but how can that be? the output of an experiment will be very different depending on when the wave function collapses. in the dual-slit, if it collapses before the slits you get two lines, and if it collapses after the slit you'll get an interference pattern. if the rock "observes" the photon before the slits, does the wave function collapse? if so, then what is it about the rock that can make the wave function collapse, when other solid objects (like a half-silvered mirror/glass in other quantum experiments) fail to collapse it?
what if you have two observers, one before and one after the slits, and they are completely out of contact? will the one after the slits see an interference pattern?
there's also the consciousness causes collapse theory, which is, granted, not as well received. while it certainly is more out there, it seems to me to be the theory with the fewest holes.
the CCC theory basically resolves and explains quantum mechanics, but it shifts the questions over to the topic of consciousness, which has yet to be understood at even a basic level.
he's said specifically that he's not using wine. whether or not he could, i dunno.
he apparently was going to be making a general Direct X wrapper, including DX9, but changed it to only DX10, saying that Wine was already doing a good job with DX9 so there wasnt much of a point.
yup. from what i gather, many who entered the program are pissed because they payed $50 and have seen nothing come out of it yet. and this release seems to be nothing more than him trying to prove that he's actually working on it. it's not very functional.
i really hope he does succeed though. we really need something like this.
i'm liking Metisse a lot. i only played with it a little, but it seemed to be actually useful eye candy. dont get me wrong, i like compiz/beryl, but it doesnt seem to be geared toward productivity.
Metisse, on the other hand, seems to be all about giving you quick access to the window you're looking for, and being able to store more windows on a single desktop.
oddly enough, the no-OS laptops dell is offering cost the same or more than the equivalents with Windows.:-/
i'm looking into getting a linux laptop, and the best deal seems to be to get a dell with windows and load linux onto it yourself (make sure you configure it with linux-friendly hardware, though).
is this article actually implying that web-sites decide whether or not to send you and updated file or assume you have the file cached based on the cookie? no, no sane web developer would do that.
yes, deleting your cookies may cause the server to user more resources (because it will have to add another row to it's "unique visitors" table in the database), but that is not "web traffic".
the only bandwidth i could possibly think of is that which is being used to specifically send the cookie to the client. and that's only going to happen when the client didnt send the cookie to the server. so a web site that requies everyone to have a cookie is going to have 1 cookie transaction for every request+response: either the client sending it or the server sending it.
it's the server sending the cookies, not the user. in fact, if the user is deleting the cookies then the HTTP request the user sends to the server is using less bandwidth. it's not my fault the server keeps sending me these god damn cookies.
this would be like UDP: there's no guaranteed data integrity. and vinyl is a pretty fragile medium. that's fine for analog, but for digital your "near CD quality" data wont stay that way forever.
years ago (around 1999) my family got to be a tester for a new (potential) satellite ISP. they gave us a free PC, stuck a satellite dish in the ground, and said "have fun."
it sucked. it wasnt reliable at all, and it was very slow. it was the same for everyone else. jackasses never removed the satellite dish either. i heard about one guy who took an axe to his just to get the damn thing out.
personally, i'd like to get rid of HTML completely and replace it with XHTML. i absolutely hate that some tags dont have to be closed in HTML. without some sort of outside knowledge of the HTML standard (e.g. by downloading the DTD), a parser cannot be expected to properly organize an HTML document.
here's an example:
<div> <br>hi <br>how are you? </div>
<ul> <li>hi <li>how are you? </ul>
without knowledge about HTML, a parser cannot be expected to understand in the first case that the <br> element is empty and in the second that the <li> element is not.
as long as you can see or hear it, the analog hole will always be there. worst case scenario: point a camera at the monitor and a microphone at the speakers.
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didnt sony already recall all of them? you mean there are still some ticking time bombs out there?
and once you capture the CO2, you can use it to make gasoline.
;-)
the only mascot i can think of that isnt on this list is Konqi.
and tux is not lame. them's fightin words.
but how can that be? the output of an experiment will be very different depending on when the wave function collapses. in the dual-slit, if it collapses before the slits you get two lines, and if it collapses after the slit you'll get an interference pattern. if the rock "observes" the photon before the slits, does the wave function collapse? if so, then what is it about the rock that can make the wave function collapse, when other solid objects (like a half-silvered mirror/glass in other quantum experiments) fail to collapse it?
what if you have two observers, one before and one after the slits, and they are completely out of contact? will the one after the slits see an interference pattern?
there's also the consciousness causes collapse theory, which is, granted, not as well received. while it certainly is more out there, it seems to me to be the theory with the fewest holes.
the CCC theory basically resolves and explains quantum mechanics, but it shifts the questions over to the topic of consciousness, which has yet to be understood at even a basic level.
you spent way too much time on this. move on, man.
A misnomer is a term which suggests an interpretation known not to be true.
FAIL!
he apparently was going to be making a general Direct X wrapper, including DX9, but changed it to only DX10, saying that Wine was already doing a good job with DX9 so there wasnt much of a point.
yup. from what i gather, many who entered the program are pissed because they payed $50 and have seen nothing come out of it yet. and this release seems to be nothing more than him trying to prove that he's actually working on it. it's not very functional.
i really hope he does succeed though. we really need something like this.
well, you're going to need those cards to run DX10 anyway.
i'm liking Metisse a lot. i only played with it a little, but it seemed to be actually useful eye candy. dont get me wrong, i like compiz/beryl, but it doesnt seem to be geared toward productivity.
Metisse, on the other hand, seems to be all about giving you quick access to the window you're looking for, and being able to store more windows on a single desktop.
from what i've heard, keeping a CD in the cdrom resolves this.
i think it was already banned by the FAA, for a long time. the FCC just recently banned them.
oddly enough, the no-OS laptops dell is offering cost the same or more than the equivalents with Windows. :-/
i'm looking into getting a linux laptop, and the best deal seems to be to get a dell with windows and load linux onto it yourself (make sure you configure it with linux-friendly hardware, though).
is this article actually implying that web-sites decide whether or not to send you and updated file or assume you have the file cached based on the cookie? no, no sane web developer would do that.
yes, deleting your cookies may cause the server to user more resources (because it will have to add another row to it's "unique visitors" table in the database), but that is not "web traffic".
the only bandwidth i could possibly think of is that which is being used to specifically send the cookie to the client. and that's only going to happen when the client didnt send the cookie to the server. so a web site that requies everyone to have a cookie is going to have 1 cookie transaction for every request+response: either the client sending it or the server sending it.
it's the server sending the cookies, not the user. in fact, if the user is deleting the cookies then the HTTP request the user sends to the server is using less bandwidth. it's not my fault the server keeps sending me these god damn cookies.
looks like that's a project in this year's Summer of Code for Wine: http://wiki.winehq.org/SummerOfCode (scroll to the bottom)
well then you're going to the wrong shows.
i can confirm that the underground punk scene is still huge on vinyl. an album that isnt available on vinyl is rare.
this would be like UDP: there's no guaranteed data integrity. and vinyl is a pretty fragile medium. that's fine for analog, but for digital your "near CD quality" data wont stay that way forever.
years ago (around 1999) my family got to be a tester for a new (potential) satellite ISP. they gave us a free PC, stuck a satellite dish in the ground, and said "have fun."
it sucked. it wasnt reliable at all, and it was very slow. it was the same for everyone else. jackasses never removed the satellite dish either. i heard about one guy who took an axe to his just to get the damn thing out.
considering IE7 doesnt even support XHTML yet, i wouldnt hold your breath.
here's an example: without knowledge about HTML, a parser cannot be expected to understand in the first case that the <br> element is empty and in the second that the <li> element is not.
as long as you can see or hear it, the analog hole will always be there. worst case scenario: point a camera at the monitor and a microphone at the speakers.