I'm a physics postgrad student, so lots. Virtually all physicists rely on computers and they don't like to retire. Some of them are really onto things like issues about DRM and other current events.
I'm saying if you are reaching the end of your undergraduate degree, then do a PhD. It will take a long time to complete, during which time you can have a student copy of Mathematica. Of course, a decent university department should provide you with it if you need it anyway.
Although, my original post was just a joke about how PhDs can drag on into the distant future:-P
Since installing Oblivion, I've had real problems with games crashing under Windows. Oblivion would crash every 15 minutes or so, and nasty crashes too! Some of them would even reboot my machine! It's too frustrating to play now. I'm going to have a go installing it under Wine. I won't be able to have HDR, but at least the game might be playable.
Like Windows needs something else to make it more unstable...
I've had good experience with Asus. My laptop suddenly failed to detect the hard drive at boot-up a few months after I bought it. I rung up the help desk and they said to send in the laptop for them to look at. The guy asked me if I want them to recover Windows but I said no since I was running Linux. He didn't make an issue out of it at all. It turned out the hard drive was fine. It was the connection to the motherboard that got loose somehow (seems to be a common problem). I haven't had any problems since.
Most Windows users I know just don't care about what operating system they use and Windows is basically all they know. They think of Linux as something just for computer geeks, if they have heard of it at all. I have met very very few people who really *like* Windows.
1. The Gamer - Windows is a requirement to play most games, so it's the default OS of choice.
2. Your Parents - they don't really know much about computers and will use whatever the computer they bought came with.
3. Market Follower - M$ bitches.
4. The Windows Enthusiast - these people are extremely rare. They actively believe that M$ products are superior to anything else out there and believe that if something is free, there must be something wrong with it.
5. Scientists, Engineers, Professionals - use Windows due to vital software existing only on that platform.
While you need a MOT to make a BEC, it is only the initial trapping and cooling stage. To get to BEC, the atoms need to be cooled even more using evaporative cooling, which you cannot do in a MOT. You either evaporatively cool in a pure magnetic trap or in an optical dipole trap.
If you want to know more about BEC, Physics 2000 is a good place to start.
I live in New Zealand and I have asthma. My medical bills amount to about US $100 a year. I don't have insurance, but doctor's appointments cost me about US $3 a pop through my university. A few years ago I got hit by a car and ended up in the emergency room, ambulance ride and everything. No broken bones, thankfully, and it didn't cost me a cent - didn't cost the guy who hit me a cent either (He bought me a box of chocolates and paid to fix my bike. He was very sorry.).
Yay for socialized medicine!
Our system isn't perfect, but getting hospital treatment isn't going to put you in debt.
Don't expect this to be the Next Best Thing in CPU technology. The only foreseeable practical applications are in fundamental physics research, eg. precision measurements, and possibly quantum computing.
Quoting the paper, "The device is not optimized for performance but is arguably the simplest possible geometry showing behavior reminiscent of a transistor." This is just one of the first steps. Using BEC to make a functional quantum computer is a long way off.
I am a postgraduate student studying BEC, and I can tell you that what people are creating at the moment are building blocks - a qubit here, an atom beam splitter there, now a transistor. One day, we will be able to do something "practical" with all this stuff... for now it's just fun to play around with to see what we can do!
Papers are typically submitted to arxiv.org at the time of submission to a journal. If accepted, it usually appears in the particular journal several months later. The paper was published in Optics Letters just this week, though it was posted on arxiv.org in August:
http://ol.osa.org/abstract.cfm?id=119886
You have to keep in mind that before Arxiv.org papers (or any other pre-print archives) appear in a journal, you can't guaranteed that they have passed the peer-review process.
I find that having two computers running in an average sized bedroom + body heat of two people makes a comfortable environment in the winter. You can't walk around in a t-shirt, but you're not cold.
Now if only our house had insulation in the walls...
(Houses in New Zealand are notorious for having no insulation, so even though winters are more mild than on continents, you actually feel a lot colder inside)
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What about a subject like grammar? Is tenses still such a problem?
I'm a physics postgrad student, so lots. Virtually all physicists rely on computers and they don't like to retire. Some of them are really onto things like issues about DRM and other current events.
Although, my original post was just a joke about how PhDs can drag on into the distant future :-P
It's easy to get around that. Just do a PhD.
New Zealanders are really bad for using "orientate". I don't know how it started, but even reasonably educated people use it. It's terrible.
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Nah, it'll just get shelved in the "adult only" section of the video store with the other fetish stuff.
Since installing Oblivion, I've had real problems with games crashing under Windows. Oblivion would crash every 15 minutes or so, and nasty crashes too! Some of them would even reboot my machine! It's too frustrating to play now. I'm going to have a go installing it under Wine. I won't be able to have HDR, but at least the game might be playable. Like Windows needs something else to make it more unstable...
And after that, I format my hard drive and install Linux.
I think you've got that completely wrong.
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I've had good experience with Asus. My laptop suddenly failed to detect the hard drive at boot-up a few months after I bought it. I rung up the help desk and they said to send in the laptop for them to look at. The guy asked me if I want them to recover Windows but I said no since I was running Linux. He didn't make an issue out of it at all. It turned out the hard drive was fine. It was the connection to the motherboard that got loose somehow (seems to be a common problem). I haven't had any problems since.
Most Windows users I know just don't care about what operating system they use and Windows is basically all they know. They think of Linux as something just for computer geeks, if they have heard of it at all. I have met very very few people who really *like* Windows.
2. Your Parents - they don't really know much about computers and will use whatever the computer they bought came with.
3. Market Follower - M$ bitches.
4. The Windows Enthusiast - these people are extremely rare. They actively believe that M$ products are superior to anything else out there and believe that if something is free, there must be something wrong with it.
5. Scientists, Engineers, Professionals - use Windows due to vital software existing only on that platform.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id =2&objectid=10428695
Around the age of 12 or 13, kids get immunized against Hepatitis B. It's an STI, and yet there is no similar fuss.
If you want to know more about BEC, Physics 2000 is a good place to start.
Yay for socialized medicine!
Our system isn't perfect, but getting hospital treatment isn't going to put you in debt.
Quoting the paper, "The device is not optimized for performance but is arguably the simplest possible geometry showing behavior reminiscent of a transistor." This is just one of the first steps. Using BEC to make a functional quantum computer is a long way off.
I am a postgraduate student studying BEC, and I can tell you that what people are creating at the moment are building blocks - a qubit here, an atom beam splitter there, now a transistor. One day, we will be able to do something "practical" with all this stuff... for now it's just fun to play around with to see what we can do!
Here is the free pre-print: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0607706
I must point out String Theory Summarized from xkcd.
Even Celsius doesn't really make sense. We should all be using Kelvin.
This is no cave.
http://ol.osa.org/abstract.cfm?id=119886 You have to keep in mind that before Arxiv.org papers (or any other pre-print archives) appear in a journal, you can't guaranteed that they have passed the peer-review process.
Now if only our house had insulation in the walls...
(Houses in New Zealand are notorious for having no insulation, so even though winters are more mild than on continents, you actually feel a lot colder inside)