Quantum teleportation does not transmit information faster than light in any meaningful sense because it is impossible to know what has been sent - or even that anything has been sent - until the classical component of the communication arrives. That can only ever travel slower than light.
Go ahead and mod me down, but I believe this problem was solved in the 1980's by Bill and Ted.
if you have loans, morgages, or credit card dept that carry intest, you want to pay that off ASAP before investing. (Obviously if you can get 7% per year investing and the intrest on your credit card is 15% it makes sense to pay it off first; but some people don't see this....)
I call this "The Jon Tait 2-Phase Plan to Becoming Independently Wealthy: Phase 1 - Get Independent. Phase 2 - Get Wealthy."
The guys at my work laugh so hard at me about this, but nearly all of 'em swear you can't get rich working hear and they can barely stand looking at their bills every month. Its not how much you make, its how you spend it. If you want to be better off financially, learn from books. Try to learn from mistakes the easy way: other people's mistakes.
I apologize for the harsh reply to you. In my experience, even 2/3 of "Professionals" and "Specialists" at any job or trade are just as good at their profession as your average grocery store cashier and bagger. Often their knowledge is out-dated, or they are closed-minded as a disguise for their arrogant pursuit of job security. I'm a computer programmer, and some of the stuff I see professionals (both contractors and in-house) doing would be laughable if it weren't such a sad state of affairs. I take EVERYTHING with a grain of salt, including both gospel theoretical physics and object-oriented software design theory. It just really annoys me when people look down their noses and try to leverage academic authority to discredit someone else, which I felt like you were doing. There are just as many lackeys in academia as anywhere else.
Good luck in school. I enjoyed it, may go back someday.
And if you're really interested in learning Special Relativity, you might consider supplementing pop science books with an actual physics text, to avoid misunderstandings like these.
People like you completely ruin the academic experience, and my ability to enjoy learning. If people don't want to jump through the hoops of formalism right along side you and share in your misery and lack of purpose, then you go out of your way to dis-credit our achievements. I'm sure this is simply to justify your own pathetic grant-writing existence. Have a nice life.
M$ and intel are opening up a HUGE market niche right now. I'm sure Apple isn't gonna sit still on this one, and the barriers to entry into the hardware market just got a lot lower. Wintel is biting off more than they can chew with this one. It seems like they think that they can target the old Hewlett Packard Home PC market and sell Zillions! of pc's to oblivious users (with Free! AOL software valued at $60!!).
Sorry, but unless I need this DRM'ed crap to get on the internet, I'd get a Mac first anyday.
yea dude, the answer to your question is right there. When you explain to your kid what peopel mean when they say "thats gay" tell them they mean "thats shitty" which is a slang reference to shit's real meaning: dookie. So really its slang based on the improper use of another slang term that really means YOU LIKE THE POOP. Go cry.
Nothing against gay people, I work with some gay people I would call friends every day, but they earn the respect just like everyone else by being cool. Good luck with the kid. I believe you can do just as good of a job raising your kid as a traditional mother/father, as long as you don't try to over-protect and shelter your kid. People might try to give him a hard time, but he'll be stronger and wiser for it.
My problem with Matrix was the 3rd movie. They did such a good job of building a philosophical ground to stand on in "Reloaded" with the French speaking guy and so many programming references (even "the architect"'s lines were good if you were capable of following them).
But "Revolutions" just recycled a bunch of the not-so-great lines from the 2nd movie like "some things do change" and "how many times do I have to tell you, Trinity/Morpheus/Neo". The music at Trinities deathbed sounded like one of Tarranski's film scenes in Simone, and all the good programming references were rendered useless by "plot twists" such as the indian family and neo being able to "see the machines without seeing" in "the real world".
Maybe they felt like they had to "do the un-expected" again or something, but what they really did was ruin all of the nice logic and philosophy they had set up. Pile that on top of the totally crude way they decided to show the sentinel battle (flying around the room like a big snake while the mech gunners shoot it in the HEAD) and you get the biggest dissapointment in years.
How about an alternative where you download the media simultaneously from over a dozen random people who are sharing that media. Then there is no single person to blame for uploading the content because each person only contributed a tiny portion of the media.
In effect, you would have to sue SO MANY PEOPLE in a scheme like this. I'm sure this is technically feasible because bit-torrent is a similar scheme.
With the Loudeye Digital Music Store, which uses Microsoft's Windows Media 9 series digital media platform, companies can quickly start their own customized and branded digital music service without having to negotiate with the record labels or create the music-service technology.
Sounds like OOM business design. Now I quickly make $$$ from this by writing "Object-Oriented Music Design Patterns For Dummies" book and patent it, then sell the rights to the RIAA. Keep up the good work, we might be able to bring back the gravy train!
I don't think these top-heavy ad-hoc markets will add up to a "big brother internet". Who wants that? I don't think it can get that bad, but if something like the big brother net can happen by pulling the wool over everyone's eyes midswing through the information age then it was probably inevitable by nature. If it happens it will be because we are better off with it.
Not even Intel, AMD, and Microsoft combined have the influence to "lock-in" everyone, I don't think its possible. Anybody here read Steven Johnson's "Emergence"? The system is most powerful when its run from the bottom up.
How long do you think it will take for people to achieve a "television-on-demand" peer-to-peer network similar to what kazaa has done with music? The infra-structure for this is already going in to place. How many hard-drives in tivo units are saving television programs across the US? With hard-drives, solid state memory, and DVD burners getting cheaper by the day, it won't be long until a group of tech savvy people on broadband connections bypass all standard tv show distribution methods in favor of peer-to-peer, maybe even bit-torrent type tv show distributions. (I can see another failing business model: commercials during the download time)
And once they start it, its not gonna stop. The thing that worries me is that the cost of producing a high-quality television program utterly dwarfs the cost of producing a record. The economics are simple: if its free to consume, consumers aren't going to pay for it. It is conceivable how music will survive peer-to-peer (performing-artist != starving-artist), but how can quality tv shows? Will it come down to giving up privacy for happiness?
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I call this "The Jon Tait 2-Phase Plan to Becoming Independently Wealthy: Phase 1 - Get Independent. Phase 2 - Get Wealthy."
The guys at my work laugh so hard at me about this, but nearly all of 'em swear you can't get rich working hear and they can barely stand looking at their bills every month. Its not how much you make, its how you spend it. If you want to be better off financially, learn from books. Try to learn from mistakes the easy way: other people's mistakes.
On my way to my 1st $mil...
Good luck in school. I enjoyed it, may go back someday.
Doesn't sound like you at all, does it.
People like you completely ruin the academic experience, and my ability to enjoy learning. If people don't want to jump through the hoops of formalism right along side you and share in your misery and lack of purpose, then you go out of your way to dis-credit our achievements. I'm sure this is simply to justify your own pathetic grant-writing existence. Have a nice life.
BITE MY SHINY METAL @$$
Crapped my pants when the the captain's head turned into bacon at night
ROFL!! that was strangely poetic.
The tone of that article really makes me cautious. I'm glad they are consoling me, because other wise one might think EFI==trojanHorse.
Sorry, but unless I need this DRM'ed crap to get on the internet, I'd get a Mac first anyday.
Nothing against gay people, I work with some gay people I would call friends every day, but they earn the respect just like everyone else by being cool. Good luck with the kid. I believe you can do just as good of a job raising your kid as a traditional mother/father, as long as you don't try to over-protect and shelter your kid. People might try to give him a hard time, but he'll be stronger and wiser for it.
OMFG ROFL!@#$
1) Buff your own pole
2) Make it into a video-game
3) Sue for profit!
They figured out the Get-Rich formula: 1) Buff your own pole 2) Make it into a book for the sheep 3) Profit!
But "Revolutions" just recycled a bunch of the not-so-great lines from the 2nd movie like "some things do change" and "how many times do I have to tell you, Trinity/Morpheus/Neo". The music at Trinities deathbed sounded like one of Tarranski's film scenes in Simone, and all the good programming references were rendered useless by "plot twists" such as the indian family and neo being able to "see the machines without seeing" in "the real world".
Maybe they felt like they had to "do the un-expected" again or something, but what they really did was ruin all of the nice logic and philosophy they had set up. Pile that on top of the totally crude way they decided to show the sentinel battle (flying around the room like a big snake while the mech gunners shoot it in the HEAD) and you get the biggest dissapointment in years.
In effect, you would have to sue SO MANY PEOPLE in a scheme like this. I'm sure this is technically feasible because bit-torrent is a similar scheme.
Sounds like OOM business design. Now I quickly make $$$ from this by writing "Object-Oriented Music Design Patterns For Dummies" book and patent it, then sell the rights to the RIAA. Keep up the good work, we might be able to bring back the gravy train!
Yea, stick their trusted-computing dick into it.
I love the wiseass remarks at the end of every news post on here. Its more fun than reading the articles ^^
"In other news, Intel has announced a new 64-bit computing platform costing around $1000 by next Christmas..."
I guess I can put off buying a new computer for another year..."
Not even Intel, AMD, and Microsoft combined have the influence to "lock-in" everyone, I don't think its possible. Anybody here read Steven Johnson's "Emergence"? The system is most powerful when its run from the bottom up.
DRM does better than expire, it just doesn't work. I feel wierd saying this, but even Steve Jobs and his crew recognize this
How long do you think it will take for people to achieve a "television-on-demand" peer-to-peer network similar to what kazaa has done with music? The infra-structure for this is already going in to place. How many hard-drives in tivo units are saving television programs across the US? With hard-drives, solid state memory, and DVD burners getting cheaper by the day, it won't be long until a group of tech savvy people on broadband connections bypass all standard tv show distribution methods in favor of peer-to-peer, maybe even bit-torrent type tv show distributions. (I can see another failing business model: commercials during the download time) And once they start it, its not gonna stop. The thing that worries me is that the cost of producing a high-quality television program utterly dwarfs the cost of producing a record. The economics are simple: if its free to consume, consumers aren't going to pay for it. It is conceivable how music will survive peer-to-peer (performing-artist != starving-artist), but how can quality tv shows? Will it come down to giving up privacy for happiness?