Thank you. The Poul Anderson book is the one I was thinking of - still can't think of the blasted title though.
As for the ST:TNG case... The original Riker was destroyed when he stepped onto the platform, and when he was beamed up from the planet. That was a case of duplicate creation upon reciept, not non-destruction of the original.
I'm thinking of the older story. I can almost see the blasted cover art in my mind, but can't think of the title or author. The story starts with people being "teleported" to the stars. They remain on Earth though. A copy of them is made and sent out to the interstellar colony. The people then go about their life on Earth and, unbenkownst to the "original", as infinite-use slave labor on the interstellar colony.
Every other reply has missed the point entirely.
Teleporting with destroying the original is cloning! The original remains, and an exact duplicate steps out of the receiving station.
err... Can you name a sci-fi implementation of teleportation that doesn't destroy the "original"? There is one that I know of - just can't think of the frelling name.
This process allows you to copy quantum information from one set of atoms to another without measuring it, and thereby destroying it.
It's still isn't anywhere near dematerializing the matter and poof`ing it across the room/planet. However, what is happening is the quantum information (in this case, the spin state) of the matter has been instantly transported. That is a essential step in building a quantum computer or cryptography network.
Arthur C. Clarke, "Electromagnetic Launching as a Major Contribution to Space Flight", Journal British Interplanetary Society, Vol. 9, No. 6, Nov 1950.
The state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma.
Whereas a psychosis is a mental disorder characterized by symptoms, such as delusions or hallucinations, that indicate impaired contact with reality. What I originally described barely resembles psychosis. I mentioned no "breaks from reality", only being enslaved to a habit - such that cessation causes trauma.
Just because you use something often doesn't mean it's an addiction.
Do you derive great satisfaction solely from driving your car, and increasingly think only of your next opportunity to drive the longer it has been since your last drive? Do you start fidgeting and having nervous fits the longer you are away from your car?
Do other areas of your life start to suffer because you are out driving your car, for no other reason than to simply be driving?
Assume you are on vacation, are fully stocked up on supplies and have no reason to leave your domicile for two weeks; anything you could possibly need will be delivered and you will be taken anywhere you want to go. Could you go the entire time without driving your car, even though is immeadiately available to you?
Addiction is not constant use - it is the overwhelming NEED (psychological and/or physical) to have an item, action, experience, etc... and the overwhelming loss & emptiness experienced during the interim.
The war instantly took Iraq's oil off the market and kept it off. That's about 15-20% of total world production.
Iraq's oil production has never exceeded 4.5% of the world total in the past 26 years. The invasion only caused a moderately significant (35%) drop in production during the first year. Full production resumed the next year.
The US imports from Iraq only accounted for 5.2% of the total in 2005. The highest amount, in the past 6 years, was 8.5% in 2001. The US imports from Canada & Mexico were 46% more than the imports from the entire Persian Gulf in 2005.
First the consumer pay for a product (the physical DVD), then the consumer pays for a service (transfering the contents of the DVD to their portable player). It is exactly like paying for home installation service for the product (TV, stove, washer/dryer, etc...) that was just purchased.
On February 4, 2004, the U.S. House of Representatives voted for provisions in a social services bill that allow religiously based job discrimination in publicly funded programs run by churches.
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
Ahh... A solution must work perfectly for everybody in all situations or its worthless.
A solution that alleviates a large part of the problem isn't acceptable because it doesn't work for a certain small group of people.
If the majority of the commuting populace are productively using pure-electric vehicles, then ethanol production might be able to meet the demands of the "long haul" drivers. There is also the possibility of quick-charge stations that have the electrical capacity to top off a battery pack in 15 minutes.
Nope - scrap it all. Pure-electric vehicles aren't perfect for everybody so we should just completely forget about them.
Your car sits in the parking lot all day long. Why does it matter that it would take 100x as long to "top off"? While you're at work, it charges.
There was a lot of infrastructure that had to be built before (ICE) cars became practical for the general populace. Should we've stuck with the horse & buggy because those funky horseless carriages required millions of miles of paved roads to be constructed (ref), an entire new industry dedicated to refining this new-fangled "gasoline", and tens of thousands of distribution stations built?
Biometric scanning should be used for nothing more than a quick & automated method of stating, not proving, identity. Biometric data is not secret - just like a name is not secret. Both can still be used as low-security identifiers though. Simply because I state that I am "George W. Bush" or "Tom Cruise" does not make it so.
One Time Pads do provide perfect encryption - if they are generated properly. There is one slight problem though - how do the communicating parties exchange the OTPs? The only 'secure' method is to do it in person.
Another problem is the finite usability of an OTP. Once the OTP has been generated, it can only be used for an amount of data transfer equal to the size of the OTP before a new OTP needs to be exchanged.
They can stop the sellers from even mentioning that they accept anything but PayPal & standard offline payment methods though. All in the name of a Safe Payments Policy.
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Thank you. The Poul Anderson book is the one I was thinking of - still can't think of the blasted title though.
As for the ST:TNG case...
The original Riker was destroyed when he stepped onto the platform, and when he was beamed up from the planet. That was a case of duplicate creation upon reciept, not non-destruction of the original.
I'm thinking of the older story. I can almost see the blasted cover art in my mind, but can't think of the title or author. The story starts with people being "teleported" to the stars. They remain on Earth though. A copy of them is made and sent out to the interstellar colony. The people then go about their life on Earth and, unbenkownst to the "original", as infinite-use slave labor on the interstellar colony.
Every other reply has missed the point entirely.
Teleporting with destroying the original is cloning! The original remains, and an exact duplicate steps out of the receiving station.
Sort of.
You have to transfer information from one document to another. If you look it, or measure in any way, the original - it is instantly destroyed.
This method allows you to transfer the information without measuring (i.e. destroying) it.
err... Can you name a sci-fi implementation of teleportation that doesn't destroy the "original"? There is one that I know of - just can't think of the frelling name.
In almost all given cases (e.g. Star Trek), the teleporter destroys the "original".
Why would the teleported object melt into goo rather than simply vanishing in a de-atomized puff?
This process allows you to copy quantum information from one set of atoms to another without measuring it, and thereby destroying it.
It's still isn't anywhere near dematerializing the matter and poof`ing it across the room/planet. However, what is happening is the quantum information (in this case, the spin state) of the matter has been instantly transported. That is a essential step in building a quantum computer or cryptography network.
Here is Scientific American's article on the matter.
First Teleportation Between Light and Matter
Ealiest reference found:
Arthur C. Clarke, "Electromagnetic Launching as a Major Contribution to Space Flight", Journal British Interplanetary Society, Vol. 9, No. 6, Nov 1950.
This is a decades old concept.
Direct launch using the electric rail gun
In APL The 1983 JANNAF Propulsion Meeting
A better implementation than the artist's conception that I've previously heard of, was to build the rail gun into a tall mountain.
The primary reason was to help get above the bulk of the atmosphere, but it also has the added benefit of being extremely secure.
The amount being sought is a blank check from Time Warner.
"We want 37 kajillion dollars."
addiction
Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.0.1), Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
Whereas a psychosis is a mental disorder characterized by symptoms, such as delusions or hallucinations, that indicate impaired contact with reality. What I originally described barely resembles psychosis. I mentioned no "breaks from reality", only being enslaved to a habit - such that cessation causes trauma.
Do you derive great satisfaction solely from driving your car, and increasingly think only of your next opportunity to drive the longer it has been since your last drive? Do you start fidgeting and having nervous fits the longer you are away from your car?
Do other areas of your life start to suffer because you are out driving your car, for no other reason than to simply be driving?
Assume you are on vacation, are fully stocked up on supplies and have no reason to leave your domicile for two weeks; anything you could possibly need will be delivered and you will be taken anywhere you want to go. Could you go the entire time without driving your car, even though is immeadiately available to you?
Addiction is not constant use - it is the overwhelming NEED (psychological and/or physical) to have an item, action, experience, etc... and the overwhelming loss & emptiness experienced during the interim.
Iraq's oil production has never exceeded 4.5% of the world total in the past 26 years. The invasion only caused a moderately significant (35%) drop in production during the first year. Full production resumed the next year.
The US imports from Iraq only accounted for 5.2% of the total in 2005. The highest amount, in the past 6 years, was 8.5% in 2001.
The US imports from Canada & Mexico were 46% more than the imports from the entire Persian Gulf in 2005.
International Petroleum (Oil) Production
"All Countries, Years 1980-2004"
U.S. Imports by Country of Origin
First the consumer pay for a product (the physical DVD), then the consumer pays for a service (transfering the contents of the DVD to their portable player). It is exactly like paying for home installation service for the product (TV, stove, washer/dryer, etc...) that was just purchased.
White House Faith-Based Initiatives
Faith Based Initiative - Transformation from Secular to Religious Government
On February 4, 2004, the U.S. House of Representatives voted for provisions in a social services bill that allow religiously based job discrimination in publicly funded programs run by churches.
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
- Robert Frost
Ahh... A solution must work perfectly for everybody in all situations or its worthless.
A solution that alleviates a large part of the problem isn't acceptable because it doesn't work for a certain small group of people.
If the majority of the commuting populace are productively using pure-electric vehicles, then ethanol production might be able to meet the demands of the "long haul" drivers. There is also the possibility of quick-charge stations that have the electrical capacity to top off a battery pack in 15 minutes.
Nope - scrap it all. Pure-electric vehicles aren't perfect for everybody so we should just completely forget about them.
Your car sits in the parking lot all day long. Why does it matter that it would take 100x as long to "top off"? While you're at work, it charges.
There was a lot of infrastructure that had to be built before (ICE) cars became practical for the general populace. Should we've stuck with the horse & buggy because those funky horseless carriages required millions of miles of paved roads to be constructed (ref), an entire new industry dedicated to refining this new-fangled "gasoline", and tens of thousands of distribution stations built?
Exactly.
Biometric scanning should be used for nothing more than a quick & automated method of stating, not proving, identity. Biometric data is not secret - just like a name is not secret. Both can still be used as low-security identifiers though. Simply because I state that I am "George W. Bush" or "Tom Cruise" does not make it so.
One Time Pads do provide perfect encryption - if they are generated properly. There is one slight problem though - how do the communicating parties exchange the OTPs? The only 'secure' method is to do it in person.
Another problem is the finite usability of an OTP. Once the OTP has been generated, it can only be used for an amount of data transfer equal to the size of the OTP before a new OTP needs to be exchanged.
will corporate America still be able to afford to apply for 10's of thousands of trivial patents?
Yes. It will follow the same process that spamming does. They only need a marginal rate of return to jusitfy the expense.
$50,000/patent * 1000 patents = $50 million
One successful patent litigation = $500 million award
That is a 1000% return on investment.
They can then use the other 999 patents as leverage to bargain with the other large corporations.
I whole-heartedly agree with point #1 though.
Since when has MS released year-named products before that year?
Windows 98 release date - June 25, 1998
Windows 2000 release date - Feb 17, 2000
Office 2003 release date - Oct. 21, 2003
> They can't stop you from paying with gbuy
They can stop the sellers from even mentioning that they accept anything but PayPal & standard offline payment methods though. All in the name of a Safe Payments Policy.
I'm not a geek then, because I've never replied to a tagline before.
Only if they use their patent to stop someone from doing something.
For instance, Barnes & Noble?