I recommend it. Make sure you install the Rebirth and SHTUP community mods, since they significantly improve the 3D models and the textures respectively.
Like others have suggested: the IE Tab addon works great for this case. You can whitelist the sites you want to view in IE, so once added they'll open automatically with the IE renderer. One drawback: it doesn't work anymore with FF 3.6 (hacking the version in about:config might work, didnt try). Although they will probably update it, it will also probably break again when FF 3.7 arrives.
Good news however. Starting with Flash 10.1, it will be GPU accelerated for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
I don't think that's such good news. It will create a direct path from the web to the video driver and hardware. I'm pretty sure there are all kinds of exploits waiting to be found there...
For $499 + $299/phone plus $75/electronic game you can play every $75 board game electronically, and watch video in your lap, and surf the web, and take calls (though not conveniently), and control your other home devices.
Fixed that for you. Or did you really think the electronic version of the game would come any cheaper?
b.) there's an Alien / Evil AI Behind the Curtain that actually calls the shots, and presidents don't have the discretion to act as is commonly thought.
When I want to send a signal, I make the particles on my end "react" in a pulse-width-modulation fashion, like Morse code. Their corresponding particle pairs on the other end will "untangle" at the same rate, but instantaneously.
This is the mistake most people make when they think about entanglement.
Suppose you have two entangled states, red and green. On the 'transmitter' side you try to modulate them as Morse. There are two ways to do this.
The classical way is to block/unblock the path of the particles, but that way the signal will travel at the speed of light to the destination.
The other way is to try to measure the particles as red/green in Morse intervals. This will not work because when you measure a particle as green, the outcome of that measurement will be random: n% green, (100-n)% not green (usually n is 50%). The other side will then measure (100-n)% green and n% not green (assuming full entanglement and correlation).
So you cannot control in what state the particle's waveform will collapse at your end, you can only measure it. The only thing you can be sure of is that the other side will measure the opposite of whatever randomness you measure.
One interesting question that this raises is: was the particle already in the red/green state before I measured it? This would behave the same as picking a red and green marble, juggle them around without looking, and throwing one in one direction and the other in the opposite direction. There have been experiments to check this, and the result was that the statistics of the measurements don't match up with the marble experiment. They only match up with the case were the particles have both states at the same time (quantum superposition) until you measure that state and it collapses randomly.
The point is that for a number of quantum phenomena, there exist no analogous phenomena in the classical world view. So while I understand you're trying to dumb it down for the lay men, the reason why your analogy doesn't work is because there is no analogy possible. Not even a bad one.
As for the colored marbles, it's possible to perform a number of experiments with them that, when repeated with quantum particles, give very distinct statistical results. For one, marbles don't entangle states. Maybe we should try this with colored strings instead and call it 'string theory';-)
Actually, they mostly do it to reward the poster since Funny mods don't increase karma, but Informative or Insightful mods do. Something that's modded to +5 Funny and then modded Overrated a few times will even burn the poster's karma. But yes, it's also humorous in most cases.
If I remember correctly, in T2 they said the T1 CPU was broken, but just by studying the design they got a technological head start. Melting it in a steel furnace did the trick in T2. But that still didn't stop T3 from being made. Mainly because Hollywood wanted another sequel, I guess.
if all machines were built by copying older machines, we'd get to see "machine evolution" as people tended to copy the ones that worked better and throw away the ones that didn't.
You say this like it is hypothetical, but look around. This has been going on for quite a while. Just compare the earliest airplane with an F18.
because MSFT never made an OS that don't hit swap like there is no tomorrow
They did. It's called Windows CE. It used a fixed amount of memory, so it won't page to disk/flash.
I wonder why they chose XP over CE on the OLPC devices. Because CE would be a better fit here.
Then again, CE is just similar to desktop Windows, and barely compatible (besides some special readers for MS formatted files, and ActiveSync to transfer those).
Java has a garbage collector designed to protect you from memory leaks
No. It was designed to automatically reclaim unused instances/memory.
It's still quite possible to create memory leaks in Java (just forget a reference in a static list for example).
I was just commenting on how you compared power (100GW) to energy (US electricity consumption).
As for my original statement: while theoretically it might be possible to punch a hole with radiation pressure, in practice the thermal effects would dwarf the radiation pressure by several orders of magnitude. I already alluded on this in my original post, but didn't realize just how weak radiation pressure actually was. A few back-of-the-envelope calculations later (and some refutations by you and Chris Burke), I know now that the MW laser in this story would probably not even be able to punch through in theory (assuming perfect reflection, no absorbtion). So I stand corrected.
Dunno. I was looking for an example where there was no force on the target area at one moment, and a constant force from the next moment on. I didn't really think of the falling part.
Maybe I should have used a car analogy (can I drop a car on a table?), after all this is/.
No, the kinetic energy of the falling brick will create a shock on impact. That creates "extra" force beyond the weight of the brick resting on the table. That's nothing like the situation here.
OK, maybe a brick wasn't a good example. But photons do have kinetic energy, so maybe bouncing a ball off a vertical wooden wall would be a better example.
Shock waves occur when the target medium is compressed faster than the speed of sound in that medium. So a step up in force of sufficient amplitude would do the trick.
I honestly don't know if radiation pressure shock waves actually occur in reality (I'm obviously not a high-energy laser scientist), but I think they could, in theory, with sufficient laser power and sufficiently small target area.
Like I said before, thermal effects are several magnitudes bigger, so it would be very difficult to separate radiation pressure shock waves (assuming they occur) from thermal shock waves (where rapid expansion exerts the force).
That said, I made my original comment with laser fusion in mind, where laser beams are used to compress a target bead. My mistake was twofold: the laser power used there is more than thousand times greater, and the compression occurs by a thermal shock wave, instead of radiation pressure. So yes, radiation pressure would be insignificant next to that.
What I meant was that right before the laser hits there is just atmospheric pressure, and then in a nanosecond this pressure increases. So on the target area, there is suddenly extra force applied. I'm sure this will create a shock wave. It's like dropping a brick on a table: the weight will create a shock on impact and constant pressure afterwards.
But other than that, I agree with you.
This amounts to 1/4 of total U.S. electricity consumption. Utterly impractical.
You're confusing power with energy. The trick is to deliver some moderate amount of energy (10-100kJ range) in a very short amount of time (femptoseconds), see for example here. It would require a large installation to house the capacitors, but it would certainly be practical for stationary installations and probably also battle ships.
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There, fixed that for you.
There are so many COBOL variations, each with their own intricacies, that even migrating code from one COBOL to another is like walking a mine field.
I recommend it. Make sure you install the Rebirth and SHTUP community mods, since they significantly improve the 3D models and the textures respectively.
Like others have suggested: the IE Tab addon works great for this case. You can whitelist the sites you want to view in IE, so once added they'll open automatically with the IE renderer. One drawback: it doesn't work anymore with FF 3.6 (hacking the version in about:config might work, didnt try). Although they will probably update it, it will also probably break again when FF 3.7 arrives.
Not quite correct: in that case the zero sign bit is extended into the DX register, clearing it.
I don't think that's such good news. It will create a direct path from the web to the video driver and hardware. I'm pretty sure there are all kinds of exploits waiting to be found there...
Fixed that for you. Or did you really think the electronic version of the game would come any cheaper?
It's OK to say 'damn'. Unless you're Irish of course.
There, fixed that for you.
This is the mistake most people make when they think about entanglement.
Suppose you have two entangled states, red and green. On the 'transmitter' side you try to modulate them as Morse. There are two ways to do this.
The classical way is to block/unblock the path of the particles, but that way the signal will travel at the speed of light to the destination.
The other way is to try to measure the particles as red/green in Morse intervals. This will not work because when you measure a particle as green, the outcome of that measurement will be random: n% green, (100-n)% not green (usually n is 50%). The other side will then measure (100-n)% green and n% not green (assuming full entanglement and correlation).
So you cannot control in what state the particle's waveform will collapse at your end, you can only measure it. The only thing you can be sure of is that the other side will measure the opposite of whatever randomness you measure.
One interesting question that this raises is: was the particle already in the red/green state before I measured it? This would behave the same as picking a red and green marble, juggle them around without looking, and throwing one in one direction and the other in the opposite direction. There have been experiments to check this, and the result was that the statistics of the measurements don't match up with the marble experiment. They only match up with the case were the particles have both states at the same time (quantum superposition) until you measure that state and it collapses randomly.
The point is that for a number of quantum phenomena, there exist no analogous phenomena in the classical world view. So while I understand you're trying to dumb it down for the lay men, the reason why your analogy doesn't work is because there is no analogy possible. Not even a bad one. ;-)
As for the colored marbles, it's possible to perform a number of experiments with them that, when repeated with quantum particles, give very distinct statistical results. For one, marbles don't entangle states. Maybe we should try this with colored strings instead and call it 'string theory'
Actually, they mostly do it to reward the poster since Funny mods don't increase karma, but Informative or Insightful mods do. Something that's modded to +5 Funny and then modded Overrated a few times will even burn the poster's karma. But yes, it's also humorous in most cases.
No it isn't. There are no hidden variables. This can and has been statistically proven.
If I remember correctly, in T2 they said the T1 CPU was broken, but just by studying the design they got a technological head start. Melting it in a steel furnace did the trick in T2. But that still didn't stop T3 from being made. Mainly because Hollywood wanted another sequel, I guess.
You say this like it is hypothetical, but look around. This has been going on for quite a while. Just compare the earliest airplane with an F18.
Seems like he already has one of those, so he wouldn't save a dime.
Now the phone also has to guess when you're gesturing to control it, or just gesturing while you're talking (or just moving in general).
Line comments (//) are part of the 'new' C syntax (C99). Most modern compilers support it.
They did. It's called Windows CE. It used a fixed amount of memory, so it won't page to disk/flash.
I wonder why they chose XP over CE on the OLPC devices. Because CE would be a better fit here.
Then again, CE is just similar to desktop Windows, and barely compatible (besides some special readers for MS formatted files, and ActiveSync to transfer those).
No. It was designed to automatically reclaim unused instances/memory. It's still quite possible to create memory leaks in Java (just forget a reference in a static list for example).
I was just commenting on how you compared power (100GW) to energy (US electricity consumption).
As for my original statement: while theoretically it might be possible to punch a hole with radiation pressure, in practice the thermal effects would dwarf the radiation pressure by several orders of magnitude. I already alluded on this in my original post, but didn't realize just how weak radiation pressure actually was. A few back-of-the-envelope calculations later (and some refutations by you and Chris Burke), I know now that the MW laser in this story would probably not even be able to punch through in theory (assuming perfect reflection, no absorbtion). So I stand corrected.
Dunno. I was looking for an example where there was no force on the target area at one moment, and a constant force from the next moment on. I didn't really think of the falling part.
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Maybe I should have used a car analogy (can I drop a car on a table?), after all this is
OK, maybe a brick wasn't a good example. But photons do have kinetic energy, so maybe bouncing a ball off a vertical wooden wall would be a better example.
Shock waves occur when the target medium is compressed faster than the speed of sound in that medium. So a step up in force of sufficient amplitude would do the trick.
I honestly don't know if radiation pressure shock waves actually occur in reality (I'm obviously not a high-energy laser scientist), but I think they could, in theory, with sufficient laser power and sufficiently small target area. Like I said before, thermal effects are several magnitudes bigger, so it would be very difficult to separate radiation pressure shock waves (assuming they occur) from thermal shock waves (where rapid expansion exerts the force).
That said, I made my original comment with laser fusion in mind, where laser beams are used to compress a target bead. My mistake was twofold: the laser power used there is more than thousand times greater, and the compression occurs by a thermal shock wave, instead of radiation pressure. So yes, radiation pressure would be insignificant next to that.
What I meant was that right before the laser hits there is just atmospheric pressure, and then in a nanosecond this pressure increases. So on the target area, there is suddenly extra force applied. I'm sure this will create a shock wave. It's like dropping a brick on a table: the weight will create a shock on impact and constant pressure afterwards.
But other than that, I agree with you.
You're confusing power with energy. The trick is to deliver some moderate amount of energy (10-100kJ range) in a very short amount of time (femptoseconds), see for example here. It would require a large installation to house the capacitors, but it would certainly be practical for stationary installations and probably also battle ships.