Ah, but the whole point of the experiment is that there is magic (or something pretty amazing) happening here due to the longer idler path length! Take this same setup but reflect the idler photons out to Mars and back before it hits the Glen Thompson prism. So the signal photons hit the D0 detector (and form the hidden subset pattern) minutes before the entangled partners still on their way back from Mars even "know" what type of detector they're going to encounter.
We can't choose what path the idler photons take, but it's pretty darn amazing that the signal photons "know" before the idlers even get there what they will encounter!
I used to think the effects of quantum mechanics were strange but not truly spooky, until I learned about the Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser where essentially the "spooky action" happens backwards in time(!)
With the way GPUs have lately been becoming more and more powerful for parallel tasks, and the way multicore CPUs haven taken off, I wouldn't be surprised if most video was transcoded on the fly in 2016.
You've got the best idea in this thread. I'd go one further, and try to really get to know someone there and talk to them about their family and interests. Maybe it will become a friendship. I've also found that learning a few words and phrases in the local language and making an effort to use them goes a long ways.
That reminds me of Tipler's omega point theory... that when/if the universe collapses in a big crunch the computational capacity of the universe increases so exponentially that you could simulate every quantum state that ever did and ever could exist forever in the finite time before the crunch. Of course that's assuming there is a civilization still around capable of building it in the first place...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_point#Tipler.27s_cosmological_Omega_Point
Not entirely accurate. Your options are more limited but there are plenty of Sprint and Verizon phones that work very nicely overseas. I have personally used a sprint phone (bb 8830) in Europe on GSM with no issues, other than a quick reboot and setting change after landing. It comes with a sprint branded sim card. I hear you can also buy prepaid cards to swap out when you arrive (I'm assuming your phone would have to be unlocked though)
I think the problem isn't that Firefox is using 450mb of ram, but that Windows feels the need to start swapping like mad when you still have gigabytes of RAM free (I don't typically run Linux or MacOS so I don't know if those have the same problems). So either way, the effect is poor performance with all the unnecessary pagefile usage.
It is pork. Furthermore, I don't think stimulus money should be going towards things like airport security. The whole point of stimulus money should be to invest in things that will grow our economy. I don't see a very bright future in paying for ever more surveillance of our nation.
Definitely agree that more if not most spending needs to be turned over to the states. It's ridiculous that many arguments for massive transportation spending include that it wont cost as much because they get federal funds. Last I checked I pay a lot more in federal than state taxes. So we send all this money to the federal govt just to argue to get it back for a wasteful project. And congress wastes all their time dickering over who gets what federal money, with absolutely no incentive to reduce spending. Too much of where our taxes go is decided by people too far removed from the voters.
Very true. I don't understand why so many programs need write access to the registry or whatever they're doing with system files. Things like driver installation makes sense to need escalated privileges, but an instant messaging program doesn't IMO. I'm sure there's some technical or legacy reason for it, but it seems like a poor design decision.
Well that's what UAC was supposed to do, but UAC is crap. Not because it isn't a step in the right direction, but because most if not all major 3rd party software REQUIRES the user to grant them access to even install. People don't know the risks they're taking by clicking allow, but what alternative do they have? All it ends up is being a nuisance. It's a good thought, but you can't realistically solve the problem either by restricting access, or by simply warning people. The only clear solution I see to this is to sandbox every application at runtime, give it read access to certain necessary system files, and the user gets the option of giving it access to anything else.
I've found that lately on Slashdot, I agree with them that highly moderated humorous posts seem to far outnumber the interesting ones. I've actually ratcheted down all funny comments to -4 or -5, and browse at 2, to catch the more interesting discussions which get passed over. But I've never seen any reason to moderate them down now that we have control when logged in... I dunno, maybe others think that people who come here looking for facetious comments should have to browse at funny +5 instead of us sourpusses:)
Of course one problem is that all of the easily obtainable resources will have already been strip mined by us, so that by the time something crawls back out of the muck it will be considerably harder to advance past the club and stick phase.
Assuming a civilization ending destruction occurs, that doesn't necessarily mean all the resources are gone. Instead future generations will be processing garbage from landfills, electronic waste, decrepit buildings, seawater and the like. If anything it seems like they will have a head start with all sorts of processed metal prevalent in cities. Cars, wires, pipes, cans, coins, etc..
This already happens to some extent with friends who are part of a multi-level marketing type company (Avon, Mary Kay, etc..) or with school/church fundraisers. The only difference here is that it is digital and therefore much easier to ignore, and much harder to guilt trip someone into purchasing to help out a cause or a friend
You have a point in this particular case with the printer, but I certainly wouldn't apply that logic to all electronic devices. There are plenty of old electronics (486's included) which would be great for a kid to play with. I think the real problem is some thrift stores have no concept of how to price electronics appropriately (or almost anything else for that matter) to move them quickly. e.g. putting a $100 sticker on what should be a $10 or less 486.
A mesh network seems like a great idea. But how do you do it in a consumer version? What we need is a cheap box that someone can plug in and forget. With one based on 802.11g or n you're talking a couple hundred feet of coverage, if you're lucky. The bare minimum for a system needs to be a few thousand feet or more if you truly want to create a city wide network independent of a residential ISP.
Way back in the day I used to browse the web on an IBM 8086 with 640k of ram, using something similar to Lynx. I know there are versions out there for DOS so a 486 should be plenty. Not sure though how well they handle the web code on more "modern" sites crapped up with php, flash and css.
Waiting for the $1 currently popular eBook? You will be waiting a long time.
Which is exactly why e-books aren't catching on. Sure people care about the upfront price of the hardware, but not as much as the cost of the content. $10 e-books don't sell because the price point is too high for a digital piece of entertainment I'm not sure if I'll like. There's a reason why Redbox with their $1 video rentals is selling like crazy. When you get to that $1 price point, suddenly it doesn't matter as much if you threw away your dollar on something awful.
Agree that it depends on the capabilities, but often it seems that cell phones are locked down so much that we only get to use a small fraction of its potential. For instance, I'd love to be able to write or load my own apps onto my phone. I am curious what websites you use for product reviews that are mobile friendly?
Ugggh. No way. The last thing we need is an excuse to make games shorter! If anything, be it racing games or FPS, all this money is poured into development of the engine and controls and whatnot, and yet they only have 8-10 levels, which get old fast. Almost every game I can think of would benefit from more levels! I don't care whether they're in the first game or not, there are so many that(even ones 5-10 years old) I'd happily pay for level packs on.
The World War One museum in Kansas City is first rate. They make the causes of the war, and the technology used very interesting and easy to understand, and with a depth that will give you hours of stuff to read about. Even if you have little to no interest in history, you will like this place for an hour or two visit. Their interactive trench exhibits really do make you feel like you're there.
Liberty Memorial Museum
The things you listed are certainly worthy investments. But then again, everything you listed is ultimately vulnerable, and shortsighted. We have the technology now, at this point in history, to put people in space and insure a future for the human race, and indeed every living being on earth, and everything that has been created as a product of those. You never know when that opportunity will be taken away, be it climate change, nuclear war, disease, apathy, or a collapse of civilization. The time to go is now, while we still can! It should be the #1 priority of the human race.
How true. If RS had more of the types of things Newegg and Thinkgeek carry, I might actually go there more often. Newegg because of the computer parts, and Thinkgeek for the offbeat gadgets. Seems like that wouldn't be that hard to add to the current mix
The big problem with that philosophy, is that it is often used before a student is ready or even interested in knowing where a formula comes from. So the math lesson becomes a long boring derivation. I sat through way too many of those before I even knew what the teacher was getting at. Show a student how to do something first and once they are comfortable using it, then ask them where it came from. Get them interested in the why AFTER they know the practical use.
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Ah, but the whole point of the experiment is that there is magic (or something pretty amazing) happening here due to the longer idler path length! Take this same setup but reflect the idler photons out to Mars and back before it hits the Glen Thompson prism. So the signal photons hit the D0 detector (and form the hidden subset pattern) minutes before the entangled partners still on their way back from Mars even "know" what type of detector they're going to encounter.
We can't choose what path the idler photons take, but it's pretty darn amazing that the signal photons "know" before the idlers even get there what they will encounter!
I used to think the effects of quantum mechanics were strange but not truly spooky, until I learned about the Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser where essentially the "spooky action" happens backwards in time(!)
With the way GPUs have lately been becoming more and more powerful for parallel tasks, and the way multicore CPUs haven taken off, I wouldn't be surprised if most video was transcoded on the fly in 2016.
You've got the best idea in this thread. I'd go one further, and try to really get to know someone there and talk to them about their family and interests. Maybe it will become a friendship. I've also found that learning a few words and phrases in the local language and making an effort to use them goes a long ways.
That reminds me of Tipler's omega point theory... that when/if the universe collapses in a big crunch the computational capacity of the universe increases so exponentially that you could simulate every quantum state that ever did and ever could exist forever in the finite time before the crunch. Of course that's assuming there is a civilization still around capable of building it in the first place... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_point#Tipler.27s_cosmological_Omega_Point
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I think the problem isn't that Firefox is using 450mb of ram, but that Windows feels the need to start swapping like mad when you still have gigabytes of RAM free (I don't typically run Linux or MacOS so I don't know if those have the same problems). So either way, the effect is poor performance with all the unnecessary pagefile usage.
It is pork. Furthermore, I don't think stimulus money should be going towards things like airport security. The whole point of stimulus money should be to invest in things that will grow our economy. I don't see a very bright future in paying for ever more surveillance of our nation.
Definitely agree that more if not most spending needs to be turned over to the states. It's ridiculous that many arguments for massive transportation spending include that it wont cost as much because they get federal funds. Last I checked I pay a lot more in federal than state taxes. So we send all this money to the federal govt just to argue to get it back for a wasteful project. And congress wastes all their time dickering over who gets what federal money, with absolutely no incentive to reduce spending. Too much of where our taxes go is decided by people too far removed from the voters.
Very true. I don't understand why so many programs need write access to the registry or whatever they're doing with system files. Things like driver installation makes sense to need escalated privileges, but an instant messaging program doesn't IMO. I'm sure there's some technical or legacy reason for it, but it seems like a poor design decision.
Well that's what UAC was supposed to do, but UAC is crap. Not because it isn't a step in the right direction, but because most if not all major 3rd party software REQUIRES the user to grant them access to even install. People don't know the risks they're taking by clicking allow, but what alternative do they have? All it ends up is being a nuisance. It's a good thought, but you can't realistically solve the problem either by restricting access, or by simply warning people. The only clear solution I see to this is to sandbox every application at runtime, give it read access to certain necessary system files, and the user gets the option of giving it access to anything else.
I've found that lately on Slashdot, I agree with them that highly moderated humorous posts seem to far outnumber the interesting ones. I've actually ratcheted down all funny comments to -4 or -5, and browse at 2, to catch the more interesting discussions which get passed over. But I've never seen any reason to moderate them down now that we have control when logged in... I dunno, maybe others think that people who come here looking for facetious comments should have to browse at funny +5 instead of us sourpusses :)
Of course one problem is that all of the easily obtainable resources will have already been strip mined by us, so that by the time something crawls back out of the muck it will be considerably harder to advance past the club and stick phase.
Assuming a civilization ending destruction occurs, that doesn't necessarily mean all the resources are gone. Instead future generations will be processing garbage from landfills, electronic waste, decrepit buildings, seawater and the like. If anything it seems like they will have a head start with all sorts of processed metal prevalent in cities. Cars, wires, pipes, cans, coins, etc..
This already happens to some extent with friends who are part of a multi-level marketing type company (Avon, Mary Kay, etc..) or with school/church fundraisers. The only difference here is that it is digital and therefore much easier to ignore, and much harder to guilt trip someone into purchasing to help out a cause or a friend
You have a point in this particular case with the printer, but I certainly wouldn't apply that logic to all electronic devices. There are plenty of old electronics (486's included) which would be great for a kid to play with. I think the real problem is some thrift stores have no concept of how to price electronics appropriately (or almost anything else for that matter) to move them quickly. e.g. putting a $100 sticker on what should be a $10 or less 486.
A mesh network seems like a great idea. But how do you do it in a consumer version? What we need is a cheap box that someone can plug in and forget. With one based on 802.11g or n you're talking a couple hundred feet of coverage, if you're lucky. The bare minimum for a system needs to be a few thousand feet or more if you truly want to create a city wide network independent of a residential ISP.
Assuming all the drivers work, that does seem like it has the potential to be the most hassle-free solution
Way back in the day I used to browse the web on an IBM 8086 with 640k of ram, using something similar to Lynx. I know there are versions out there for DOS so a 486 should be plenty. Not sure though how well they handle the web code on more "modern" sites crapped up with php, flash and css.
Waiting for the $1 currently popular eBook? You will be waiting a long time.
Which is exactly why e-books aren't catching on. Sure people care about the upfront price of the hardware, but not as much as the cost of the content. $10 e-books don't sell because the price point is too high for a digital piece of entertainment I'm not sure if I'll like. There's a reason why Redbox with their $1 video rentals is selling like crazy. When you get to that $1 price point, suddenly it doesn't matter as much if you threw away your dollar on something awful.
Agree that it depends on the capabilities, but often it seems that cell phones are locked down so much that we only get to use a small fraction of its potential. For instance, I'd love to be able to write or load my own apps onto my phone. I am curious what websites you use for product reviews that are mobile friendly?
Ugggh. No way. The last thing we need is an excuse to make games shorter! If anything, be it racing games or FPS, all this money is poured into development of the engine and controls and whatnot, and yet they only have 8-10 levels, which get old fast. Almost every game I can think of would benefit from more levels! I don't care whether they're in the first game or not, there are so many that(even ones 5-10 years old) I'd happily pay for level packs on.
The World War One museum in Kansas City is first rate. They make the causes of the war, and the technology used very interesting and easy to understand, and with a depth that will give you hours of stuff to read about. Even if you have little to no interest in history, you will like this place for an hour or two visit. Their interactive trench exhibits really do make you feel like you're there. Liberty Memorial Museum
The things you listed are certainly worthy investments. But then again, everything you listed is ultimately vulnerable, and shortsighted. We have the technology now, at this point in history, to put people in space and insure a future for the human race, and indeed every living being on earth, and everything that has been created as a product of those. You never know when that opportunity will be taken away, be it climate change, nuclear war, disease, apathy, or a collapse of civilization. The time to go is now, while we still can! It should be the #1 priority of the human race.
How true. If RS had more of the types of things Newegg and Thinkgeek carry, I might actually go there more often. Newegg because of the computer parts, and Thinkgeek for the offbeat gadgets. Seems like that wouldn't be that hard to add to the current mix
The big problem with that philosophy, is that it is often used before a student is ready or even interested in knowing where a formula comes from. So the math lesson becomes a long boring derivation. I sat through way too many of those before I even knew what the teacher was getting at. Show a student how to do something first and once they are comfortable using it, then ask them where it came from. Get them interested in the why AFTER they know the practical use.