The famous cat is a virtual experiment where the cat's life depends on an electron arriving to the cat's cage in a certain state. E.g. if the spin is up - the cat lives, if the spin is down - the cat dies. Since the electron can be put into a "mixed" state where it's "somewhat" up and "somewhat" down, the cat is also in a mixed state of life and death.
Now they replaced the inhumane process of killing cats with just letting the cat hit Enter to run the program (instead of killing it). So now instead of "somewhat" dead cat you have a program that is "somewhat" runnning.
Funny article, but the authors seem to be good writers rather than analysts.
Google is not much different from any other company that brought a technological breakthrough. Everyone is excited about them the first 10-15 years, then they become big and slow.
Any large organization faces the same growth problem - it's very difficult to manage. Either it desintegrates or is transformed into something different may be keeping the name.
After reading the article, I figured out that even the rolling password will not help much with the phishing problem. Imagine the following scenario:
1. The user gets an e-mail asking him to log on to the bank site.
2. The user enters the code from the keyfob into the phishing site
3. Phishing site logs into the real banking site using just harvested code
4. Phishing site performs a transaction on the real site and ask the user for a code again to confirm the transaction.
So the users have false sense of security, bank still loses money (on top of the devices cost) and who is going to pay for it in the end? You think the bank is going to eat the cost?
Obviously to make a cell phone to replace a PC for some basic tasks you need a better screen/monitor.
I do not think DVI will get into a cell phone - it's just too bulky.
More likely somebody will come up with a bluetooth enabled monitor that can support VNC or X Windows type protocols.
While I am not MS fan at all, I am still convinced that if for some strange reason you decided to use Windows as your platform, a skillful system administrator can set it up to run quite reliably. With Oracle, Apache and the whole nine yards.
If they add a random noise to a picture, just avearge the samples and scale it down. Once tey get enough picture pixels revealed you will see the picture or some sort of it.
I do not think you can do a good toast on an ARM CPU. You need to have at least dual Pentium. And you have to go quadro if you want to do two slices at once.
250 million year old rabbit would just falsify you datimg method.
A dog giving birth to a bird would falsify all the DNA theories, but not really an evolution as a global process theory.
Scientists, for instance, can't build UFOs, nor can they go back 13.5 billion years ago and replay the Big Bang. What has to be repeatable is the observation.
Scientists, for instance, usually observe UFOs only on SciFi channel.
As for Big Bang, there are several drastically different models and everybody understands that they are just theories and some of them may be just more accurate than others based on observer consequences. But nobody makes an absolute of any single one of them.
For an observation to be repeatable you need to have a repeatable phenomenon. Which is not the case for evolution.
Odd, I've talked to molecular biologists and they insist that evolution did happen, that the genes of all extant organisms indicate that they fit into a nested hieararchy (as confirmation of what was already known from the fossil record).
Well, my sources told me that the problem is not with a nested hieararchy of DNA (which could be used in intelligent design as well). The main problem is the evolution of DNA itself. And molecular biologists (at least those that I talked to) admit that it's at least a gap in the theory. Where are the evolutionary ascendants of the DNA itself?
Finding a fossil of a human and a dinosaur right next to one another would do nicely.
At most it would prove that dinosaurs stayed longer than we thought.
And who was present when the intelligent designer(s) were at work? Where are their notebooks and documentation?
Nobody. That's why it's a theory. As worth of consideration as evolution.
You can further develop both theories (and come up with multiple designers if you want to).
As for an experiment, I would agree with other posters that evolution (and creationism) is more a philosophy than a science.
But both are on pretty much the same level regarding proofs and support.
That's why you should not blindly throw out one or another.
Second, in real science theories must be supported by a repeatable experiment with consistent result.
How can you prove a theory where not only the process cannot be reproduced but we do not even have a comprehensive record of the only occurance that we observed.
And after all, talking about scientific theories, ask molecular biologists what do they know about evolution of DNA. Some of them may tell you they believe it just "evolved", but that's an area of personal beliefs.
There are several reasons why stealing open source ideas will not bring you far. Besides obvoius legal consequences, there is a PR image. But most of all if all you have is stolen ideas, you will always be catching up with others.
First he was not the one who sent spam. He had a business that was promoted through spam. Not that it makes it less annoying.
Second, looking at the circumstances, it is likely that he just fell victim of a robbery not specifically targeted at his business, and very unlikely caused by his use of spammers.
Nobody is going to use it for surveying or steering a cruise missile. But if you want just to find out where the closest coffee shop is, you do not need to figure out your current location - even though it's quite easy - but that thing will just fill it in for you.
As for the accuracy - I am sure it's ising a more sophisticated approach than GPS - they may not even take the signal strength into account (or just use it as a minor factor).
They probably do a match between the discovered set of APs (I guess you can get MAC addresses or something) and figure out the most likely point where you would see such a set. There some interesting math behind it and it probably has nothing to do with triangulation.
Besides, their client is probably constantly updating the database, so new APs are added to it.
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Now they replaced the inhumane process of killing cats with just letting the cat hit Enter to run the program (instead of killing it). So now instead of "somewhat" dead cat you have a program that is "somewhat" runnning.
How to make a small fortune in the stock market? Start with a big one.
Want to increase efficiency over 100%? Start with a motor that has 40%, make one that is 80% efficient - you got 100% increase!
Any large organization faces the same growth problem - it's very difficult to manage. Either it desintegrates or is transformed into something different may be keeping the name.
Examples? IBM, Microsoft, Soviet Union.
I am generally healthy, not overweight, have not broken any bones. Pregnancy, huh? My wife has been pregnant two times, so that must be it!
1. The user gets an e-mail asking him to log on to the bank site.
2. The user enters the code from the keyfob into the phishing site
3. Phishing site logs into the real banking site using just harvested code
4. Phishing site performs a transaction on the real site and ask the user for a code again to confirm the transaction.
So the users have false sense of security, bank still loses money (on top of the devices cost) and who is going to pay for it in the end? You think the bank is going to eat the cost?
On the other hand - somebody steals the card and get everything in one piece.
More likely somebody will come up with a bluetooth enabled monitor that can support VNC or X Windows type protocols.
1. A robot must bring profit.
Although I doubt that this will fly on an enterprise level project.
But you get what you paid for.
If they add a random noise to a picture, just avearge the samples and scale it down. Once tey get enough picture pixels revealed you will see the picture or some sort of it.
San Andreas police cracked down on a car theft gang. 62 memory cards for PS2 seized.
Lucky Windows 3.0 users can be at ease.
I do not think you can do a good toast on an ARM CPU. You need to have at least dual Pentium. And you have to go quadro if you want to do two slices at once.
1. Take an app that has not been used on a portable device. ....
2. Patent the non-obvious and innovative solution.
3.
4. Profit!
Scientists, for instance, can't build UFOs, nor can they go back 13.5 billion years ago and replay the Big Bang. What has to be repeatable is the observation.
Scientists, for instance, usually observe UFOs only on SciFi channel. As for Big Bang, there are several drastically different models and everybody understands that they are just theories and some of them may be just more accurate than others based on observer consequences. But nobody makes an absolute of any single one of them.
For an observation to be repeatable you need to have a repeatable phenomenon. Which is not the case for evolution.
Odd, I've talked to molecular biologists and they insist that evolution did happen, that the genes of all extant organisms indicate that they fit into a nested hieararchy (as confirmation of what was already known from the fossil record).
Well, my sources told me that the problem is not with a nested hieararchy of DNA (which could be used in intelligent design as well). The main problem is the evolution of DNA itself. And molecular biologists (at least those that I talked to) admit that it's at least a gap in the theory. Where are the evolutionary ascendants of the DNA itself?
At most it would prove that dinosaurs stayed longer than we thought.
And who was present when the intelligent designer(s) were at work? Where are their notebooks and documentation?
Nobody. That's why it's a theory. As worth of consideration as evolution.
You can further develop both theories (and come up with multiple designers if you want to).
As for an experiment, I would agree with other posters that evolution (and creationism) is more a philosophy than a science. But both are on pretty much the same level regarding proofs and support. That's why you should not blindly throw out one or another.
Second, in real science theories must be supported by a repeatable experiment with consistent result. How can you prove a theory where not only the process cannot be reproduced but we do not even have a comprehensive record of the only occurance that we observed.
And after all, talking about scientific theories, ask molecular biologists what do they know about evolution of DNA. Some of them may tell you they believe it just "evolved", but that's an area of personal beliefs.
There are several reasons why stealing open source ideas will not bring you far. Besides obvoius legal consequences, there is a PR image. But most of all if all you have is stolen ideas, you will always be catching up with others.
Second, looking at the circumstances, it is likely that he just fell victim of a robbery not specifically targeted at his business, and very unlikely caused by his use of spammers.
As for the accuracy - I am sure it's ising a more sophisticated approach than GPS - they may not even take the signal strength into account (or just use it as a minor factor).
They probably do a match between the discovered set of APs (I guess you can get MAC addresses or something) and figure out the most likely point where you would see such a set. There some interesting math behind it and it probably has nothing to do with triangulation.
Besides, their client is probably constantly updating the database, so new APs are added to it.
... and may be a hyperspace transportation!
Or am I late already?
It will not help you get up in the morning, but you will be able to consume 30% more food in 30% less time.