Side note: I use LaTeX and have persuaded people from Humanities to use it. I also use LyX because it can save me time but if it breaks I can always look under the hood. Once in a while I get a problem with my LyX installations on ubuntu or vista but they take at most an hour to fix.
I am very happy with LaTeX [my job involves math] but I think it is a little bit of an overkill. You see... Why do I have to use LaTeX to write a simple report (no math, mind you) that looks good? I think this is the main question. I honestly don't know why output from both Word and Open Office look so ugly compared to TeX?
Even if you want to maintain WYSIWYG, can't we have an option for publication quality pdf/ps output?
I think developers of office application are more concerned with the average grandmas and bosses than me.
Submission to Physical Review (as far as I know) is free unless you have fancy colorful graphics and even in that case I am not sure if you have to pay. European physics journals are free to read (the prominent ones I think) but they charge for publishing your papers. Reason maybe: Physical review letters is owned by American Physics Society which is a non-profit organization (think of a church) but the european journals are published by corporate publishers.
Of course you can always simply put your paper on the arxiv.org and no one will have to pay.
that's kicking my butt with ubuntu these days is cups and network printing; every time I manage to get it working, it takes a couple of weekends of pulling my hair out, and then it breaks again at the next upgrade. You are lucky my nvidida drivers break on Debian Edgy after every restart (which is rare).
Seconding that: "Theft?" While you never pay attention to the ads and if you ever did, you never click on them anyway, blocking should not make a difference on the website owners(not designers really) expected revenue. The owners could similarly argue that, if the users don't care about the ads, they don't have to care about blocking them either. I guess this argument goes both ways, making the whole discussion "overhyped".
Why do I keep seeing comments that have nothing to add to the article, on top of all others? If I could, I'd eat the moderation system and instead randomly spit out comments [selected uniformly]. That could be more informative, funny, and insightful in the long run. For the dessert of course, I would eat the karma points...and that's just after I've had digg for lunch.
Last weak, I managed to seriously mess up my Debian Sarge linux box at school by "enabling" the unstable repositories. Our system administrator took it away, and had to reinstall Sarge from scratch but he also kept a backup of/home and/etc. Today I received my box (along with admonitions about experimenting with the files system) and picked up my work from where I had left, almost seamlessly. I am also running windows on vmware [dealing with ms office files] on the box which was the way I had left it (including passwords of course and most of the shortcuts). So I would say it took zero seconds for me to tweak it on a fresh-installed Debian, since there was a backup. I guess it is mostly because the heavily used applications (and gnome) keep their stuff in/home/user/.foo
Mind you, it took me a week to get my box back but now the scroll wheel works:)
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Focus your fire on that unsupported hardware! I have often heard: "The nice thing about Windows all drivers built-in/easily available so that it just works as opposed to Linux where you have to write your own drivers in some cases to get by?" Apparently, this is not true anymore... You should start writing your own drivers for Vista... but wait where is my Vista compatible compiler?
By the way I am suffering day-to-day on a debian box in my office only because I don't have enough privileges to upgrade the kernel... I can feel your pain Vista users.
Similar intereference patterns(in time and space) are (relatively) trivial to do with light waves/particles. The other experiments mentioned in the article are instances were these are done with matter, and heavy matter for that matter.
For this experiment, consider an atom that would be ionized, once a strong enough laser is shined[spell?] onto it. These guys, as I understand it, have crafted a laser pulse (think of it as a flow) that goes up, down, and then up again. For the first part, when the laser gets strong enough while it "flows" through the atom, an electron *might* come out, then for the second second maximum, another electron might come out. In the end there will be [two?] one, or zero electrons coming out of this atom, but quantum mechanically there is no way to say which came from which bump in the flow.
What the electron detector detects in the end, again I guess, will be a variation of the detection rate as a function of some phase parameter that looks like an "interference pattern " [read "oscillations"]... I guess it became too technical, oops.
10 years ago this experiment would still be a "though experiment".
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Side note: I use LaTeX and have persuaded people from Humanities to use it. I also use LyX because it can save me time but if it breaks I can always look under the hood. Once in a while I get a problem with my LyX installations on ubuntu or vista but they take at most an hour to fix.
I am very happy with LaTeX [my job involves math] but I think it is a little bit of an overkill. You see... Why do I have to use LaTeX to write a simple report (no math, mind you) that looks good? I think this is the main question. I honestly don't know why output from both Word and Open Office look so ugly compared to TeX?
Even if you want to maintain WYSIWYG, can't we have an option for publication quality pdf/ps output? I think developers of office application are more concerned with the average grandmas and bosses than me.
Submission to Physical Review (as far as I know) is free unless you have fancy colorful graphics and even in that case I am not sure if you have to pay. European physics journals are free to read (the prominent ones I think) but they charge for publishing your papers. Reason maybe: Physical review letters is owned by American Physics Society which is a non-profit organization (think of a church) but the european journals are published by corporate publishers.
Of course you can always simply put your paper on the arxiv.org and no one will have to pay.
Seconding that: "Theft?" While you never pay attention to the ads and if you ever did, you never click on them anyway, blocking should not make a difference on the website owners(not designers really) expected revenue. The owners could similarly argue that, if the users don't care about the ads, they don't have to care about blocking them either. I guess this argument goes both ways, making the whole discussion "overhyped".
Why do I keep seeing comments that have nothing to add to the article, on top of all others? If I could, I'd eat the moderation system and instead randomly spit out comments [selected uniformly]. That could be more informative, funny, and insightful in the long run. For the dessert of course, I would eat the karma points...and that's just after I've had digg for lunch.
Imagine taking a picture of a wall in an empty black room with no windows and no lights. Even my pencil can do it, you don't need a camera for it.
Last weak, I managed to seriously mess up my Debian Sarge linux box at school by "enabling" the unstable repositories. Our system administrator took it away, and had to reinstall Sarge from scratch but he also kept a backup of /home and /etc. Today I received my box (along with admonitions about experimenting with the files system) and picked up my work from where I had left, almost seamlessly. I am also running windows on vmware [dealing with ms office files] on the box which was the way I had left it (including passwords of course and most of the shortcuts). So I would say it took zero seconds for me to tweak it on a fresh-installed Debian, since there was a backup. I guess it is mostly because the heavily used applications (and gnome) keep their stuff in /home/user/.foo
:)
Mind you, it took me a week to get my box back but now the scroll wheel works
By the way I am suffering day-to-day on a debian box in my office only because I don't have enough privileges to upgrade the kernel... I can feel your pain Vista users.
Why is the rating system linear instead of exponential. I would like a song that has one more star than another to play TWICE more often.
Yes.
... I guess it became too technical, oops.
You can read more about the double-slit experiment at wikipedia.
Similar intereference patterns(in time and space) are (relatively) trivial to do with light waves/particles. The other experiments mentioned in the article are instances were these are done with matter, and heavy matter for that matter.
For this experiment, consider an atom that would be ionized, once a strong enough laser is shined[spell?] onto it. These guys, as I understand it, have crafted a laser pulse (think of it as a flow) that goes up, down, and then up again. For the first part, when the laser gets strong enough while it "flows" through the atom, an electron *might* come out, then for the second second maximum, another electron might come out. In the end there will be [two?] one, or zero electrons coming out of this atom, but quantum mechanically there is no way to say which came from which bump in the flow.
What the electron detector detects in the end, again I guess, will be a variation of the detection rate as a function of some phase parameter that looks like an "interference pattern " [read "oscillations"]
10 years ago this experiment would still be a "though experiment".