All particles have an associated spin, just as all particles have an associated net charge.
Spintronic devices make use of the spin of electrons. Whence, Spintronics.
Your straw man needs to go see the Wizard....
I guess, however, I can't expect too much from someone who thinks this sort of thinly-veiled, childish insult is a good way to wrap up an argument.
Perhaps I misinterpreted your response, but he was not implying straw man as in "if I only had a brain", but rather the rhetorical fallacy.
And I thought the wizard part was actually pretty funny, no so much childish.
I mean come on... besides the all-caps speculation, what leads you to believe that this morning's event is in any way connected to your misfortunes?
1,200 out of some 26m eBay users is a vanishingly small minority anyhow...
"Energy" in the context of containing a plasma is actually work. They have the same units, so they're like exchangeable currencies (i.e. some energy will buy you work, and some negative work will buy you energy)
The energy that a plasma intrinsically has (like kinetic energy) is just that; energy.
Here's a related (but certainly not airtight) analogy: A brick can have some gravitational potential energy relative to the earth's surface. If you're standing on the ground, that brick will have some nominal gravitational potential energy. If you lift that brick 1 meter, you'll do some amount of work. If you're hanging over the edge of a helicopter at a couple hundred meters, that brick has substantially higher gravitational potential energy. However, if you lift the brick a distance of 1 meter, you'll still do the same amount of work.
So, what's going on here is that a plasma can indeed have a lot of energy (relative to the earth's environment). However, the "energy" we're putting in is actually work to contain that plasma.
Its not the corporate scam that you're trying to paint is as. The fact of the matter is that without patents on tech like this, there's no monetary incentive (which is just as important, sadly, as the intellectual incentive) to continue the R&D.
Besides, the patent will go to the university, I believe.
I've been coding since 7th grade. I have long been interested in all aspects of computing, from system administration, to nitty-gritty algorithm analysis. I also love chemistry, physics, astronomy, and mathematics.
However, one thing I have learned is that you don't need a CS/IT degree to work in the field.
I'm going to be a Junior this coming fall at a reputable university, and I have chosen to study Physics. That's not to say that I won't take some computer science classes (I'd recommend some exposure to data structures, and Operating Systems/System programming), but I will get my degree in Physics.
I work a at a web design place (yeah I know its not kernel hacking, but I'm 19). I do backend development on their proprietary framework every day. There are other quite technical employees at my work that don't have degrees in computer science either. One of them has an english degree!
Conversely, I have also met computer science graduates who are quite conceptually void in the art of computers.
So, what I'm saying is that it's much harder to be a self-taught physicist, or chemist, for example, whereas anyone with a computer made in the last 10 years could learn computer science on their own (and with a little help from university). So, do something interesting and challenging, and you'll leave many doors open.
Yeah but you're missing the point. The goal is not to block ALL bt traffic, it is rather to block those exchanges that are illegal, and still allow the legal. So, as dintech said, if you encrypt the packets, it would be tremendously more difficult to apply AudibleMagic or whatever. My guess would be that they would just block all encrypted traffic in the bt protocol.
You can't actually transmit information using entanglement. IAANP (...yet; two more years and I won't require this disclaimer), but let me say, there is indeed a way to transmit information using entanglement. In quantum crypto it's possible to transmit what is essentially a one-time-pad encryption key using entangled photons. The two communicators agree in advance on a certain attribute to investigate (and what the resultant state shall represent in binary). Then as either of the communicators "read" their photons, they will obtain the same key as their colleague regardless of when or where said colleague "reads" their own.
There's a catch, though. In order for the photons to be entangled, they (AFAIK) must be created in the same timespace coordinate. Thus, assuming the communicators are not in the same position, the photons still must be physically sent to their respective recipients. Nonetheless, the information isn't "sent" (if you will allow it) until the communicators have "read" the particles.
The problem with this is that grades are crucial in determining who has learned what. For instance, if every high school/college student was simply "graded" on a pass/fail basis, how would colleges/graduate schools know whom to admit? SAT scores won't work because they're to a certain extent biased.
IIRC, UC Santa Cruz was on a credit/no credit grading system for a long time, and the students who wanted to pursue graduate degrees had nothing to show for their first four years of college!
Anyone that says you are stealing a TV show that AIRED is so full of it they stink. the show was created, they got paid for it, the broadcaster got paid for airing it by the commercials that aired during it. THEY ALL GOT THEIR MONEY.
You're missing the point. If the material is easily obtainable online (albeit illegally), the "broadcasters" will loose their audience, and advertising time on air becomes less valuable. The ad revenue is consequently diminished and guess what?
THEY DIDN'T ALL GET THEIR MONEY.
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All particles have an associated spin, just as all particles have an associated net charge.
Spintronic devices make use of the spin of electrons. Whence, Spintronics.
One might find, after reading the full summary, that Chris Comer is actually a she.
I guess, however, I can't expect too much from someone who thinks this sort of thinly-veiled, childish insult is a good way to wrap up an argument.
Perhaps I misinterpreted your response, but he was not implying straw man as in "if I only had a brain", but rather the rhetorical fallacy.
And I thought the wizard part was actually pretty funny, no so much childish.
I wish I had mod points, but then I wouldn't know whether to mod you funny or insightful.
ahem... HDDVD?
I think the sheer volume alone is illustrative of the weight of the outcry against it.
FUD much?
I mean come on... besides the all-caps speculation, what leads you to believe that this morning's event is in any way connected to your misfortunes?
1,200 out of some 26m eBay users is a vanishingly small minority anyhow...
As it happens, I've got a photo right here.
Been using this technique for years, actually.
"Energy" in the context of containing a plasma is actually work. They have the same units, so they're like exchangeable currencies (i.e. some energy will buy you work, and some negative work will buy you energy)
The energy that a plasma intrinsically has (like kinetic energy) is just that; energy.
Here's a related (but certainly not airtight) analogy: A brick can have some gravitational potential energy relative to the earth's surface. If you're standing on the ground, that brick will have some nominal gravitational potential energy. If you lift that brick 1 meter, you'll do some amount of work. If you're hanging over the edge of a helicopter at a couple hundred meters, that brick has substantially higher gravitational potential energy. However, if you lift the brick a distance of 1 meter, you'll still do the same amount of work.
So, what's going on here is that a plasma can indeed have a lot of energy (relative to the earth's environment). However, the "energy" we're putting in is actually work to contain that plasma.
money flows like this:
consumer->provider
who's paying whom here?
I suppose, definitively, one.
We'd still have to colonize even if we were said matrix-machine people.
Or does your computer run on imagination?
'nuff said.
The pound is a unit of force. It's metric equivalent would be the Newton. The British Engineering unit for mass is called the slug, which is ~14.6kg.
Its not the corporate scam that you're trying to paint is as. The fact of the matter is that without patents on tech like this, there's no monetary incentive (which is just as important, sadly, as the intellectual incentive) to continue the R&D. Besides, the patent will go to the university, I believe.
Come on man, give credit where it's due. Eberlin flowed that originally in this thread
I've been coding since 7th grade. I have long been interested in all aspects of computing, from system administration, to nitty-gritty algorithm analysis. I also love chemistry, physics, astronomy, and mathematics.
However, one thing I have learned is that you don't need a CS/IT degree to work in the field.
I'm going to be a Junior this coming fall at a reputable university, and I have chosen to study Physics. That's not to say that I won't take some computer science classes (I'd recommend some exposure to data structures, and Operating Systems/System programming), but I will get my degree in Physics.
I work a at a web design place (yeah I know its not kernel hacking, but I'm 19). I do backend development on their proprietary framework every day. There are other quite technical employees at my work that don't have degrees in computer science either. One of them has an english degree!
Conversely, I have also met computer science graduates who are quite conceptually void in the art of computers.
So, what I'm saying is that it's much harder to be a self-taught physicist, or chemist, for example, whereas anyone with a computer made in the last 10 years could learn computer science on their own (and with a little help from university). So, do something interesting and challenging, and you'll leave many doors open.
Yeah but you're missing the point. The goal is not to block ALL bt traffic, it is rather to block those exchanges that are illegal, and still allow the legal.
So, as dintech said, if you encrypt the packets, it would be tremendously more difficult to apply AudibleMagic or whatever.
My guess would be that they would just block all encrypted traffic in the bt protocol.
There's a catch, though. In order for the photons to be entangled, they (AFAIK) must be created in the same timespace coordinate. Thus, assuming the communicators are not in the same position, the photons still must be physically sent to their respective recipients. Nonetheless, the information isn't "sent" (if you will allow it) until the communicators have "read" the particles.
Why did they have to go all the way to the moon in order to propose a climate monitoring station? Besides, where would be put such a station?
Dangling modifiers, anyone?
looks like it was ripped from ICTCM.
The problem with this is that grades are crucial in determining who has learned what.
For instance, if every high school/college student was simply "graded" on a pass/fail basis, how would colleges/graduate schools know whom to admit? SAT scores won't work because they're to a certain extent biased.
IIRC, UC Santa Cruz was on a credit/no credit grading system for a long time, and the students who wanted to pursue graduate degrees had nothing to show for their first four years of college!
Didn't even see anything on there about blackwatch plaid... psh
THEY DIDN'T ALL GET THEIR MONEY.
What are you talking about "get it out in the field"? Its research, not "Particle acclerator 3d microscopic embryo scanner, order yours today!"