Wow, it completely turns the concept of public domain on its head. Watch the mad rush as people snatch up exclusive rights to publish old works like the bible.... Complete insanity.
The question shows that you are stuck to the classical way of thinking: events happen at specific points in space-time, and you can exactly pinpoint the time when something occurs (in a frame of reference).
In quantum mechanics, events don't happen at points in space-time, but between waves which interact in all of space-time. It's not exactly possible to say when something happened, so it's not exactly meaningful to say two things happened simultaneously. One way of looking at it is to say everything happens simultaneously to a (vanishingly) small degree.
Only probability keeps you from using quantum mechanics for FTL communications. This is kind of analogous to the second law of thermodynamics, which is only true in the probabilistic sense. If we can develop an infinite improbability drive...
Unfortunately, as Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea have demonstrated, they ARE stupid enough, and really don't care if they die for Allah or Kim or whoever.
No, they haven't. That's just the brainwashing talking.
Guess what? Not everyone is very concerned about security of their login. Sometimes convenience is more important. Supposing Lenovo can get their software to work quickly and with low error, it could be beneficial to people who don't want to bother with entering a password.
Quantity is more important than quality when it comes to environmental damage. You only need a small amount of fuel for a fusion reactor (compared with conventional reactors) and you produce a small amount of waste.
When the fusion reactor is decommissioned, there will be radioactive wastes, yes, but not enough to fill a mountain.
Correct, but in that instant when a fusion reactor fails, due to some disruption event, the plasma can dump all of its energy onto the walls of the fusion reactor. In current tokamak experiments, we just get some melting of the inner tiles when we have plasma disruptions. But with a full-scale reactor, there might be enough energy to blow open the wall.
Books that are all text can be just plain ASCII, or even HTML. Magazines, with all their pretty pictures and layouts, should have a typesetting format perhaps like pdf. No need to force a one size fits all on this.
It seems like the active, crazy Muslim population hates the passive, reasonable Muslims even more than they hate atheists. They'll totally murder you for being the wrong kind of Muslim.
Surely it's criminal perjury to falsely claim an invention in a patent. Assholes who hire thugs (lawyers) to intimidate people should be tried and punished.
I'm not gonna argue with misery, but environmental destructiveness? You got to be kidding if you think subsistence farming is more environmentally destructive than building ipads.
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Maybe she couldn't afford to be treated in the United States.
Wow, it completely turns the concept of public domain on its head. Watch the mad rush as people snatch up exclusive rights to publish old works like the bible.... Complete insanity.
I don't know how any country that calls itself free can prohibit this sort of thing.
try it in your freezer, and maybe you'll see the problem.
Who said the government needs to write a law to force them to do something?
Well, it seems the worst that can happen is that the platforms could be destroyed. Not a huge loss, compared with a destroyed oil platform.
The question shows that you are stuck to the classical way of thinking: events happen at specific points in space-time, and you can exactly pinpoint the time when something occurs (in a frame of reference).
In quantum mechanics, events don't happen at points in space-time, but between waves which interact in all of space-time. It's not exactly possible to say when something happened, so it's not exactly meaningful to say two things happened simultaneously. One way of looking at it is to say everything happens simultaneously to a (vanishingly) small degree.
Only probability keeps you from using quantum mechanics for FTL communications. This is kind of analogous to the second law of thermodynamics, which is only true in the probabilistic sense. If we can develop an infinite improbability drive...
err, but that creates a paradox
Unfortunately, as Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea have demonstrated, they ARE stupid enough, and really don't care if they die for Allah or Kim or whoever.
No, they haven't. That's just the brainwashing talking.
Textbook writers and professors knew all along that this stuff was elementary.
May I recommend a book for this class?
Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems, 6th Edition
http://www.amazon.com/Elementary-Differential-Equations-Boundary-Problems/dp/0471089559
Guess what? Not everyone is very concerned about security of their login. Sometimes convenience is more important. Supposing Lenovo can get their software to work quickly and with low error, it could be beneficial to people who don't want to bother with entering a password.
and this development helps humanity, how?
The only possible benefit I see is to help to bring the end to this fiasco that is Wall Street.
Quantity is more important than quality when it comes to environmental damage. You only need a small amount of fuel for a fusion reactor (compared with conventional reactors) and you produce a small amount of waste.
When the fusion reactor is decommissioned, there will be radioactive wastes, yes, but not enough to fill a mountain.
Correct, but in that instant when a fusion reactor fails, due to some disruption event, the plasma can dump all of its energy onto the walls of the fusion reactor. In current tokamak experiments, we just get some melting of the inner tiles when we have plasma disruptions. But with a full-scale reactor, there might be enough energy to blow open the wall.
What does this mean for all the sea life that gets pulled into these trawling nets?
like, perhaps hair?
Hello. What about increase in demand from Chinese customers?
Books that are all text can be just plain ASCII, or even HTML. Magazines, with all their pretty pictures and layouts, should have a typesetting format perhaps like pdf. No need to force a one size fits all on this.
It seems like the active, crazy Muslim population hates the passive, reasonable Muslims even more than they hate atheists. They'll totally murder you for being the wrong kind of Muslim.
I would not trade freedom of religion for freedom from Islam.
Anyone too free in their thinking is a crank or a mystic. Skepticism is good.
I hope for their sake that they have a team of lawyers assembled.
Surely it's criminal perjury to falsely claim an invention in a patent. Assholes who hire thugs (lawyers) to intimidate people should be tried and punished.
Although Foxconn is based in Taiwan, the factory examined in the article is in Shenzhen, China.
I'm not gonna argue with misery, but environmental destructiveness? You got to be kidding if you think subsistence farming is more environmentally destructive than building ipads.