i think you can make your own computer into a cellphone if you get a certain type of adapter, like the ones this comany sells. i think you just need to get a SIM card and plug it in. and you'll need to find/write some software, i'm sure.
and gumstix makes a variety of very small linux computers.
now you'll need some type of interface thing. not sure about the hardware, but you could find something that works with qtopia
granted, $10 says the end-result doesnt fit in your pocket.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but some sort of ZFS driver is in the Linux kernel
i dont think there is (could be wrong). something about a licensing problem. but apparently some people have gotten it to work in linux using FUSE. (more info)
Linux: Edit some obscure text file hidden away in the file system.
if you're in Gnome: System->Preferences->Screen Resolution and select your resolution from the drop down list. how bout that, the thing is actually named screen resolution.
windows: Start->Control Panel->Display->Settings and select your screen resolution from the slider bar at the bottom left.
i believe most of these mind-controlled-computer devices kind of work the way you move parts of your body, not the way you think. so you feel like you're moving your arm, but the nerves are connected to a computer.
to accidentally IM someone would be like accidentally punching them. it happens, but i wouldnt lose sleep over it.
perhaps because the ultimate answer is the only possible solution. someone once said something to the effect of "I like to believe that god didnt have a choice."
or perhaps people dont answer that question because it's like the child who keeps asking why, even after you've already explained it. no matter what answer i give you, you could still ask why.
i pay when i feel it is deserved. every song on my MP3 player was legally purchased. i bought the DVD of Prestige recently, because i loved the movie. i do have plently of other downloaded movies, though, that i watched once and will probably never watch again. i'm not playing $20 for a movie i dont know is worth it yet. and i have no idea where the closest rental place is.
1. Pirate Bay, one of the flagships of the anti-copyright movement, makes thousands of euros from advertising on its site, while maintaining its anti-establishment "free music" rhetoric.
dont care
2. AllOfMP3.com, the well-known Russian web site, has not been licensed by a single IFPI member, has been disowned by right holder groups worldwide and is facing criminal proceedings in Russia.
dont care
3. Organized criminal gangs and even terrorist groups use the sale of counterfeit CDs to raise revenue and launder money.
fuck you. just, fuck you.
4. Illegal file-sharers don't care whether the copyright-infringing work they distribute is from a major or independent label.
probably true.
5. Reduced revenues for record companies mean less money available to take a risk on "underground" artists and more inclination to invest in "bankers" like American Idol stars.
ok, then, i'll stop listening to band that are trying to "make it big", in addition to the ones that have already made it big. wait, i already did that. next?
6. ISPs often advertise music as a benefit of signing up to their service, but facilitate the illegal swapping on copyright infringing music on a grand scale.
dont care
7. The anti-copyright movement does not create jobs, exports, tax revenues and economic growth-it largely consists of people pontificating on a commercial world about which they know little.
k. never heard anyone argue that it did.
8. Piracy is not caused by poverty. Professor Zhang of Nanjing University found the Chinese citizens who bought pirate products were mainly middle- or higher-income earners.
big shocker there.
9. Most people know it is wrong to file-share copyright infringing material but won't stop till the law makes them, according to a recent study by the Australian anti-piracy group MIPI.
yup.
10. P2P networks are not hotbeds for discovering new music. It is popular music that is illegally file-shared most frequently.
the state of the second particle doesnt change. period.
there is 1 wave function. you're not observing one of the particles, you're collapsing the wave function.
when you first entangled the two particles, you made it so that they both had to have the same property. and you sent one of the particles to your buddy. because you were careful about sending it, and making sure it didnt bump anything else, you know that they still have to have the same property. you dont know what that property is yet, because you havent looked. then, you look.
this is exactly like taking two balls, a red and blue one. you mix them up and mail one to your buddy, without looking at either one. you know that if you look at yours and it's red, then your buddy's must be blue. but you havent looked yet.
now stop. dont think ahead. the two situations are exactly the same. now move ahead, and everytime you find yourself wondering how the first particle affects the second, remember the red and blue balls.
answer me this. if absolutely everything about you was copied and recreated in another location, how could you possibly not be in that new location? if you're not, that means you missed copying something.
hey might be identical, but they're not the same person.
in quantum mechains, there is no such thing as "the same particle". there is only quantities of particles.
say you have one hydrogen atom, with one electron. one second later you still have a hydrogen atom and it still has 1 election. you cannot say that its electon is the same as it was before. 1 electron is nothing but a quantity. you cannot say "this electron."
want proof? keep looking at that electron. poof, it's gone. it has literally disappeared into nonexistence, obliterated by a positron. and what's this, now? a positron and electron pair have appeared out of thin air that look surprisingly like the ones that dissappeared a moment ago, except this was billions of light years away.
and look again at this electron, which is now occupying a higher orbit around the nucleus of an atom. keep watching. boom, it just dissappeard, and another electron appeared out of thin air occupying a lower orbit than before. and this happened instantaneously.
also, in your last paragraph you're describing consciousness/sentience. that's a topic for another discussion.
Van Esch is describing how to set up a 2-part communications system that involves entanglement and a classicial channel. he's not explaing why you cant just use entanglement (or at least he's not doing a very good job of it).
the fundamental reason you cant use entanglement to send info FTL is because the aspect in which the particles are entangled is one you have no control over. the only way to send data would be to control what state the particle collapses into, and you cant do that. what you would try to do is first observe what state the particle is in (collapsing the wave function), and then either keep the same state or change it to the other state, so that it's in the state you want it. but if you change its state that doesnt have any effect on the other particle. so you cant send info.
to have a 2-part communcations system that involves entanglement and a classical channel, you send one of the photons to your buddy. you observe what state your photon is in, then you tell your buddy if it's the state you were looking for or the opposite of what you were looking for. both you and your buddy will observe the same state in the photons, but neither of you can control what that state is.
the problem people have grasping this is that they think of each of the photons as having their own wave function, and that when you observe one the other one instantaneously collapses and aligns with the first one. that's not what happens. there is only 1 wave function, and it involves both particles. the other particle does not align with the first when you observe the first, it was already aligned. it became aligned when you first entangled them at the original location.
make no mistake people. when you observe your particle, absolutely nothing is being sent to the other particle.
eh, not really, from what i understand. the grey area is in the definition of "affecting" the other particle. observing one doesnt really affect the other, in the normal sense of the word.
one way people think of it is that, say there are an infinite amount of possible states for the particle. what there really is is an infinite amount of universes, and each universe has 1 particular state of the particle. and in each universe, the state of that particle matches the state of the particle it's entangled with.
before observing the particle, all the universes blur together. when you observe your particle, it doesnt affect the other, it affects everything. all the universes except one disappear into nothingness. and, as before, it just so happens that in this universe that has become real, both the particles are tied together, so both of them now have a real single state that matches somehow, and not the blurring of infinite states as before.
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but M$ means something. the dollar sign was chosen for a reason. what exactly is "Linuzzz" supposed to mean?
you might already be able to do that.
i think you can make your own computer into a cellphone if you get a certain type of adapter, like the ones this comany sells. i think you just need to get a SIM card and plug it in. and you'll need to find/write some software, i'm sure.
and gumstix makes a variety of very small linux computers.
now you'll need some type of interface thing. not sure about the hardware, but you could find something that works with qtopia
granted, $10 says the end-result doesnt fit in your pocket.
i other words, a better headline would have been "New Game in Development, Somewhat Related to SimCity"
windows: Start->Control Panel->Display->Settings and select your screen resolution from the slider bar at the bottom left.
my thoughts exactly. saying "Tele Vista" in my head rings no bells in Windows' direction. sounds like "television".
that's me, though, things might not be the same in france.
i'm sure there are plenty of products named Vista. it is a real word, afterall.
i have some magic beans i'd like to sell you.
aaaaaaggghhhh everytime i look at my wife the goatse guy pops up in the corner of my vision
i believe most of these mind-controlled-computer devices kind of work the way you move parts of your body, not the way you think. so you feel like you're moving your arm, but the nerves are connected to a computer.
to accidentally IM someone would be like accidentally punching them. it happens, but i wouldnt lose sleep over it.
perhaps because the ultimate answer is the only possible solution. someone once said something to the effect of "I like to believe that god didnt have a choice."
or perhaps people dont answer that question because it's like the child who keeps asking why, even after you've already explained it. no matter what answer i give you, you could still ask why.
i pay when i feel it is deserved. every song on my MP3 player was legally purchased. i bought the DVD of Prestige recently, because i loved the movie. i do have plently of other downloaded movies, though, that i watched once and will probably never watch again. i'm not playing $20 for a movie i dont know is worth it yet. and i have no idea where the closest rental place is.
so, in conclusion, dont care
it is entirely possible that my actions are unfairly hurting the recording and/or motion picture industry. and i couldnt care less.
the state of the second particle doesnt change. period.
there is 1 wave function. you're not observing one of the particles, you're collapsing the wave function.
when you first entangled the two particles, you made it so that they both had to have the same property. and you sent one of the particles to your buddy. because you were careful about sending it, and making sure it didnt bump anything else, you know that they still have to have the same property. you dont know what that property is yet, because you havent looked. then, you look.
this is exactly like taking two balls, a red and blue one. you mix them up and mail one to your buddy, without looking at either one. you know that if you look at yours and it's red, then your buddy's must be blue. but you havent looked yet.
now stop. dont think ahead. the two situations are exactly the same. now move ahead, and everytime you find yourself wondering how the first particle affects the second, remember the red and blue balls.
answer me this. if absolutely everything about you was copied and recreated in another location, how could you possibly not be in that new location? if you're not, that means you missed copying something.
say you have one hydrogen atom, with one electron. one second later you still have a hydrogen atom and it still has 1 election. you cannot say that its electon is the same as it was before. 1 electron is nothing but a quantity. you cannot say "this electron."
want proof? keep looking at that electron. poof, it's gone. it has literally disappeared into nonexistence, obliterated by a positron. and what's this, now? a positron and electron pair have appeared out of thin air that look surprisingly like the ones that dissappeared a moment ago, except this was billions of light years away.
and look again at this electron, which is now occupying a higher orbit around the nucleus of an atom. keep watching. boom, it just dissappeard, and another electron appeared out of thin air occupying a lower orbit than before. and this happened instantaneously.
also, in your last paragraph you're describing consciousness/sentience. that's a topic for another discussion.
Van Esch is describing how to set up a 2-part communications system that involves entanglement and a classicial channel. he's not explaing why you cant just use entanglement (or at least he's not doing a very good job of it).
the fundamental reason you cant use entanglement to send info FTL is because the aspect in which the particles are entangled is one you have no control over. the only way to send data would be to control what state the particle collapses into, and you cant do that. what you would try to do is first observe what state the particle is in (collapsing the wave function), and then either keep the same state or change it to the other state, so that it's in the state you want it. but if you change its state that doesnt have any effect on the other particle. so you cant send info.
to have a 2-part communcations system that involves entanglement and a classical channel, you send one of the photons to your buddy. you observe what state your photon is in, then you tell your buddy if it's the state you were looking for or the opposite of what you were looking for. both you and your buddy will observe the same state in the photons, but neither of you can control what that state is.
the problem people have grasping this is that they think of each of the photons as having their own wave function, and that when you observe one the other one instantaneously collapses and aligns with the first one. that's not what happens. there is only 1 wave function, and it involves both particles. the other particle does not align with the first when you observe the first, it was already aligned. it became aligned when you first entangled them at the original location.
make no mistake people. when you observe your particle, absolutely nothing is being sent to the other particle.
* i mean, you cant create entanglement at a distance
hey guess what? fuck you.
no, you actually have to send a photon. you can create entanglement at a distance. you create it locally, then send the photon.
eh, not really, from what i understand. the grey area is in the definition of "affecting" the other particle. observing one doesnt really affect the other, in the normal sense of the word.
one way people think of it is that, say there are an infinite amount of possible states for the particle. what there really is is an infinite amount of universes, and each universe has 1 particular state of the particle. and in each universe, the state of that particle matches the state of the particle it's entangled with.
before observing the particle, all the universes blur together. when you observe your particle, it doesnt affect the other, it affects everything. all the universes except one disappear into nothingness. and, as before, it just so happens that in this universe that has become real, both the particles are tied together, so both of them now have a real single state that matches somehow, and not the blurring of infinite states as before.