A number of threads have mentioned eigenvalues/eigenstates and how a system is represented by them.
Eigenvalues and eigenstates have meaning when in terms of an operator which represents the perturbation to or observation of the system.
Every operator has a characteristic set of eigenvectors. Every quantum system is described by a wavefunction and prior to a pertubation/observation this wavefunction can be described as a linear combonation of the eigenvectors of the operator.
Following a perpurbation/observation decribed by the operator, the quantum system will be described by a one and only one eigenvector of the operator.
Of course, the probability of a particular eigenvector being chosen is represented by the square of the eigenvalue of the eigenvector.
yeah it should have said buckyballs are not the only form of molecular carbon which is why I bring up graphite and diamonds. I should not post before I have had coffee.
At $100 billion/yr they could easily provide a college education for everyone. But it would be better to give to the money to companies so they can hire more H1-B visa holders since they cannot find enough skilled americans (or so they claim).
No Child left behind simply means everyone is left behind since it is easier hobble the quick than train the slow
Personally I think if you mounted these on a bunch of Vespas, you could make good use of a City grid network for a game of Pacman or some other monster around the corner game. You will only be able to interact with other people when your Wifi signals overlap.
At what point does the lowering of the price of downloadable music approaching the practice of dumping? Similar to what the USA constantly accuses foreign memory chip or timber companies of doing? Is wal-mart using its monolopy on low end merchandise to sibsidize its entry into the music business to the detriment of competition?
So on a multi-CPU sever if you started the same process synchronously on multiple CPU, how close in time would they finish assuming there is sufficient memory and disk drive controller to prevent severe competition?
This is most likely a redundant reply but it does bring to mind the standard Open soruce argument "What would you do if the hood of your car was welded shut". So are cars really better these days or do they just simply have more horsepower/dollar?
Gamers aside (although lunar lander was/still is a cool game on a TRaSh-80), except for drop and drop copying and inline spell/grammer checking is Windows/X11 a real improvement of dos/shell programs of 15 to 20 years ago? And I am sure Emacs or edt could ahve had the inline spell checking on a system with sufficient memory and cpu power.
What would he view as an appropiate timeline for requiring ISP's to automatically assign an email signing certificate to every user and digitally sign every email that user sends through their smtp service. Conversely, ISP's would be required to accept email with signing certificate from a trusted root authority.
By having this done at the ISP level, it relieves the burden from the average user and will not tie you into a given email client
I view these requirements less as a means of stopping spam than as the first step to establishing a trusted delivery mechanism. Once you establish digital signing you can then go the next step and provide encryption services at the ISP level. Of course this would require an secure dial-up/broadband conncetion to the ISP but that can be handled at the oeprating system level and be hidden from the user.
As another example of the article being poorly put together:
The article states
"The usual way to make stretchable conductors is to embed metal particles in a rubbery polymer. But the particles tend to separate when the material is stretched, causing the electrical conductivity to plummet."
But the research in the end use a polymer which I assume would have to be rubbery in order to strech with the spring.
" Instead of fashioning the gold wires into helical springs, however, they gave them a flat, oscillating shape, like a meandering river, since this is easier to make. They manufactured them by electroplating gold onto a sheet of silver, surrounding the wires with polymer and then stripping the silver away."
Admittedly metal particles and metal wires are slightly different but a wire is simply a structure made up of particles.
I am setting up one of these boxes for someone. The Mandrake 9.1 distro that came with it seemed oddly different than other 9.1 installs I have done. The biggest difference was the lack of apache but as I roll my own this was not a big deal but I am curious to see other differences.
Until they fix their computer, just block their ability to send email except to their ISP and bounce all spam back to the email address registered with the ISP. Of course, this would simply end up being a DDOS against MSN and Yahoo.
Well I am sure at some point (if they do not already) they will have dedicated streaming content in those massive player online games and people will sit in their fake suburban homes and watch reruns of eFriends on their virtual TV's.
While it is nice to attack Microsoft for its monopolistic intentions. Like it or not, it is sufficiently integrated itself that it soon should be considered a Public Utility and regulated just like water, gas, Phone and TV/Cable/Sat. In many respects this is what happen to Standard Oil and AT&T. Yes they owned the market and they delivered a good product and yes it could be argued they over charged and drove out competition.
But the answer in the end was not microscale adjustments to their business but to have it redefined. If you want to protest against MS, then do it terms of macroscale effects such as actually splitting it up along product lines.
I am sure the people who sell search engine how-tos will be churning out scripts for customers to properly ramp up their anger.
If service agent says "blah blah blah"
you respond "yada yada yada" for 10 anger management points but pause for 3 seconds during your statement to ensure that you anger velocity quotient does not exceed 50 fcks/min
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A number of threads have mentioned eigenvalues/eigenstates and how a system is represented by them.
Eigenvalues and eigenstates have meaning when in terms of an operator which represents the perturbation to or observation of the system.
Every operator has a characteristic set of eigenvectors. Every quantum system is described by a wavefunction and prior to a pertubation/observation this wavefunction can be described as a linear combonation of the eigenvectors of the operator.
Following a perpurbation/observation decribed by the operator, the quantum system will be described by a one and only one eigenvector of the operator.
Of course, the probability of a particular eigenvector being chosen is represented by the square of the eigenvalue of the eigenvector.
for more see wikipedia
But eventually one could envision the use of solar powered electrolysis of water to produce hydrogen and oxygen.
Of course it will have taken polutting energy to make the produce the solar cells as well as the PDA.
In the end the biggest pollution sources will be the heavy metals/nonbiodegradable materials in the PDA
yeah it should have said buckyballs are not the only form of molecular carbon which is why I bring up graphite and diamonds. I should not post before I have had coffee.
Buckballs are not molecular carbon. One would wonder the health problems induced by graphite pencils or diamonds!
Carbon by itself is insufficient for life. Oxygen and nitrogen are important for building biomolecules on par with carbon. Not to mention hydrogen!
At $100 billion/yr they could easily provide a college education for everyone. But it would be better to give to the money to companies so they can hire more H1-B visa holders since they cannot find enough skilled americans (or so they claim).
No Child left behind simply means everyone is left behind since it is easier hobble the quick than train the slow
Personally I think if you mounted these on a bunch of Vespas, you could make good use of a City grid network for a game of Pacman or some other monster around the corner game. You will only be able to interact with other people when your Wifi signals overlap.
At what point does the lowering of the price of downloadable music approaching the practice of dumping? Similar to what the USA constantly accuses foreign memory chip or timber companies of doing? Is wal-mart using its monolopy on low end merchandise to sibsidize its entry into the music business to the detriment of competition?
But is there enough noise/error in non-competition resource access to cause them to unsync?
So on a multi-CPU sever if you started the same process synchronously on multiple CPU, how close in time would they finish assuming there is sufficient memory and disk drive controller to prevent severe competition?
Would be interesting to see what would happen if someone with severe dyslexia tried the game
Wonder how Mysql will handle the slashdot load? With luck we can get a performance statement from the site owners
This is most likely a redundant reply but it does bring to mind the standard Open soruce argument "What would you do if the hood of your car was welded shut". So are cars really better these days or do they just simply have more horsepower/dollar?
Gamers aside (although lunar lander was/still is a cool game on a TRaSh-80), except for drop and drop copying and inline spell/grammer checking is Windows/X11 a real improvement of dos/shell programs of 15 to 20 years ago? And I am sure Emacs or edt could ahve had the inline spell checking on a system with sufficient memory and cpu power.
What would he view as an appropiate timeline for requiring ISP's to automatically assign an email signing certificate to every user and digitally sign every email that user sends through their smtp service. Conversely, ISP's would be required to accept email with signing certificate from a trusted root authority.
By having this done at the ISP level, it relieves the burden from the average user and will not tie you into a given email client
I view these requirements less as a means of stopping spam than as the first step to establishing a trusted delivery mechanism. Once you establish digital signing you can then go the next step and provide encryption services at the ISP level. Of course this would require an secure dial-up/broadband conncetion to the ISP but that can be handled at the oeprating system level and be hidden from the user.
As another example of the article being poorly put together: The article states "The usual way to make stretchable conductors is to embed metal particles in a rubbery polymer. But the particles tend to separate when the material is stretched, causing the electrical conductivity to plummet."
But the research in the end use a polymer which I assume would have to be rubbery in order to strech with the spring.
" Instead of fashioning the gold wires into helical springs, however, they gave them a flat, oscillating shape, like a meandering river, since this is easier to make. They manufactured them by electroplating gold onto a sheet of silver, surrounding the wires with polymer and then stripping the silver away."
Admittedly metal particles and metal wires are slightly different but a wire is simply a structure made up of particles.
I am setting up one of these boxes for someone. The Mandrake 9.1 distro that came with it seemed oddly different than other 9.1 installs I have done. The biggest difference was the lack of apache but as I roll my own this was not a big deal but I am curious to see other differences.
see http://www.hp.com/workstations/itanium/zx6000/ and http://www.hp.com/workstations/ia32/index.html
And how does this differ from any other publicly traded company that has been around for more than 5 years. Adapt or die.
Small-Medium Business as opposed to home and enterprise markets
Until they fix their computer, just block their ability to send email except to their ISP and bounce all spam back to the email address registered with the ISP. Of course, this would simply end up being a DDOS against MSN and Yahoo.
Well I am sure at some point (if they do not already) they will have dedicated streaming content in those massive player online games and people will sit in their fake suburban homes and watch reruns of eFriends on their virtual TV's.
While it is nice to attack Microsoft for its monopolistic intentions. Like it or not, it is sufficiently integrated itself that it soon should be considered a Public Utility and regulated just like water, gas, Phone and TV/Cable/Sat. In many respects this is what happen to Standard Oil and AT&T. Yes they owned the market and they delivered a good product and yes it could be argued they over charged and drove out competition.
But the answer in the end was not microscale adjustments to their business but to have it redefined. If you want to protest against MS, then do it terms of macroscale effects such as actually splitting it up along product lines.
I am sure the people who sell search engine how-tos will be churning out scripts for customers to properly ramp up their anger.
If service agent says "blah blah blah" you respond "yada yada yada" for 10 anger management points but pause for 3 seconds during your statement to ensure that you anger velocity quotient does not exceed 50 fcks/min
Won't people simply confuse it with the movie of the same name?
Click here to see what happen when you hit Red Phosphorus
So when will the first knock off site appear asking you for simialr information but actually keep an image of it on their server?