remember hearing that the mechanism for emitting the message implied creating conditions so that photons have 50-70 % chances of being emitted, and you inform your recipient about which time slots actually contained emitted photons. But I can't remember any more details, and I have to admit I fail to understand how this scheme guarantees privacy...
FYI, I paid 1000-1200 $ per semester and 500$ per internship semester, which totals to 14 000 for my Baccalauréat. I have a computer engineering degree from Université de Sherbrooke. I don't think medical or law schools are more expensive, when you come from Québec, that is.
And if we can print it, there must be some way to see/edit the underlying circuitry, hence open source printable CPU's could be around the corner...
What is better that recompiling your kernel? Running it on your own variation of the Intel architecture.
Yes the capacity to teach university skills is disappearing fast and it has indeed tremendous effects.
For the hardware argument, if your hardware is as old as mine, you can always play with lower resolution / detail, and still enjoy the game.
Also I don't get into a fight with my girlfriend over the control of the TV ;-)
You might be interested in Iwata-san's explanation of the GameCube slow start.
Maybe the moderator should read this wired article first, since it contains answer to many questions posted here.
It turns out the all the mathematical deductions weren't valid, since observed network traffic consists of bursts of emission, instead of regular streams. So the author suggested that a whole different theory needed to be developped to understand networks better.
So I think assuming a Poisson distribution falls in the 'theoric' branch... or does it?